Summer Associate, Product Management

Position: 2026 Summer Associate, Product Management
Position Overview

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth.

Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

The Client & Product Solutions (CPS) team leads the marketing & fundraising efforts for the firm's equity, credit and real assets offerings. Within CPS, the product management team is chiefly responsible for developing and managing investment products and other strategic projects across the firm. This includes driving fundraising strategy and strategic business initiatives serving as a client facing asset class specialists, drafting investor communications and thought leadership, responding to and managing investor requests and launching new products/initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

At Apollo, we work as one team, partnering across regions and disciplines to share the perspectives and insights that lead us to exceptional opportunities. Successful product associates combine people skills, project management, and client-facing capabilities with strong technical knowledge of markets and investments. You'll partner with junior and senior level professionals on a range of projects across departments and asset classes.

As a Product Management Summer Associate, you will be expected to:

• Own client facing collateral, including fund- and investor-specific presentations, white papers, annual meeting decks, quarterly reports, and conference presentations.
• Work closely with investment professionals, sales, finance, compliance, and legal teams to deepen understanding of alternative asset classes, fund structures, and investor objectives.
• Involved in the design, development, launch and subsequent fundraising processes of new investment products
• Develop and communicate in-depth investment knowledge to sales professionals and other members of the marketing team to support the growth of existing and new products.
• Assist senior executives with strategic business projects and firmwide initiatives, preparing high-quality materials that distill complex data and insights into clear narratives to support decision-making, investor communications, and long-term product strategy
• Analyze large data sets to create new content, prepare tailored investor responses, and support regular reporting requirements (monthly, quarterly).
• Create responses for investor requests, including DDQs, data templates, fund and firm investment updates, and other inquiries.
• Analyze the competitive landscape for current and potential fund offerings to inform strategy and positioning.
• Serve as a mentor and role model to junior talent
• Discreetly handle sensitive and confidential information as part of daily responsibilities.

Our Summer Program

Apollo's 10-week Summer Program provides full immersion into small, dynamic teams that drive the firm's innovative investment strategies, with access to unparalleled learning opportunities and mentorship. Interns in CPS will be based in New York City, with potential full-time roles offered in New York City, El Segundo, or Miami.

Our Purpose and Core Values

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

• The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.
• The leading provider of capital solutions to companies, with a unique ability to partner at scale and deliver thoughtful, dedicated guidance.
• A contributor to global challenges-such as energy transition, technological innovation, and social impact-using investment as a force for good.

AS"ONE APOLLO" WE:

• Outperform expectations
• Challenge convention
• Champion opportunity
• Lead responsibly
• Drive collaboration

We believe great work and having fun go hand-in-hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

Qualifications & Experience

• Pursuing an MBA or JD/MBA (Class of 2027) with excellent academic credentials and a demonstrated interest in finance through coursework, internships, and/or prior roles.
• At least two years of prior related work experience; experience in investment banking, alternative asset management, or investor relations preferred.
• Strong analytical and…