Product Lead, Compliance Systems

Overview

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Ares is seeking a Product Lead, Compliance Systems to join Corporate Technology, reporting to the Head of Legal Risk and Compliance Product (who reports to the Head of Corporate Technology). This role will shape and execute the product strategy and roadmap for enterprise risk capabilities
, investment compliance enablement
, and the integration and data layer that connects Legal, Risk, and Compliance (LRC) platforms with each other and with broader enterprise systems.

The ideal candidate is a strong product leader with experience in regulated financial services (alternatives preferred) who can operate as a strategic partner to business stakeholders while driving hands-on execution with technology teams. This role requires a proactive mindset to identify control and process improvement opportunities, define scalable product capabilities, and ensure platforms and integrations are designed for reliability, auditability, and long-term maintainability.

The Product Lead will own the product lifecycle—from discovery and design through implementation and post-launch support—while coordinating across product owners, engineering, enterprise architecture, security, data/integration teams, and external vendors.

Experience with
low-code platforms (ideally Pega
) is strongly preferred.

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for enterprise risk, investment compliance enablement, and LRC platform integrations, aligning priorities with business outcomes, control effectiveness, and Corporate Technology direction.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities across enterprise risk and investment compliance domains (e.g., trade/transaction compliance controls, surveillance/monitoring, approvals, attestations, exception management, reporting transparency) and translate them into measurable product outcomes.
• Provide subject matter leadership for trade and transaction compliance processes, including understanding of pre-/post-trade controls, restricted/watch list considerations, and control evidence needs.
• Bring familiarity with control room capabilities and workflows (e.g., information barrier processes, restricted list governance, wall-crossing support, monitoring/attestations), ensuring solutions are designed for effectiveness and auditability.
• Serve as the “keeper and communicator of the vision,” translating product strategy into actionable roadmaps, milestones, and outcomes across delivery teams.
• Lead discovery and definition activities: process mapping, end-user journey mapping, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization—using tools such as Lucidchart to drive alignment and clarity.
• Drive delivery across the full product lifecycle: solution design coordination, build oversight, testing/UAT, release management, change management, training, adoption tracking, and post-launch support.
• Define and govern integration and data patterns across LRC platforms and enterprise systems—partnering with integration and data teams to ensure consistent, supportable approaches (APIs, eventing, middleware, batch), strong monitoring, and clear operational ownership.
• Establish a strong point of view on risk and compliance data: data definitions, lineage, reconciliation controls, reporting needs, and how data should be structured to support auditability and effective oversight.
• Coordinate cross-platform dependencies and sequencing with other LRC product owners and platform teams to ensure end-to-end process outcomes (not just system-by-system…