Client Platforms Project Manager

Role Overview

Ares is seeking a Vice‑President to serve as Senior Project Manager within Client Platforms, the engineering team responsible for all client‑facing systems within Ares, including Sales, Marketing, Client Reporting, and Digital/Web platforms.

Reporting to the Principal, Head of Institutional and Retail Client Platforms, this leader is responsible for the successful delivery of complex, cross‑functional technology initiatives. The role serves as the central point of coordination across engineering, architecture, product, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure strategic initiatives are delivered on time, within scope and with complete transparency.

Reports to:

Principal, Head of Institutional and Client Platforms

Supervises:
All client platform project managers

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple concurrent technology initiatives.
• Drive accountability for commitments and proactively resolve blockers.
• Facilitate governance forums, steering committees, and decision‑making processes.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestones, and delivery schedules.
• Manage all cross‑team and intra‑team dependencies to ensure coordinated execution.
• Identify, assess, communicate, and mitigate delivery risks, issues, assumptions, and constraints.
• Provide concise executive‑level status reporting, including schedule, scope, budget, risks, and delivery confidence.
• Champion Agile methodologies and promote Agile ceremonies to ensure effective backlog, sprint, and release planning, while applying hybrid delivery approaches where appropriate.
• Promote continuous improvement through lessons learned and delivery metrics.

• 8+ years of experience managing complex enterprise technology projects or programs.
• Demonstrated success leading large, cross‑functional initiatives in matrixed organizations.
• Deep understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and project management best practices.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with proactive risk management.
• Experience presenting to senior executives and running steering committees.
• Experience with in asset management, financial services, or capital markets preferred.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops, Microsoft Project, or similar tools preferred.

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Salary range: $200,000 – $235,000 per year. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance‑based bonus.

Ares U.S. Core Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k) program with company match;
Flexible Savings Accounts;
Healthcare Savings Accounts with company contribution; basic and voluntary life insurance; long‑term and short‑term disability insurance; employee assistance program; commuter benefits plan for parking and transit.

Additional benefits: access to a world‑class medical advisory team, mental health app with coaching, therapy and psychiatry, mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and more.

Ares Management LLC (together with its related operating and administrative subsidiaries, “Ares Management”) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, sex, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, status regarding public assistance, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, gender identity and expression, transgender status, genetic information, status as unemployed, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Ares Management will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.