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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.\nJob Description\nSummary\nAres is seeking a Quantitative Productleadto help define and deliver the product strategy for quantitative investmenttechnologyacross the firm's global investment platform.\nThe role sits within Investment Technology Product Management and serves as the product liaison to Ares' global quantitative teams, includingAres' Quantitative Researchteams,recognizing that these teams have distinct investment objectives, research methods, tooling requirements, and coverage across a diverse universe of assets, funds, portfolios, andothersecurities.\nInaddition to supporting the quant groups directly, the role will act as a catalyst for extending relevant quantitative tools, techniques, data practices, and analytical capabilities into other Ares asset classes and business lines. The individual willidentifywhere proven approaches can be adapted and scaled horizontally, helping embed the quant teams more deeply into the wider organization and increasing the contribution ofthese functionsto investment decision-making across the firm.\nThe Quantitative Productleadwill own product activities from workflow discovery and use-case definition through prioritization, solution design, delivery, adoption, and value realization. The role will assess the process, data, model, and application landscape; distinguish common capabilities from strategy-specific requirements; anddeterminewhen solutions should be built, bought, reused,or adapted across teams.\nThe successful candidate will combine strong product judgment with sufficient quantitative and technical depth to understand models, data dependencies, investment context, and to work effectively with quantitative engineers and investment professionals.\nPrimary Functions&Responsibilities\nQuantitative Product Strategy & Roadmap\nDefine andmaintainthe product strategy and roadmap for quantitative investment capabilities, aligned with business priorities and the broader Investment Technology architecture.\n\nTranslate the distinctobjectivesofQuantitative groupsinto sequenced product themes, clear outcomes, andan appropriate balanceof shared and strategy-specific capabilities.\n\nMake evidence-based build, buy, reuse, adapt, and retire recommendations in partnership with investment teams, engineering, architecture, and Data & AI.\n\nWorkflow Discovery & Use-Case Development\nMap end-to-end workflows across research, data acquisition, signal generation, scenario analysis, portfolio construction, execution support, monitoring, and performance feedback.\n\nDevelop well-structured use cases and product requirements covering the decision supported, users, data, value, risks, dependencies, controls, and adoption path.\n\nPrioritize opportunities through the firm's intake process based on strategic alignment, value, scalability, technical and data readiness, risk, and organizational readiness.\n\nQuantitativeDomainDevelopment\nShape products supporting returns forecasting, liquidity and cash-flow management, hedging andportfoliooptimization, risk-adjustedassetallocation, predictive signals, portfolio construction, and monitoring.\n\nDefine requirements for scalable ingestion and use ofprivate/public company,market, reference, alternative, portfolio, and third-party datasets.\n\nBuild connections between quantitative teams and the wider firm, enabling knowledge transfer, common standards, and greater reuse of institutionalexpertise.\n\nProduct Delivery, Adoption & Value\nChampion a user-centric product approach, ensuring quant capabilities are designed around investor workflows and provide measurable improvements to investment decision-making.\n\nPartner with Quantitative Engineering and other technology teams to move solutions from hypothesis and pilot into scalable, resilient, and maintainable products/services.\n\nEstablish adoption plans with business sponsors anddefine and track measures such as decision-cycle time, research throughput, model or component reuse, forecast quality, adoption, control effectiveness, and business value.\n\nGovernance, Partnership & Culture\nCoordinate with Data & AI, architecture, cyber, infrastructure, risk, operations, legal, compliance, and vendor teams where products depend on shared platforms or require specialist review.\n\nRepresent quantitative product priorities in Investment Technology, Data & AI, and use-case governance forums, providing transparent rationale for roadmap and investment decisions.\n\nBuild trusted relationships withinvestment team members, quantitative engineers, risk professionals, and operations teams across regions.\n\nEducation & Qualifications:\nBachelor's degreerequired; 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