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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\nAres is seeking a high-performing Senior Associate who supports the Executive Office transformation agenda by managing the details of complex cross-functional programs - workplans, milestones, dependencies, governance materials, stakeholder coordination, business process documentation, and change readiness - while building fluency across alternative investment lifecycles, technology-enabled transformation, and enterprise operating model change.\nThe Operational Strategy Group supports the Executive Office and serves as the enterprise control tower and nerve center for the firm’s highest-priority transformations bringing together strategy, execution oversight, assurance, and cross-functional delivery to ensure these initiatives move in a coordinated, disciplined, and value-focused way. The team manages complexity across the targeted transformation portfolio, keeps priority programs on track, surface dependencies and risks early, and drive clear decision-making at the executive level. Positioned close to the Executive Office, the team executes enterprise programs across all Ares’ lines of business (Credit, Private Equity, Real Assets, and Secondaries) as well as technology, legal, compliance, finance, Sales/Marketing and other functional groups, ensuring that the firm’s most operationally critical initiatives are aligned to enterprise priorities, sequenced effectively, and delivering measurable value.\nReporting relationships\nManaging Director, Corporate Strategy - Operational Strategy Group\nServe as an internal consulting and execution partner to business leaders, corporate functions, and third-party providers.\n\nTranslate high-level objectives into structured workplans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.\n\nCoordinate transformation initiatives by tracking scope, status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and stakeholder alignment.\n\nSupport business case development, including current-state challenges, future-state vision, benefits, risks, implementation approach, and decision points.\n\nSynthesize complex information into clear recommendations for process, operating model, system, or organizational changes.\n\nPartner with business and functional teams to document future-state operating models, including roles, governance, process ownership, controls, and technology enablement.\n\nPrepare executive-ready materials for senior leaders, steering committees, process owners, and cross-functional stakeholders.\n\nSupport change adoption through stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness planning, and post-implementation tracking.\n\nManage detailed project execution across workstreams, including milestones, ownership, timelines, dependencies, escalation paths, and delivery risks.\n\nIdentify upstream and downstream impacts across processes, systems, teams, and operating models to support effective planning and implementation.\n\nIdentify opportunities to improve cross-team workflows and handoffs across functions, simplifying processes, strengthening controls, enhancing system connectivity, and improving operational scalability.\n\nSupport implementation of new products, platforms, processes, and operating model changes in partnership with business, Technology, and functional teams.\n\nHelp translate business objectives and operational requirements into clear deliverables for Technology teams, while communicating technical considerations back to business stakeholders.\n\nProvide hands-on project management support across transformation initiatives, including roadmap development, governance setup, ROI and benefits tracking, requirements documentation, process mapping, UAT, readiness, training, and status reporting.\n\nMaintain disciplined program governance, including RAID logs, milestone trackers, decision logs, executive escalation materials, and benefits realization tracking.\n\nQualifications\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree in a business, finance, or related discipline\nExperience Required:\n5-7 years of experience in financial services, asset management, management consulting, business operations, transformation, project management, business analysis, process improvement, or technology-enabled change.\n\nExperience supporting complex, cross-functional projects involving business, Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Investor Relations / Sales and Marketing, and/or external vendors.\n\nStrong project management skills, including experience maintaining workplans, timelines, milestone trackers, RAID logs, dependency maps, decision logs, status reports, and meeting materials.\n\nExperience analyzing and documenting business processes, workflows, systems, controls, requirements, and operating model considerations.\n\nFamiliarity with alternative investments, including Credit, Private Equity, Real Assets, and Secondaries, with exposure to fund, investor/client, deal, portfolio, or investment lifecycles preferred.\n\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to organize ambiguous information, identify key issues, and synthesize clear findings, recommendations, and next steps.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear, polished materials for senior stakeholders.\n\nHighly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive, with the ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines, risks, dependencies, and follow-ups in a fast-paced environment.\n\nStrong technical skills, including proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio; experience with project or collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Asana, Monday.com, Miro, or similar platforms preferred.\n\nFamiliarity with one or more transformation domains is a plus, including client experience and investor transformation, deal pipeline management, allocation and investment workflow transformation, and treasury, banking, or liquidity operations transformation.\n\nReporting Relationships\nCompensation\nThe anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.\n$150,000 - $170,000\nThe firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.\nAres offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.\nThere is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. 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