Vice President, Partner Engagement (Private Wealth Partnerships)

Partner Engagement

Ares Wealth Management Solutions (AWMS) oversees the product development, distribution, marketing, and client management activities of investment offerings for the global wealth management channel. With a team of more than 140 professionals and backed by the power and scale of the Ares platform, AWMS represents one of the most resourced wealth distribution and client service teams in the alternatives industry. AWMS' mission is to provide advisors and their clients access to innovative, solutions-oriented investment opportunities, across the Ares platform of industry leading credit, private equity, real estate, and secondaries strategies. Through our range of institutional and retail structures, coupled with excellent client service and educational resources, we help investors diversify their portfolios with private market solutions that can deliver consistent, long-term growth.

The Partner Engagement role is a key member of the Ares Wealth Management Solutions (AWMS) Private Wealth Partnerships team (PWP). PWP manages strategic relationships with AWMS' largest partner firms, including Private Banks, Wirehouses, Independent Broker-Dealers, and Fintech platforms.

This individual will collaborate across Ares business units to align and optimize marketing initiatives tailored to these strategic partner audiences. The role is responsible for identifying new opportunities and enhancing engagement through targeted product marketing, brand amplification, product launches, partner-hosted events, and expanded access to educational resourcesall in support of fundraising and business development goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Partner with the broader PWP team & Marketing to help design and execute partner-firm specific marketing campaigns (ex : launch & ongoing partner-specific campaigns)
• Manage rules of engagement with partner firms. Establish workflow processes to manage the distribution of marketing engagements. Own the submission & approval processes of educational & sales literature with partner firms. Liaise with product & channel marketing on customizing partner firm materials.
• In partnership with the Channel and Product Marketing team, ensure partner marketing deliverables are in-line with the broader AWMS marketing strategy. Track and evaluate program effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on those findings, make recommendations on optimizing performance and troubleshooting; define new processes and workflows as needed.
• Interface with key Wirehouse & IBD clients to identify new opportunities to deepen advisor engagement and increase Ares' brand awareness through personalized and innovative tactics and multi-media campaigns.
• Support the development of new content in partnership with marketing, sales, private wealth partnerships, and product stakeholders. Be responsible for crafting key partner-specific marketing campaign messages, including post-event call to action messaging, to help drive engagement & product sales.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Reporting Relationships : Principal, Private Wealth Partnerships

Compensation : $180,000 - $210,000

The firm also offers robust benefits including 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.

Additional Benefits : 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.