Principal, Operational Strategy

Ares Management is seeking a versatile and highly motivated Principal to join the Corporate Strategy Operational Strategy Group. This team brings best-in-class execution discipline and program management rigor to the firm's most critical transformation initiatives, including M&A integration master planning, enterprise operating model evolution, corporate efficiency efforts, and governance support for senior leadership forums.

The Operational Strategy Group supports the Executive Office and serves as the enterprise control tower for the firm's highest-priority transformations, bringing together strategy, execution oversight, assurance, and cross-functional delivery. The team manages complexity across the transformation portfolio, keeps priority programs on track, surfaces dependencies and risks early, and drives clear decision-making at the executive level.

The team works across all of Ares' lines of business including Credit, Private Equity, Real Assets, and Secondaries as well as technology, legal, finance, and operations. Over the last 20 years, Ares' success has been driven by its people and culture, guided by core values of Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, and Trustworthy. The firm manages over $400 billion in assets under management across diversified credit, real assets, private equity, and secondaries strategies.