Product Manager, Quantitative Product

Primary Functions & Responsibilities

• Quantitative Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and maintain the product strategy and roadmap for quantitative investment capabilities, aligned with business priorities and the broader Investment Technology architecture. Translate the distinct objectives of Quantitative groups into sequenced product themes, clear outcomes, and an appropriate balance of shared and strategy-specific capabilities. Make evidence-based build, buy, reuse, adapt, and retire recommendations in partnership with investment teams, engineering, architecture, and Data & AI.
• Workflow Discovery & Use-Case Development: Map end-to-end workflows across research, data acquisition, signal generation, scenario analysis, portfolio construction, execution support, monitoring, and performance feedback. Develop well-structured use cases and product requirements covering the decision supported, users, data, value, risks, dependencies, controls, and adoption path. Prioritise opportunities through the firm's intake process based on strategic alignment, value, scalability, technical and data readiness, risk, and organisational readiness.
• Quantitative Domain Development: Shape products supporting returns forecasting, liquidity and cash-flow management, hedging and portfolio optimisation, risk-adjusted asset allocation, predictive signals, portfolio construction, and monitoring. Define requirements for scalable ingestion and use of private/public company, market, reference, alternative, portfolio, and third-party datasets. Build connections between quantitative teams and the wider firm, enabling knowledge transfer, common standards, and greater reuse of institutional expertise.
• Product Delivery, Adoption & Value: Champion a user-centric product approach, ensuring quant capabilities are designed around investor workflows and provide measurable improvements to investment decision-making. Partner with Quantitative Engineering and other technology teams to move solutions from hypothesis and pilot into scalable, resilient, and maintainable products/services. Establish adoption plans with business sponsors and define and track measures such as decision-cycle time, research throughput, model or component reuse, forecast quality, adoption, control effectiveness, and business value.
• Governance, Partnership & Culture: Coordinate with Data & AI, architecture, cyber, infrastructure, risk, operations, legal, compliance, and vendor teams where products depend on shared platforms or require specialist review. Represent quantitative product priorities in Investment Technology, Data & AI, and use-case governance forums, providing transparent rationale for roadmap and investment decisions. Build trusted relationships with investment team members, quantitative engineers, risk professionals, and operations teams across regions.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, economics, operations research, physics, or finance strongly preferred.
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CFA, FRM, CQF, or equivalent are advantageous but not required.

Experience Required

• Demonstrated experience contributing to or owning products and platforms used by investment professionals for research, portfolio construction, risk, forecasting, execution support, or portfolio monitoring.
• Strong product management capability across discovery, process design, roadmap development, prioritisation, requirements, agile delivery, testing, launch, adoption, and measurement.

General Requirements

• 5-8 years of relevant experience across product management, quantitative investing, investment technology, data products, business analysis, or quantitative engineering within an asset manager, alternative investment firm, investment bank, or financial technology organisation.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to simplify complex quantitative topics for senior stakeholders and make clear recommendations under uncertainty.
• High degree of ownership, judgement, curiosity, and comfort operating in an evolving global product organisation and liaising with quantitative teams that have distinct objectives and working practices.
• Collaborative and low-ego working style, with the confidence to challenge constructively and drive decisions across multidisciplinary teams.

Reporting Relationships

• Global Head of Investment Technology

Over the last 20 years, Ares success has been driven by our people and our culture. 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.

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles.

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