SVP, Senior Engineering Manager - Institutional

Ares Management Corporation•New York, NY

3d•$225,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Ares is seeking a senior vice-president to serve as a Senior Engineering Manager within the firm’s institutional business. This role will partner with business and technology leadership along with product manager, technical architects, and user experience designers to define and deliver platforms supporting the full lifecycle of institutional investor engagement—from prospecting and fundraising (sales, sales enablement, marketing) through fund launch, investor onboarding and post-close investor relationship management. Reporting to the Head of Institutional and Wealth Engineering, the successful candidate will serve as the senior technology owner for the firm’s institutional CRM ecosystem, partnering closely with engineering teams in Wealth Management and Analytics Technology, Global Client Solutions, Investor Relations, Capital Formation, Client Operations, and Marketing teams across Institutional and Wealth/Retail channels to deliver a highly scalable and integrated platform that powers fundraising and client engagement. This role will also have a deep focus on the Fund Lifecycle, from Fund Launch through maintenance and wind down. In partnership with the business team responsible for Fund Management, the leader will have the opportunity to integrate teams and processes across the firm to bring transparency, rigor, and predictability to the fund launch and management activities. This role is a hands-on technology leader responsible for developing and leading a high-performing team of developers, and product managers. This person will support complex alternatives fundraising workflows, institutional client management, pipeline visibility, and data-driven investor engagement across the global platform. The successful candidate brings expertise in engineering within asset management or alternatives firms, combined with an understanding of institutional fundraising processes, investor relationship management, and enterprise CRM data platforms. This role requires a leader who can balance platform engineering rigor, enterprise CRM data platforms. This role requires a leader who can balance platform engineering rigor, business partnership, and long-term platform strategy with incremental delivery of business value, ensuring that the ecosystem becomes a durable and scalable foundation for Ares’ institutional distribution capabilities.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive technology experience with leadership responsibility in enterprise application development.
Experience implementing and operating Salesforce platforms within asset management, alternatives, or financial services firms.
Familiarity with institutional fundraising and investor relationship workflows within asset management.
Proven experience leading teams of developers, and analysts.
Demonstrated success building scalable CRM platforms supporting complex global distribution organizations.
Experience integrating CRM platforms with data platforms, analytics systems, marketing tools, and client engagement platforms.
Familiarity with data platforms, analytics environments, and data science capabilities supporting advisor segmentation and sales insights.
Strong appreciation for data governance, security, and regulatory requirements in financial services.
Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred.
Background in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the firm’s institutional client relationship and fund management platforms, including the system of record for institutional investor engagement and fundraising activity.
Partner closely with Global Client Solutions, Investor Relations, Capital Formation, and Marketing leadership to transform institutional distribution priorities into scalable capabilities.
Support the institutional lifecycle including: Prospecting and pipeline development, Fundraising campaign management, Investor targeting and engagement, Fund marketing and opportunity tracking, Fund launch, maintenance and wind down.
Serve as the senior technology lead for the institutional business’ Salesforce platform.
Partner with the salesforce architect to ensure scalability, reliability, and alignment with enterprise technology standards.
Lead the design and development of Salesforce capabilities supporting complex alternatives fundraising workflows, including: Investor pipeline management, Opportunity and fundraising tracking, Investor relationship management, Capital commitments and allocation workflows, Fundraising reporting and analytics.
Ensure the Salesforce ecosystem integrates seamlessly with data platforms.
Ensure the CRM platform provides end-to-end transparency into investor engagement and fundraising performance.
Define the data architecture and governance model for institutional CRM data, ensuring high-quality, trusted data across investor and fundraising workflows.
Partner closely with Data & AI teams to ensure CRM data integrates with enterprise data platforms and analytics environments.
Ensure seamless integration across key enterprise platforms including: Marketing automation and campaign management tools, Client reporting platforms, Investor portals, Data warehouses and analytics environments.
Lead the definition and delivery of a Platform supporting Fund Launch, Maintenance and wind down.
Parter with platform teams and application development teams to integrate with all downstream teams and processes involved in the fund lifecycle.
Design and deliver systems to model and collect and manage data and documents related to fund launch and management.
Partner with platform engineering and architecture teams to ensure technology platforms are scalable, secure, and integrated with enterprise systems.
Follow modern development practices including: CI/CD for Salesforce development, Automated testing and release management, Platform observability and monitoring, Vendor and package governance, Agile program management, including data-driven improvements to SDLC.
Drive modern platform architecture supporting: Cloud-native applications, API-based integration, Data-driven distribution platforms, Secure advisor and client data environments.
Partner with the Data and Artificial Intelligence team to stay abreast of the evolving AI landscape, appropriately identifying and leveraging solutions that will enhance developer productivity and business outcomes.
Build and lead a high-performing team of architects, developers, product managers and business analysts to support the firms institutional business.
Become a trusted partner and collaborator with senior business leaders across Global Client Solutions, Investor Relations, Client Operations, and Marketing teams.
Foster a culture of engineering excellence, platform ownership, and continuous improvement.
Act as a senior technology leader represent CRM platform priorities within broader enterprise technology governance forums.
Align technology strategy, platforms, and deliverables to business outcomes.
Manage relationships with software and consulting vendors.