Ares Management

Alternative asset-management firm
Last updated:
January 23, 2026
Company details
HQ
Los Angeles, CA
HEADCOUNT
3000-9999
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Finance
About the company
Ares Management is a global alternative investment manager investing across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. Ares Management raises and manages funds for institutional and wealth clients and runs investment teams alongside business operations functions such as investor relations, finance, and technology. Ares Management operates across a multi-office global platform and hires across investing and non-investing roles. Early-career hiring is most visible through structured 10-week summer internships that can feed into analyst-level roles.
Locations and presence
Ares Management is headquartered in Los Angeles and lists 55+ global offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Recent internship postings are explicitly in-office for several locations, while Ares Management has also described limited-time flexible “work from anywhere” arrangements in company reporting, so day-to-day work mode varies by team.
Palpable Score
71.5
/ 100
Ares Management offers clear early-career access through recurring internship cohorts in the US and UK, plus a defined analyst and associate training setup that includes technical training and a formal mentor program. The score is capped by limited public outcomes data, since Ares Management does not publish internship conversion rates, early-tenure retention, or typical promotion timing for entry-level cohorts.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.5
/ 20
  • The company runs a recurring 10-week summer internship program and posts cohorts well ahead of time with stated application close dates and multiple participating business groups and locations.
  • Ares Management actively recruits for both US Summer Analyst hiring and a UK Summer Intern Programme, with public recruiting posts describing structured training, development sessions, and class-based programming.
  • The company states in sustainability disclosures that the US pipeline intern program is a key source of organic growth and is designed to evaluate undergraduates for potential full-time roles.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.0
/ 20
  • The company has public candidate reports describing a staged process that can include recruiter screens, technical interviews, and an assessment centre for intern hiring.
  • Ares Management also has public candidate reports describing multi-round “superday” style interviewing, but experiences vary and include complaints about delayed follow-up after later-stage interviews.
  • The company does not publish a role-by-role stage map, timelines, or feedback standards on the main careers pages, so transparency depends on recruiter communication and the specific team.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

17.0
/ 20
  • The company describes an Intern Training Program that includes upfront technical training, an internal speaker series, social and networking events, and a formal mentor program.
  • Ares Management also describes multi-week orientation for Analysts and Associates with technical training, business-specific training, professional development training, and continued professional development with senior-leader networking.
  • The company reports ongoing learning infrastructure through Workday Learning with external e-learning libraries, plus an Education Reimbursement Program that covers professional certifications and business-related courses.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.0
/ 20
  • The company lists concrete benefit categories on the careers site, including medical coverage, family planning benefits, retirement savings options with corporate matching, and financial wellness benefits.
  • Ares Management has third-party compensation benchmarks available for analysts and interns, but Ares Management does not consistently publish pay ranges directly in public early-career postings that are easy to verify across locations.
  • The company’s early-career roles are typically structured as paid professional internships and full-time roles in competitive finance functions, but compensation transparency remains uneven from the candidate point of view.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

12.0
/ 20
  • The company states that the analyst internship program can lead to full-time hire into the analyst program for interns who join between junior and senior year, which is a concrete conversion pathway even without a published rate.
  • Ares Management reports that 63% of interns receiving return analyst offers in 2023 identified as either female or from historically underrepresented groups, which is a measurable early-career pipeline outcome.
  • The company does not publish early-career cohort outcomes such as internship-to-offer conversion rates, first-two-years retention, or typical time-to-promotion, limiting verification of longer-run early-career progression.

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