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.

Job Description

Ares Management is currently seeking an Associate Vice President of Cybersecurity Engineering to join the Cybersecurity team in our New York office. The IT group consists of over 280 team members globally and is responsible for the firm’s technology landscape. The Cybersecurity team within IT oversees and manages Ares’ global information security governance, controls engineering, and operations.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about data and information security, architecting and engineering solutions to security challenges, and dealing with the latest threats. This position will require program build and thought leadership in enterprise data security, as well as hands-on experience engineering innovative solutions in the cybersecurity control space. The candidate must interact with various IT functions to properly design solutions that balance business enablement with security. This role will work closely with other members of the Cybersecurity and Information Technology teams, as well as with stakeholders across the business.

Primary functions and essential responsibilities

• Architect and lead a data security program, with engineering and implementation support from others on the cybersecurity engineering team.
• Design, build, and maintain a secure environment that optimally enables our business needs while reducing risk and ensuring compliance with industry and regulatory standards.
• Investigate environment to understand business needs and technical constraints
• Document data and technical security control objective, design, implementation, and maintenance
• Recommend iterative improvements to environment and processes
• Deliver projects on time and within budget

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical subject (e.g., Computer Science or Information Technology); or equivalent professional experience

Experience Required:

• 10+ years of professional experience working directly with enterprise cybersecurity teams; preferred experience working with teams focused on meeting regulatory obligations in financial services sector
• Professional experience designing and building a technical program, ideally in data security
• Record of direct responsibility for delivering cybersecurity controls to enable business processes
• Record of working collaboratively with other engineers to deliver against a strategic vision
• Professional experience creating automations (e.g., PowerShell scripts) to facilitate responsibilities
• Professional experience with data security platforms and tools

General Requirements:

• Strong communicator; able to translate business requirements into technical controls and explain the control lifecycle verbally and through documentation to a non-technical audience
• Thought leadership; able to contribute meaningfully to a strategic program vision and own the program that delivers against that vision
• Team player; able to give and receive constructive feedback as part of team collaboration
• Self-starter; able to identify impactful work and execute with minimal supervision
• Timely; delivers work before deadline without micromanagement
• Adaptable; gets focused and delivers when faced with uncertainty or unexpected situations
• Interest in cybersecurity and data security; continually learning about the practice of cybersecurity

Reporting Relationships

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.

$200,000 - $225,000

The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include 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.

Ares offers a number of additional benefits including 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.

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.