Wealth Management Tech Product Manager: Drive Growth

aresmgmt; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical benefits

Dental and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Flexible health accounts (FSA/HSA)

Job summary

Ares Management is seeking an Associate Vice President, Product Manager to partner with Wealth Management stakeholders and technology teams. You will translate business needs into scalable Salesforce-based solutions, shaping product roadmaps, and driving value across multiple platforms.

This role blends product management, business analysis, and platform expertise, with growth opportunities in a regulated financial services setting and exposure to AI-enabled productivity tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 6-9 years of relevant experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, Salesforce Administration, CRM, Consulting, or related technology roles.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with business stakeholders to define and deliver technology solutions.
• Strong experience gathering requirements, defining business processes, and translating business needs into actionable delivery plans.
• Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks and managing product backlogs.
• Salesforce Administrator Certification.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce Flow and other declarative platform capabilities.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence outcomes and build alignment across business and technology organizations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, operational challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support product roadmap planning, prioritization, and delivery activities for assigned business capabilities.
• Collaborate with product leadership to evaluate and prioritize initiatives based on business value, strategic alignment, effort, and risk.
• Develop a deep understanding of Wealth Management business processes, user needs, and technology capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, operational scale, and enhanced client and advisor experiences.
• Support business case development and help define success metrics for key initiatives.
• Track adoption and business outcomes for delivered capabilities and recommend future enhancements.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions, workshops, stakeholder interviews, and discovery activities.
• Document current-state and future-state business processes, workflows, and functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable backlog items.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and drive resolution of business and functional questions.
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to ensure proposed solutions align with business objectives.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing and validate delivered functionality against defined requirements.
• Maintain accurate documentation, process artifacts, and product knowledge.
• Partner with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle, including planning, design, testing, release, and adoption.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, release readiness, and deployment activities.
• Configure and maintain declarative Salesforce functionality including Flows, reports, dashboards, approval processes, page layouts, and related platform capabilities.
• Support platform governance, change management, and user adoption initiatives.
• Collaborate with data, integration, and engineering teams to ensure end-to-end solution effectiveness.
• Promote best practices across product management, business analysis, and solution delivery disciplines.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Build domain expertise and progressively assume broader ownership of business capabilities over time.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Wealth Management Technology product management function.
• Remain current on Salesforce capabilities, industry trends, and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools and productivity solutions.

Skills

Product Management

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Agile Delivery

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Salesforce Administrator Certification

Salesforce Business Analyst Certification

Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification

Tools

Copado

Jira

Git-based deployment

Job description

Ares Management is seeking an Associate Vice President, Product Manager to partner with Wealth Management stakeholders and technology teams. You will translate business needs into scalable Salesforce-based solutions, shaping product roadmaps, and driving value across multiple platforms.

This role blends product management, business analysis, and platform expertise, with growth opportunities in a regulated financial services setting and exposure to AI-enabled productivity tools.