Associate, Graphics - Presentations Specialist

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

To succeed in this role, the Presentation Specialist must possess strong interpersonal skills, be a conceptual thinker, creative, eloquent and can understand and convey a variety of concepts. Outstanding execution and organization skills combined with excellent judgment and outstanding ethics and values are imperative. Under supervision, the Presentation Specialist will provide leverage across the following responsibilities:

• Assist investment professionals with formatting, design and visual presentation aspects of marketing materials and presentations in conformance with firm branding standards. This includes but is not limited to PowerPoint decks, white papers, factsheets, RFPs, advertisements and newsletters.
• Provide support with other dynamic content and graphics-intensive initiatives such as logos, employee photos and special conceptual design projects
• The Presentation Specialist provides ongoing support to the Senior Website Designer on website imagery and design improvements as well as content edits (CMS, HTML) for all Ares websites.
• Provide backup assistance for the Creative Solutions Lead Coordinator with the work requests queue and additional workflow coordination.
• The Presentation Specialist may, over time, additionally provide support on other dynamic content and graphics-intensive initiatives, such as podcasts, animation and videos.