Ares Management Tech Stack
Global alternative asset manager with $644B AUM across credit, PE, real estate, and infrastructure
Ares Management is a publicly traded alternative investment firm managing $644 billion across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. The tech stack reveals a finance-operations hybrid: BI and modeling tools (Power BI, Tableau, Anaplan) dominate, paired with enterprise resource planning (Oracle Fusion), workflow automation (Appian, Pega), and modern application development (Python, Java, TypeScript, React). Active hiring in finance and legal roles vastly outpaces engineering and product, reflecting a deal-heavy organization scaling back-office and compliance functions rather than product velocity—a pattern consistent with their pain-point focus on vendor discipline, reconciliation errors, and investor operations centralization.
Tech Stack 98 technologies
What Ares Management Is Building
◆Challenges
- Improving team efficiency
- Centralizing investor operations
- Improving vendor mix cost discipline
- Streamlining rfp processes
- Reducing reconciliation errors
- M&a integration
- Information flow efficiency
- Brand consistency across sub-brands
- Occupancy targets across operating platforms
- Integrating disparate real estate platforms
▲Active Projects
- Gc dashboard
- Vendor scorecard development
- Launch investment platforms
- Budgeting and forecasting integration
- Launch of new operating brands
- Enhancing portfolio monitoring and risk management
- Marketing strategy and due diligence materials
- New india office buildout
- Off hours testing
- Contract lifecycle management
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Head of Marketing, Head of Credit Technology, Head of Creative, Engineering Lead, Global Head of Talent