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

2026 Summer Internship Program Application

Application Closes Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Eligibility and Responsibilities

Ares is currently searching for self-motivated, detail-oriented, astute individuals to join our summer intern program. We seek individuals with intellectual curiosity, a growth mindset, critical

thinking skills, initiative, and financial acumen. Below are the criteria we consider:

• Anticipated graduation date between December 2026 and August 2027

• Currently enrolled as an undergraduate student, ideally majoring in field related to Finance, Business Administration, or Economics

• Have a track record of academic excellence and participation in campus activities

• Knowledge of finance and accounting is a plus but not required. We are primarily looking for general aptitude and willingness to learn

• Superior oral and written communication skills

• Novice to intermediate Microsoft Excel skills

• Exceptional attention to detail and proven ability to multi-task

• Initiative and a strong entrepreneurial mindset

• The ability to research solutions and be a problem solver

• Looking to complete a 10-week summer internship

Participating Groups and Locations

PLEASE NOTE: You can only interview and end up interning with one of our business groups that participate in the summer intern program. As part of the application, we’ll ask for your business group preference as well as your location preference.

Please thoroughly review below for group descriptions and take note of their available location(s)

Commercial Finance (Tarrytown)

Ares Commercial Finance (ACF) leverages the scale and flexible capital of the Ares platform to provide innovative asset-based and cash flow solutions to small and middle-market companies, as well as asset-backed facilities to specialty finance companies. ACF is part of the Ares Credit Group, which as of December 31, 2024, had over $348.9 billion of assets under management. Our senior ACF investment professionals have on average over 23 years of experience in commercial finance and asset-based lending. Our team uses a combination of specialized credit and collateral monitoring to provide clients with flexibility and greater credit availability. ACF has the ability to structure and agent deals to support the growth and changing capital needs of its clients. Our asset-based lines of credit may be structured as working capital financing, bridge financing, turnaround financing, acquisition financing, debtor-in-possession financing and special accommodation financing.

Investor Relations (New York City)

Ares is currently searching for a highly motivated, meticulous teammate to join as an Intern in the Ares Investor Relations & Product Management teams. This individual will support the Investor Relations and Product Specialists focused in either Credit, Infrastructure, or Real Estate business to provide investor relations support, including written and oral communications with investors, market and competitor research and analysis.

Real Estate - Debt (Los Angeles)

Our real estate debt team directly originates and invests in a wide range of self-originated financing opportunities for owners and operators of U.S. commercial real estate. In addition to managing private funds, we make investments through a specialty finance company, ACRE, primarily focused on directly originating, managing and servicing a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate ("CRE") debt-related investments. Our Real Estate Debt team focuses on directly originating loans using its extensive national relationships with various owner-operators, sponsors and intermediaries of real estate properties. We seek to provide flexible financing across a potential borrower’s capital structure. While we focus on self-originated transactions, we will also selectively pursue secondary market acquisitions and club/syndicated transactions.

Quantitative Resource Group (New Yo