Editorial Director

Position Overview

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

Come to Apollo and join a community of extraordinary people who are committed to a culture of excellence and collaboration in everything that we do. We invest in our people for the long term and are committed to supporting their development at every stage of their career.

Primary Responsibilities

Apollo is building out its editorial operation to help the world better understand the evolution of markets, what the firm does, how it thinks, how it operates, and the impact it has on economies, businesses, investors and individuals. This role helps lead that effort as part of the Corporate Communications team, which oversees all communications, brand and corporate marketing activities globally.

• Lead Apollo’s corporate editorial operation, writing, editing and publishing data-driven insights, compelling storytelling and shaping original research. Must be able to explain what the firm does, how we think, the evolution of markets, and the context behind where things are headed, for the firm’s internal and external digital channels and beyond
• Establish and maintain editorial processes, guidelines, and standards that enable consistent, high-quality output
• Draft story concepts and lead production with internal teams, external agencies across articles, infographics, explainers, audio, video and other creative formats
• Build and steward a modern editorial operation and calendar that functions at the pace of a newsroom to ensure the right stories get told at the right moment and that editorial supports franchise positioning, “direction of travel” and business objectives. Set the production and intellectual standard for everything that carries Apollo’s name
• Manage editorial calendar aligning with market events, economic developments, and key business priorities
• Run a live editorial operation: identify moments to connect Apollo’s investments, thinking and leadership to current events, and move decisively to capitalize on them

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years in financial or business journalism or in a senior editorial role at an institution with genuine intellectual authority, a major publication, research institution or financial firm with serious thought leadership operation
• Deep fluency in capital markets, private capital and investments, with expertise spanning both credit and equity
• Instinctive story-spotter who can move at newsroom-speed without sacrificing quality or accuracy
• Demonstrates a flexible and adaptable work style, responding quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines
• Fluent editor across formats (written, visual, audio)
• Ability to distill complex financial and business concepts into clear, compelling narratives
• Modern, creative and highly collaborative with a franchise-first mindset
• Meticulous attention to detail; high editorial standards across every format

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

Pay Range

$215,000 – $300,000

Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.

The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.

The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.