ARK Investment Management Is Hiring:
Global Investor Relations Coordinator
Who We Are
ARK is a global investment manager focused solely on investing in disruptive innovation that is changing the way the world works. Majority Owner, Catherine D. Wood, founded ARK in 2014 on the belief that innovation is key to growth. Rooted in over 40 years of experience, ARK aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public and private markets resulting from technological innovations centered around genome sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. We invest in the leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of disruptive innovation.
ARK manages and sub advises long-only global equity and digital asset portfolios across a variety of investment vehicles, including a suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs), a venture fund, mutual funds, and separately managed accounts. Our investments are backed by an open research ecosystem designed to identify innovations with the potential for long-term growth. ARK has greater than $20 billion assets under management.
ARK is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all employees and strives to maintain an environment free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, or any other protected category or characteristics as defined by federal, state, or local laws. If you want to learn more, please visit our “Philosophy” page to understand how ARK differs from traditional investment firms. We also encourage you to meet the ARK team and follow us on X.
*This is a Full-Time position based in our St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.
What You Will Do
ARK Investment Management is seeking a highly organised and commercially minded Global Investor Relations Coordinator to join our expanding global Distribution team. Based at ARK’s US headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, this is a pivotal role that will sit at the heart of our global sales machine.
The successful candidate will provide close support to the Global Head of Distribution with various matters related to the build out of ARK Invest’s global distribution capabilities including owning the end-to-end coordination of ARK’s investor road show programme — a rolling, multi-region calendar of investor roundtables and presentations designed to raise the profile of ARK’s funds and drive asset growth, support with the buildout of ARK Invest’s CRM system and network of client relationships alongside ARK’s internal sales team in Europe and the USA, support with proposals for large prospective investors/clients.
As part of this role, you would work closely with ARK’s own sales team (based in Europe and, in the future, USA too) and ARK’s external sales teams (third party introducers) in USA, Southern Europe, Latin America and Asia (and additional sales teams in the future in Australia, Middle East etc) as well as ARK’s Client Portfolio Management (“CPM”) Team and Marketing Team, acting as a cohesive force that assists with the coordination of sales campaigns and initiatives globally, including keeping our global sales roadshows and client events running smoothly, on time, and on budget.
This role requires exceptional interpersonal skills, organisational skills, sharp attention to detail, a calm and collaborative working style, and genuine enthusiasm for the demands of a fast-paced, internationally focused sales environment.
Regular domestic and international travel will be required (2-3 weeks per quarter))
Your Responsibilities
Sales campaign & road show management
- Own and maintain ARK’s global investor road show calendar, providing a rolling twelve-month forward view of planned client roadshows across all regions.
- Lead and hold the pen on the segment of ARK’s weekly global campaign calls relating to roadshows and any other calls with regional sales teams where roadshows and client events are covered.
- Coordinate with regional sales teams in the US, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia to align road show timing and ensure a consistent, centralised content and agenda framework.
- Track event status from initial planning through to post-event review, ensuring all stakeholders are kept informed at every stage.
Roadshow event ownership, including planning & logistics
- Manage end-to-end logistics for investor roundtable events (typically 20–30 attendees for each smaller event 60–100 attendees for larger events, including those featuring Cathie and senior ARK leadership).
- Source and book appropriate venues in each target city, working with local sales teams and partners to identify options that meet budget and format requirements.
- Create, issue and manage invitations in collaboration with regional sales teams, including production of Eventbrite invitations and related materials where external partners require additional support.
- Coordinate the deployment of ARK’s client portfolio managers, product specialists, and other representatives to events, including scheduling, travel logistics, and on-the-ground briefing materials. For senior leadership and the research team, this will involve coordination with the relevant personal assistants.
- Identify travel itineraries (i.e. the ideal flights and transport) for ARK personnel attending road shows, optimising routing and timing across consecutive-day events.
- Liaise with ARK’s marketing team to ensure branded materials, banners, and printed collateral are produced and shipped to each event venue in good time.
- Attend selected events in person — particularly larger or more complex programmes — to provide on-the-ground logistical coordination and support.
Assistance with coordination of collaborative workflows across internal and external sales teams
- Assist the Global Head of Distribution with coordinating meetings with ARK’s own sales teams as well as the external sales teams of our third-party introducers and organising workflows, information sharing, sales activity reporting and tracking of agreed actions using project tracker.
Crm build-out, contact curation and management
- Assist the Global Head of Distribution with the development of the firm’s CRM (particularly in the US market) and buildout of the list of new and prospective clients (advisors, fund selectors, portfolio managers at RIAs, Brokers Dealers, Wirehouses, family offices, and pension funds etc), interaction with internal and external sales teams to ensure that client data is collected, analysed and presented in dashboards for management.
Partner & stakeholder coordination
- Build strong working relationships with ARK’s internal sales team as well as external distribution partners, adapting your level of support and coordination to the needs and capabilities of each partner.
- Work closely with executive assistants and other administrative colleagues to secure time in diaries and manage competing scheduling demands.
- Act as a central point of contact for all investor roadshow events-related queries across the organisation.
Assistance with proposals and follow-ups for large accounts
- Assist the Global Head of Distribution with follow-ups to top tier client meetings, including the drafting of follow-up proposals and emails, liaising with the Client Portfolio Management Teams and Marketing Team for any support required to prepare those follow-up materials, including the creation of bespoke presentation decks, proposals in Word format and support on follow-up calls.
Budget & approvals
- Maintain a clear record of events expenditure, tracking actuals against budget and flagging variances promptly.
- Manage the approvals process for event commitments, ensuring appropriate sign-off is obtained in line with internal procedures.
Performance measurement
- Work collaboratively with the sales team to develop a framework for measuring the commercial impact of road show events, including tracking deal pipeline contribution and investor progression relative to event attendance so that we can assess the return on investment of events.
- Produce regular event performance summaries to help the team assess return on investment and prioritise future activity.
Who You Are
Essential
- Exceptional organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams across different time zones.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative, solutions-oriented working style; comfortable engaging with both internal colleagues and senior external partners.
- Experience in events coordination, sales support, or a similar administrative/operational role, ideally within financial services or asset management.
- Proactive and detail-oriented, with a track record of taking ownership and following through reliably.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (particularly Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint) and familiarity with event management tools such as Eventbrite
- Proficiency with and willingness to maximise the use of agentic AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude.
- Comfortable managing and tracking budgets.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally on a periodic basis.
- Must be based in, or willing to relocate to, St. Petersburg, Florida — this role is office-based at ARK’s US headquarters.
Desirable
- Experience working with CRM systems to track pipeline and measure sales activity.
- Previous exposure to multi-region or international events programmes.
- Familiarity with the asset management or investment industry.
- Experience working with internal sales teams and/or coordinating external distribution or sales partners.
How to Apply
To learn more about what it's like to work at ARK please visit https://ark-invest.com/work-at-ark/