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About the Role

The National Accounts Manager will lead Fortress’s strategic relationships with private wealth platforms and home offices, driving firm wide penetration, product adoption, and long-term partnerships across wirehouses, private banks, IBDs, and large RIA aggregators. This senior leader will set national account strategy, manage key decision‑maker relationships, and coordinate cross‑functional execution across sales, product, marketing, legal, and investment teams to accelerate growth of Fortress’s alternative investment offerings in the private wealth channel. This role is a cornerstone leadership position within Fortress Private Wealth Solutions, reporting to the Co-Heads of Private Wealth Solutions and acting as the primary point of accountability for national platform engagement.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a comprehensive national accounts strategy aligned with Fortress’s private wealth growth objectives and product roadmap.
Drive senior level relationships with home office, platform, research, due diligence, and investment committees at major wirehouses, private banks, IBDs, and RIA networks.
Lead platform onboarding, product approvals, shelf placement, and ongoing platform engagement across evergreen, and drawdown alternative vehicles.
Drive asset growth across private credit, real estate, and other alternative strategies distributed through private wealth channels.
Partner closely with regional sales leadership, internal sales, and product specialists to ensure consistent national messaging and coordinated account execution.
Influence territory planning, coverage models, and prioritization of strategic platforms and enterprise relationships.
Serve as the central liaison between national accounts and internal stakeholders including investment teams, product management, marketing, legal, compliance, and operations.
Collaborate on product design and structuring to ensure alignment with platform requirements, advisor usability, and investor demand.
Guide development of national account–specific marketing, education, and sales enablement initiatives in coordination with Private Wealth Solutions marketing.
Represent Fortress at senior‑level platform events, national conferences, advisory councils, and strategic offsites.
Support delivery of firmwide alternatives education, portfolio construction frameworks, and thought leadership tailored to private wealth gatekeepers and advisors.
Pathway to build, mentor, and lead a high‑performing national accounts team as the platform scales.
Establish best practices for platform engagement, CRM discipline, data‑driven decision‑making, and national account governance.
Ensure all activities adhere to regulatory, legal, and compliance standards.

Requirements

10-15+ years of experience in asset management distribution, with deep expertise in private wealth and alternative investments.
Proven track record leading national account relationships at a major alternatives manager or traditional asset manager.
Extensive experience navigating home office due diligence, platform approval processes, and enterprise‑level distribution agreements.
Strong understanding of alternative product structures commonly used in private wealth channels (e.g., interval funds, tender offer funds, REITs, BDCs, evergreen vehicles).
Exceptional relationship management, negotiation, and executive communication skills.
Strategic mindset with the ability to operate at both enterprise and execution levels.
Credibility with senior platform decision‑makers and internal investment professionals.
Strong commercial instincts paired with disciplined, compliant execution.
Collaborative leadership style suited to a multi‑strategy, multi‑channel organization.

Skills

Private wealth
Alternative investments
National account relationships
Home office due diligence
Platform approval processes
Enterprise-level distribution agreements
Alternative product structures
Relationship management
Negotiation
Executive communication
Strategic mindset
Commercial instincts
Disciplined execution
Compliant execution
Collaborative leadership

Experience Level

10-15+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree required
MBA, CFA, or equivalent advanced credential preferred

Salary/Compensations

$200,000 to $275,000

Benefits

Bonuses
Overtime
Deferred cash
Company contributions to employee 401(k) accounts

About the Company

Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager with approximately $55 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2025.
Founded in 1998, Fortress manages assets on behalf of approximately 2,000 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity and permanent capital investment strategies.
Investment performance is our cornerstone - we strive to generate strong risk adjusted returns for our investors over the long term.
Fortress looks for the best and the brightest to join our dynamic team of smart, driven, creative problem solvers.
We cultivate career growth through a framework enriched by a supportive mentorship system that provides hands on experience, nurtures individual potential, and rewards performance.
Our dynamic teams synergize diverse expertise with agile collaboration, catalyzing the creation of superior solutions that address complex financial and logistical challenges.
Our team thrives on a non-hierarchical ethos, embracing the fluidity of ideas and contributions from all levels to forge a path of collaborative success.
We steadfastly uphold a merit-based advancement approach, recognizing and rewarding the achievements and talents of our individuals as the cornerstone of our collective progress.

Equal Opportunity

Fortress Investment Group LLC collectively with its subsidiaries and operating affiliates is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
Fortress Investment Group LLC collectively with its subsidiaries and operating affiliates is an equal-opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.