Position OverviewThe Corporate Communications team at Apollo, which leads all communications, corporate brand and corporate marketing activities globally is seeking a new team member who is a self-starter with strong writing and media relations skills, excellent project management skills and exceptional judgement. This role will sit in the Tokyo office and cover Apollo’s Asia-Pacific platform.The ideal candidate for this role is an accomplished communications professional with a keen intellect, tireless work ethic, and a broad world view combined with creativity, vision and ambition Hands-on experience with M&amp;A communications, crisis management and special situations, and organizational communications is essential. This professional will have high EQ, mental agility, and the confidence and executive presence to earn the trust of Apollo's leaders.The role encompasses a broad spectrum of responsibilities, including:<ul><li>Working with Apollo executives and teams across business lines to develop and implement strategic, proactive media plans and tactics to support corporate and divisional business and marketing objectives and drive measurable results</li><li>Continuously identifying ways to differentiate the Apollo platform to key stakeholders throughout APAC</li><li>Taking a proactive role in media engagement, driving story ideas, initiatives and issues management</li><li>Align closely with global teams – work with colleagues based in New York, London and Asia to ensure consistency of strategic priorities globally</li><li>Creating informative, persuasive and concise internal and external communications</li><li>Planning and executing both internal and external speaking engagements on behalf of senior executives</li><li>Drafting press releases, briefing notes, talking points, internal and external content</li><li>Help manage the relationships with local agencies, serving as their day-to-day contact</li><li>Ad-hoc projects, as needed</li></ul>Qualifications &amp; Experience<ul><li>Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in hands-on media relations and required expertise in financial, transactional and corporate communications</li><li>Proven ability to consistently make sound judgments, engage and build trust with senior executives and effectively collaborate with others</li><li>Possess excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently</li><li>Have a track-record establishing, building and managing meaningful relationships with media, key stakeholders, our executives, journalists and global colleagues</li><li>Experience in managing reputational risk and crisis communications</li><li>Effective manager of external agencies</li><li>Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated who thrives in a dynamic and passionate work environment</li><li>Tech enthusiast with hunger to learn and leverage AI tools to reshape ways of working</li><li>Experience living or studying overseas, or working for international firms valued</li><li>Native level Japanese highly preferred</li></ul>Personal Characteristics:<ul><li>Demonstrates a flexible and adaptable work style, responding quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills; and experience or deep understanding of communicating across varied platforms, content types and technologies</li><li>Experience in developing metrics to quantify results to measure the team’s effectiveness</li><li>Acute attention to detail, ability to multi-task, willingness and desire to learn and work well within a team are critical</li><li>Unquestionable professional and personal integrity</li><li>A team-player and self-starter, with a positive attitude and excellent work ethic</li><li>Strong project management skills</li></ul>ABOUT APOLLOApollo 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. As of September 30, 2025, Apollo had approximately $908 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit <a href="http://www.apollo.com">www.apollo.com</a>.OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUESOur clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:<ul><li>Outperform Expectations</li><li>Challenge Convention</li><li>Champion Opportunity</li><li>Lead Responsibly</li><li>Drive Collaboration</li></ul>As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.OUR BENEFITSApollo 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.Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.

<h5>Apollo aims to be a leading provider of flexible and long-duration capital enabling the energy transition. </h5>Apollo’s Sustainable Investing Platform leverages our deep experience across asset classes to deploy capital in key sectors driving the energy transition and decarbonization. The scale and breadth of this opportunity is significant, and across asset classes, Apollo sees the opportunity to deploy, commit, or arrange more than $100 billion by 2030.Since 2022, Apollo-managed funds have deployed, committed or arranged over $59 billion¹ into energy transition, infrastructure and sustainability-related investments, supporting companies and projects across infrastructure, wind, solar, storage and renewable fuels, as well as a wide range of technologies to facilitate decarbonization. Apollo has also played an active role in helping finance the transformation of certain traditional energy companies.

Director, Asia-Pacific Corporate Communications (Tokyo-based)

Position OverviewThe Corporate Communications team at Apollo, which leads all communications, corporate brand and corporate marketing activities globally is seeking a new team member who is a self-starter with strong writing and media relations skills, excellent project management skills and exceptional judgement. This role will sit in the Tokyo office and cover Apollo’s Asia-Pacific platform.The ideal candidate for this role is an accomplished communications professional with a keen intellect, tireless work ethic, and a broad world view combined with creativity, vision and ambition Hands-on experience with M&amp;A communications, crisis management and special situations, and organizational communications is essential. This professional will have high EQ, mental agility, and the confidence and executive presence to earn the trust of Apollo's leaders.The role encompasses a broad spectrum of responsibilities, including:<ul><li>Working with Apollo executives and teams across business lines to develop and implement strategic, proactive media plans and tactics to support corporate and divisional business and marketing objectives and drive measurable results</li><li>Continuously identifying ways to differentiate the Apollo platform to key stakeholders throughout APAC</li><li>Taking a proactive role in media engagement, driving story ideas, initiatives and issues management</li><li>Align closely with global teams – work with colleagues based in New York, London and Asia to ensure consistency of strategic priorities globally</li><li>Creating informative, persuasive and concise internal and external communications</li><li>Planning and executing both internal and external speaking engagements on behalf of senior executives</li><li>Drafting press releases, briefing notes, talking points, internal and external content</li><li>Help manage the relationships with local agencies, serving as their day-to-day contact</li><li>Ad-hoc projects, as needed</li></ul>Qualifications &amp; Experience<ul><li>Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in hands-on media relations and required expertise in financial, transactional and corporate communications</li><li>Proven ability to consistently make sound judgments, engage and build trust with senior executives and effectively collaborate with others</li><li>Possess excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently</li><li>Have a track-record establishing, building and managing meaningful relationships with media, key stakeholders, our executives, journalists and global colleagues</li><li>Experience in managing reputational risk and crisis communications</li><li>Effective manager of external agencies</li><li>Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated who thrives in a dynamic and passionate work environment</li><li>Tech enthusiast with hunger to learn and leverage AI tools to reshape ways of working</li><li>Experience living or studying overseas, or working for international firms valued</li><li>Native level Japanese highly preferred</li></ul>Personal Characteristics:<ul><li>Demonstrates a flexible and adaptable work style, responding quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills; and experience or deep understanding of communicating across varied platforms, content types and technologies</li><li>Experience in developing metrics to quantify results to measure the team’s effectiveness</li><li>Acute attention to detail, ability to multi-task, willingness and desire to learn and work well within a team are critical</li><li>Unquestionable professional and personal integrity</li><li>A team-player and self-starter, with a positive attitude and excellent work ethic</li><li>Strong project management skills</li></ul>ABOUT APOLLOApollo 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. As of September 30, 2025, Apollo had approximately $908 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit <a href="http://www.apollo.com">www.apollo.com</a>.OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUESOur clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:<ul><li>Outperform Expectations</li><li>Challenge Convention</li><li>Champion Opportunity</li><li>Lead Responsibly</li><li>Drive Collaboration</li></ul>As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.OUR BENEFITSApollo 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.Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.

Director, Asia-Pacific Corporate Communications (Tokyo-based)

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