Job Details

ID #43619523
State New York
City New york city
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source BlackRock
Showed 2022-06-25
Date 2022-06-24
Deadline 2022-08-23
Category Et cetera
Create resume

Vice President, Product Manager, Investment Experience - SMA Tech

New York, New york city, 10055 New york city USA

Vacancy expired!

Description

About this role

About This Role

This product management role in our SMA Tech team designs and develops highly scaled portfolio management, risk management, and trading tools. This is a great opportunity for an experienced fintech product manager, or an investment professional interested in a product management role on a world-class enterprise tech team. This role reports to the Product Director, Investment Experience.

About SMA Tech

We are on a journey to create the industry's leading platform for outsourced personalized portfolios. The SMA Tech team is a pillar within Aladdin Wealth Tech responsible for the technology footprint ofBlackRock's SMA business. We build, buy, and operate the technologyunderpinning our ambitions.SMA Tech is a multidisciplinary team of approximately 50 product managers, engineers, UX designers, and QA professionals.

Aladdin Wealth Tech is BlackRock's technology business serving the global wealth management industry.We bring the best of Aladdin's sophisticated portfolio construction and risk capabilitiesto the financial advisors, bankers, CIOs, risk managers, and business leaders of leading wealth managers, enabling them to deliver better, more personalized portfolios to their clients and to differentiate and grow their businesses.We are a global team of product, client, implementation, andanalytics professionalspioneering the next generation of WealthTech capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Set and maintain the roadmap.Contribute to the vision for the Investment Experience and build a roadmap that drives toward that vision. Distill the roadmap into actionable deliverables and milestones and evangelize this roadmap to your engineering team and stakeholders.
  • Execute the roadmap.Convert the roadmap into robust specifications andefficiently develop those as enterprise-grade software in close, hands-on partnership with your engineering team.Drive priority decisions and create an environment for your engineering team to execute efficiently.
  • Market expertise.Be a student of the U.S. wealth management ecosystem, with expertise in investment products, implementation within SMAs, and trading. Leverage depth in the portfolio management discipline to design and improve daily workflows for portfolio managers, risk managers, and traders. Develop unique opinions on developments in the space to inform our roadmap.
  • CommerciallyOriented. Learn and understandthe economics of the wealth market, technology firms, and BlackRock, and able to drive economic decisions in roadmap planning, prioritization, and resource allocation.
  • Technical acumen. Able to envision and designtechnically-feasibleintegrations, coordinating detailed specification work across our product and engineering teams and taking into account user experience, operational scale, and implementation cost.
  • Stakeholdermanagement.This role engages with BlackRock's SMA investment professionals as well as our Operations, Sales, and L&C teams.These teams are our partners and stakeholders. Theproduct manager is expected to develop productive relationships with stakeholdersanditerate on the engagement model between the Investment Experience product team and stakeholder teams.
  • UX design. Working closely with your UX design counterparts, design user experiences and workflows with a deep understanding of and empathy for investment professional users. Relentlessly work to improve our UX in pursuit of user delight.

Desired Qualifications

  • 4-7+ years of meaningful experiencein wealth management or asset management in investment, product management, or technology-centric roles.
  • Track record ofdeveloping and launching new technology features and capabilities.
  • Broad understanding of capital markets, financial instruments, asset allocation, and portfolio optimization. Familiarity with multi-factor models for portfolio risk.
  • Prior experience as a portfolio manager or trader, or deep knowledge of these workflows from a support role. CFA designation is a plus.
  • Experience working with a highly technical product, including ability to get into the weeds on technical features to engage in technical solutioning. Experience with building and maintaining APIs is a plus.
  • Proven ability to drive prioritization decisions and work hands-on with engineers to build and ship new capabilities.
  • Experience managing internal stakeholders and synthesizing user feedback.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver presentations and communicate up and down the organization.
  • Strong interpersonal,problem-solving,and planning skills.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

Vacancy expired!

Subscribe Report job