Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that seeks to connect the information, people and technology needed to manage money in real time. The Aladdin platform combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, compliance and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading and operational scale.
Through the Aladdin Business, Aladdin is delivered to a community of over 200 institutional clients around the globe, including BlackRock. There are over 30,000 end users of Aladdin globally.
The Aladdin Business is comprised of 800+ professionals responsible for implementing and supporting our Aladdin clients, sales and marketing, and ensuring the Aladdin Community maximizes Aladdin products through engagement and education.
Role Description
The Data & Engineering Product Marketing Manager is responsible for engaging with our clients and end users as the subject matter expert for data access including APIs, data science, data warehouse, and other techniques to allow investment professionals to build solutions. Key responsibilities include:
- Consult clients on best practices – demonstrating how Aladdin data can be used to solve for our clients’ unique requirements and workflows
- Own, construct, and maintain high quality product communications and documentation
- Connects industry knowledge and market trends with user feedback and product capabilities to inform product and customer engagement strategies
- Define user segmentation and optimal feature and adoption targets per segment
- Advocate on behalf of the community by collecting and distilling user feedback to validate and influence engineering decisions
- Provide clear business requirements and liaise with the development team to deliver customer enhancements
- Collaborate directly with super users on development priorities and feature usability
- Assist in Aladdin business development activities as a subject matter expert attending prospect meetings, providing trading demos, participating in Proof of Concept sessions and responding to RFPs
Experience Required
- 2+ years of commercial experience working within product management or a similar field focused on APIs or other data access mechanisms
- Experience with/knowledge programming languages, with a focus on Python and R a plus
- Strong understanding of product and software development and the ability to work in an Agile environment
- Superior communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly to clients
- Customer service oriented and experience facing off with clients
- Track record of influencing behavior at various levels in the organization, including cross-functional leaders
- Self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment, set priorities, and is able to work independently and in group settings
- Experience with data visualization, notebooks, and/or business intelligence frameworks highly value
Job requisition #
R200156
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