Product Management, Aladdin Data, Associate

About this role

BlackRock Company Overview:

BlackRock is a global leader in investment management, risk management, and advisory services for institutional and retail clients. We help clients achieve their goals and overcome challenges with a range of products, including separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares® (exchange-traded funds), and other pooled investment vehicles. We also offer risk management, advisory, and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions®. Headquartered in New York City, as of February 5, 2025, we handle approximately $11.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM) and have around 19,000 employees in offices across 38 countries, with a significant presence in key global markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Aladdin Data:

When BlackRock was founded in 1988, the goal was to combine financial services with innovative technology. Today, BlackRock is a leading FinTech platform for investment management and technology services globally. Data is central to the Aladdin platform, differentiating us through our ability to consume, store, analyze, and gain insights from it.

The Aladdin Data team maintains a pioneering data platform that delivers high-quality data to users, including investors, operations staff, data scientists, and engineers. Our aim is to provide consistent, high-quality data while evolving our platform to support the firm's growth. We build high-performance data pipelines, enable data discovery and consumption, and continually enhance our data storage capabilities.

We are recruiting a product manager to expand our self-service digital product management team. Our products are used by BlackRock staff and customers to implement complex data environments that automate production of financial analytics.

Product Managers are responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle. Key skills include gathering and prioritizing internal and external requirements, defining product vision, and working closely with engineering, design and relevant business stakeholders to ensure good faith progress towards key objectives. As an associate product manager, you’ll be in the critical role of driving product progress across one or more applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product stakeholders, designers, and engineers to process feature and enhancement requests
• Develop a grasp of competitive products or solved problems by exploring alternatives in the market
• Fill and prioritize sprint backlogs
• Work with engineers and designers to draft requirements for execution
• Identify and enable both product and operational analytics that inform future decision making
• Report on delivery progress, focusing on both development throughput and impact against operating metrics

Skills and Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a product manager or related field
• 2 or 4-year degree in business, design, or engineering
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse cross-functional team and peers
• Highly organized, willing and able to manage high volumes of detailed information
• Experience with agile methods, with a particular focus on authoring epics, user stories, and requirements
• Experience working with diversely skilled professionals such as user experience designers, software engineers, data scientists, and asset managers
• Exposure to machine learning concepts
• Market research methods, such as competitive analysis, market sizing, or other evaluation techniques
• User research methods, such as interviewing, usability testing, or other inspection methods

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.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

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.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.