Product Manager (Development Environemnt), Aladdin - Associate

Team Overview

Team: Developer Environment Engineering

BlackRock Inc. is a preeminent global firm, providing investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional and individual investors around the world. Aladdin® is the investment management platform that provides asset managers, asset owners and asset servicers sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading and operational scale across both public and private markets. 

Aladdin is currently a $1bn technology business with a rapidly expanding landscape that has significant growth aspirations over the next five years.The Aladdin Platform team is responsible for engineering and operating the core service layer that powers Aladdin. We sit at the center of enabling the delivery of products and features in Aladdin for BlackRock and the largest financial institutions in the world. As the pace of growth of Aladdin accelerates, the Platform Team is laser focused on the speed of product delivery, execution predictability and quality. The Platform team is responsible for a suite of foundational and modern products including our Developer Platform, Core Infrastructure and our Mission Control Platform. The Platform product management office helps to catalyze our engineering community, delivering well-defined Platform products that have clear outcome-oriented roadmaps and efficient and predictable delivery.

About the Role

We are seeking a passionate and technically fluent Product Manager to join our Development Environment Engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in developer-centric environments, understands engineering workflows, and can translate developer needs into actionable product priorities.You will serve as the critical interface between our internal developer community and the engineering team, ensuring that our development environments remain stable, scalable, and optimized for productivity. The success in this role hinges on your ability to actively listen, thoughtfully prioritize developer needs, and collaborate effectively with engineering partners to drive impactful solutions. As a trusted product expert, you will take ownership of the roadmap and deliver features related to a strategic effort to shape the future of developer environments for the organization.

You are:

• Passionate about building technical solutions in partnership with engineering teams

• A self-starter who enjoys solving complex problems that deepen our understanding of end users

• Curious to learn new skills and willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone

• Comfortable challenging the status quo and using your entrepreneurial spirit to create new solutions

• A team player who is energized by working in a fast-paced environment

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, evaluate & define detailed product requirements, use cases, user stories, and user journey maps necessary to deliver a feature to users.

• Drive the end-to-end strategy for test data management, ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions that accelerate product quality and delivery

• Partner with engineering leads to scope, refine, and deliver features. Ensure alignment across squads and maintain velocity through agile ceremonies and sprint planning.

• Become the go-to person for the product, growing expertise in the product’s full capabilities.

• Track feature progress throughout the month and be able to report to senior members of the team.

• Manage stakeholders and the product backlog for client feedback, roadmap, epic and feature prioritization, and new requests against client commitments.

• Articulate, communicate, and demo upcoming release details and new features to the broader product, client and relevant teams.  

• Participate in PDLC practices, such as quarterly planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and delivery demos. 

• Coordinate the agenda and product artifacts for product governance forums and joint working groups. Summarizing decisions, next steps, and feedback on product readiness for stakeholders.

• Manage dependencies across teams to ensure alignment and mitigate risks.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in platform or developer tooling domains.

• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build trust and rapport with engineering teams.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a user-first mindset.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely

• Experience working in multi-functional teams with low interdependency and high autonomy.

• Experience in agile product development and backlog management.

• Ability to synthesize technical feedback into clear product requirements.

• Strong working knowledge of agile methodology and help team in the sprint planning and daily stand ups.

• Experience with test data management and/or quality engineering (QE).

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to developer platforms or similar enterprise-grade environments.

• Bachelor’s degree required; Computer Science or Engineering disciplines preferred.

• Familiarity with CI/CD, segmented environments, and developer productivity metrics.

• Hands on development experience would be greatly beneficial