Technical Product Manager, Aladdin Engineering Platform, Vice President

Aladdin Engineering Platform Technical Product Manager

Do you want to shape the future of financial technology?

BlackRock is one of the world’s leading asset management firms and Aladdin® is the firm’s an end-to-end operating system for investment professionals to see their whole portfolio, understand risk exposure, and act with precision. Aladdin is the central nervous system powering the investment decisions of both the firm and its clients; a $1bn technology business that has significant growth aspirations over the next five years.

The Platform Engineering 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 Platforms team is responsible for a suite of foundational and modern products including API Management, Orchestration, and our cloud infrastructure. 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.

Job background

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to drive the transformation and delivery of our Network that powers Aladdin core platform products. As the lead Product Manager, you will be responsible for defining product strategy, vision, and own the product roadmap. You will work hand in hand with engineering to drive strategic outcomes, platform adoption and ultimately enable fast delivery of Aladdin features and unlock commercial opportunities. We are looking for a seasoned technical product manager with experience in delivering scalable, flexible core platform products.

Success depends on your ability to understand our technology stack and strategy, and Aladdin’s commercial strategy; combining these to drive product developments for Platform’s key products that will transform our ability and to build on Aladdin. You will be responsible for prioritizing product build and lead execution in partnership with both the engineering team and other stakeholders to deliver strategic products. You have a background in cloud-native networking technologies such as SDN (Software-Defined Networking), service mesh architectures, or container networking interfaces in platforms like Kubernetes. You can clearly communicate the advantages of modern networking infrastructure—including scalability, automation, enhanced security, and seamless connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.You are comfortable orchestrating discussion, defining complex requirements and driving decisions in a matrixed organization.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and KPIs that will transform and differentiate the offering; You will do this by translating our platform strategy, commercial priorities, and our users’ needs into a product vision and feature priorities.

• Drive value realization through incremental release and the adoption of those features by Product Engineering and partner products

• Influence senior stakeholders & partners to draw alignment on vision and deliver the highest value product offering with the greatest commercial opportunity.

• Drive product execution by defining, building and launching on our product evolution. You will prioritize build across features and oversee delivery.

• Demonstrate an expert understanding of target customer personas, particularly their needs and their pain points, including developers (both external and internal) and integrators.

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

Essential Skills and Experience