Product Delivery & Execution, Aladdin Wealth, Vice President

About this role

About Aladdin Wealth and Product Delivery

Aladdin Wealth is BlackRock’s platform for wealth management firms, delivering risk analytics, portfolio construction tools, and scalable technology to empower advisors and their clients.

Product Delivery function plays a critical role in ensuring the successful evolution of Aladdin Wealth’s product capabilities across global markets and its efficient delivery and implementation across clients.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated Vice President to join the Product Delivery team within the Aladdin Wealth Product Organization.

The Product Delivery team serves as a key coordinator and liaison between client-facing teams and product managers, ensuring seamless governance, strategic oversight, tracking, and execution of the product roadmap, and acting in close partnership with other Aladdin Wealth teams, both within and outside the Product organization.

• The successful candidate will be the first APAC member of Product Delivery team, with responsibilities over the entire APAC region, including clients in Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and Hong Kong.

• They will be the face of the Product Organization to the Aladdin Wealth APAC business development and relationship management teams, leveraging their location in Hong Kong and local knowledge of the market to influence the product direction and capture local market needs.

Key Responsibilities

Product Governance & Roadmap Execution

• Operate as a clearing house between client teams and product management teams, to ensure roadmap intake requests are properly vetted and documented and are onboarded according to the established governance framework.

• Coordinate and moderate operative level as well as senior meetings, including agenda preparation, and documentation of the outcome. These meetings constitute core components of the AWT governance framework and shape the high-level evolution of the product roadmap, therefore high attention to details, adequate planning and organization are a key requirement for the candidate, as well as the ability to navigate complex dynamics and manage multiple stakeholders with different priorities at the same time.

• Partner with Product Management teams to ensure approved initiatives are actioned, cross-pillar ownership is assigned, and records are maintained in good order. Collaborate to confirm development timelines and track milestone progress on an ongoing basis, navigating a complex and fast environment.

• Actively participate in peer review sessions with other Product teams as well as Client teams, to align product requirements and strategic roadmap solutions, short term and long term.

Feature Testing & Deployment

• Oversee final testing of new product features before they are made available to Client teams and subsequent configuration in client environments.

Product Evolution, Delivery & Commercial Offering

• Support Product Leaders in shaping our evolving commercial offering, to offer tangible and pragmatic solutions to client teams and empower the sales processes and the subsequent configuration of the Aladdin Wealth platform for our clients, prioritizing scalable solutions, efficiency and product features that can address and anticipate market trends.

• Oversee the deployment and configuration of features in demo environments (both back-end and front-end).

• Ensure demo sites reflect the latest product evolution and newly released features and are maintained over time, to keep the pace of a quickly evolving financial industry.

Skills and Qualifications

• Deep understanding of product lifecycle management and agile methodologies.

• Proven experience in product delivery, implementations, or governance roles within a technology or financial services environment.

• Very strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities at the same time, navigating a complex environment.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across global teams.

• Previous experience working with or within cross-functional teams including Relationship Management, Sales Engineering, Relationship Management, and Product Marketing. The ability to build strong collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders and to work in full partnership with them, is a must for this role.

• Strong attention to detail, organization, creative thinking and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

• Strong knowledge of the financial industry and ability to anticipate and navigate relevant market trends. Familiarity with wealth management platforms, risk analytics, or enterprise software is a plus.

• Technical skills such as the ability to configure front-end and back-end platform components as well as coding skills are a strong plus.

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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