Aladdin Wealth Tech, Product Manager, NYC

About this role

Product Manager, Aladdin Wealth Tech

New York

About this role

This product management role will work on Aladdin Wealth Tech’s product evolution.  The individual will help advance our product vision in this area, evolve product/market fit, and drive roadmap planning, development, and delivery. This role will work closely with a dedicated team of engineers, designers, product marketers, QA, and other product managers. The individual will also provide guidance and support to our business development, implementation, and relationship management teams in their engagements with prospective and live clients.

About Aladdin Wealth Tech

Aladdin Wealth Tech is BlackRock’s technology business serving the global wealth management industry. Our mission is to transform wealth management through technology, leading to better investment outcomes for more people. Our users are financial advisors, bankers, CIOs, risk managers, portfolio managers, and business leaders of leading wealth managers. We enable them to deliver better, more personalized portfolios to their clients and to differentiate and grow their wealth businesses. We are a global team of product, engineering, client, implementation, and analytics professionals pioneering the next generation of wealthtech capabilities. 

Key Responsibilities

The Associate Product Management role is ideal for an experienced product manager or technical professional looking to join a high-performance product team. The role responsibilities include:

• Helping set the roadmap for product features, ensuring the roadmap is aligned to business priorities and making priority tradeoffs among competing opportunities and needs.
• Executing on the roadmap by defining requirements, developing product and technical designs, driving the SDLC to deliver high-quality software. This role works closely and hands-on with designers to develop UX and UI designs, engineers to develop technical solutions, and QA to design and execute test plans.
• Working closely with Product Marketing to articulate value propositions and create client-facing collateral and demo scripts and configure demo sites for new features.
• Contributing to product innovation, including by extracting insights from usage data and user feedback, connecting dots across different product needs and client asks, and tracking competitor capabilities.
• Being an expert in product features and using this expertise in cross-functional solutioning and initiatives.
• Ensuring relevant service desk (bugs, questions, etc) inquiries are addressed efficiently and at high quality by being hands on with troubleshooting that require basic understanding of how features are configured to fit client needs

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years of meaningful experience in product management or a hands-on technical role
• While not required, previous experience in wealth management or asset management is a plus
• Ability to and passion for empathizing deeply with users and acting on their behalf
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver presentations and communicate internally and externally at a range of seniority levels

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$132,500.00 - USD$162,500.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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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