Technical Product Manager, Aladdin AI - Associate

About this role

Team Overview:
As a Product Manager for Aladdin AI, you will collaborate with the AI Product Lead to execute and refine the product vision for AI integration across BlackRock and Aladdin. You’ll be responsible for identifying high-impact opportunities to embed intelligent, automated capabilities throughout the investment process and broader financial services ecosystem. This role involves setting a clear product strategy, defining priorities, and delivering scalable AI products that can be easily adopted across the firm. You will own the product roadmap, working closely with AI Engineering to define and deliver platform capabilities that drive efficiency, innovation, and measurable business value.

You’ll partner across the product teams to identify opportunities and lead quarterly planning, enabling us to deliver on our objectives, and be instrumental in leading key partnerships to unlock scale. Your insights and ability to drive our product forward will help our team deliver world-class AI capabilities in Aladdin and a superb experience for Aladdin users. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Define & communicate an AI product vision, identifying key opportunities and product solutions. Educate and evangelize product value internally with key product partners. 
• Prioritize initiatives to achieve product strategy. Own the prioritization of the backlog, define requirements, map dependencies, mitigate development blockers, and collaborate with platform & partner development teams to define deployment strategy.
• Lead the cross-functional product, design, and development team to deliver AI solutions at scale. Drive user research and actively engage with investment community to acquire feedback that influences product roadmap and improves product value. 
• Identify opportunities for AI innovation by applying deep domain expertise in financial services and a strong understanding of emerging AI capabilities to shape forward-looking product strategies.
• Stay up to date on the fast-evolving artificial intelligence space, keeping ahead of trends, and competitive financial capabilities in the fast-evolving AI landscape, ultimately influencing product offering and strategy.
• Lead the publication of the following artifacts:
• User Stories & Features for each major product component
• Component Documentation, including Product definition documents, product Roadmaps, Product Increment tear sheets, User Documentation, and demos
• Release management, including test cases and collaborating with partners on release communication
• Lead the publication of the following artifacts:
  • User Stories & Features for each major product component
  • Component Documentation, including Product definition documents, product Roadmaps, Product Increment tear sheets, User Documentation, and demos
  • Release management, including test cases and collaborating with partners on release communication

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in AI/ML, data science, or related fields within engineering, project, or product management roles.
• Bachelor's and/or master’s degree in data science, computer science, engineering, or a comparable quantitative/technical field (e.g. statistics, mathematics, physics, operations research). 
• Proven experience working on AI systems, including familiarity with agentic workflows, model training/fine-tuning, and other recent AI frameworks.  
• Strong theoretical background in quantitative modeling and AI/ML approaches a plus.
• Experience defining and delivering AI/ML product roadmaps, including feature prioritization, lifecycle management, and cross-functional execution.
• Experience in building production-grade AI/ML solutions at scale a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex data science insights into scalable, user-facing product features.
• Hands-on experience collaborating with AI system developers in agile, iterative development environments.
• Familiarity with major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their AI/ML service offerings.
• Experience in financial services and/or enterprise software platforms.
• Self-starter with the ability to navigate ambiguity, take initiative, and drive clarity in complex problem spaces.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to precision and accuracy in all aspects of work.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize and present technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.

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 healthcare, 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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