About this role

The Aladdin Product Team sits at the heart of BlackRock, responsible for designing, building, and operating Aladdin. Being a member of Aladdin Product means working with the most thoughtful in the industry to build innovative products that shape financial markets. Are you interested in establishing a career foundation at the intersection of compliance and portfolio management processes and technology products?

As a Product Owner with focus on Investment Compliance products, you will be responsible for tactically leading a dynamic development squad. You will learn how to elicit requirements, prioritize backlogs, map dependencies, and mitigate development blockers, aligning feature delivery with our broader Aladdin product vision. You will have the opportunity to learn about and interact with a variety of core Aladdin capabilities spanning the entire investment lifecycle. You will also closely connect with our client community, and BlackRock business strategy to steer our product's direction. Contributing to diverse engineering and Aladdin business teams, we will deliver cutting-edge investment compliance capabilities and superb customer experiences.

This role is accountable for delivering automation capabilities for configuring, calculating and understanding complex compliance requirements for BlackRock and the Aladdin client community. A successful product owner will help define a clear product vision, execute on this vision, and ensure continuous partner feedback and alignment.

Your Responsibilities:

• Shape and execute on the product vision for Aladdin’s Investment Compliance products
• Own part of the Investment Compliance product backlog, from feature definition and prioritization to development readiness. Collaborate with partners to define deployment strategy
• Attends all key agile development ceremonies such as stand-ups, grooming, planning, demos, and retrospectives
• Partner with developers through the development process; incorporate user feedback
• Lead a virtual product team to build tangible prototypes that clearly articulate business benefits
• Serve as a resource to internal and external clients with regard to our capabilities in the context of their business
• Partner with the Aladdin Client Business to help define and lead opportunities related to investment compliance workflows in the market place
• Define and measure business and technical performance metrics to advise product strategy
• Stay attuned to industry and technology trends, markets and alternative product offerings and conceptualize impacts to the product offering

You have:

• 2-4 years of Product Ownership / Business Analysis or meaningful experience desired
• Unbridled interest in understanding and solving problems
• Basic familiarity with the investment lifecycle desired
• Strong interpersonal, problem-solving and organisational / planning skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver presentations and communicate up and down the organization
• Ability to work and deliver results independently, self-starter
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance or equivalent practical experience
• Strong technical abilities, including familiarity working with SQL and with APIs

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.