Project/Product Manager, Associate

About this role

About this role

The Aladdin Client Experience Product Team (CXP) is a dynamic and innovative group with dedicated focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions for clients, regulators, engineers, sales, and service professionals, while ensuring seamless integration across various platforms, including mobile and desktop applications. Collaboration, agility, and a commitment to continuous improvement are at the core of the CXP team's mission, making it an integral part of Aladdin's success.

Within CXP, the Client Platform team’s mission is to create best-in-class experiences across the client journey to drive sustainable growth. The CP team includes Product, Development, and Design UX. We are integrated in key strategic initiatives across the Aladdin Product landscape. Our experts are embedded into different teams, to accelerate, build and scale web, desktop, and mobile platforms to serve our clients across all channels.

CXP Client Platform

Our vision is to bridge client needs and business goals by creating AI-First workflows, personalized solutions, and platforms that drive an improved experience, revenue growth, and operating efficiency. We actively develop, maintain and support a suite of workflow applications, an underlying technology platform, and integrations with external CRMs.

We are an inclusive team that values diverse perspectives and fosters an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work and do their best every day

The Role

Are you interested in building innovative products that shape the financial markets? Are you excited by the fast-paced environment of a startup, but eager to take on some of the world's most challenging problems? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in the intersection of technology and finance?

The Client Platform team is looking for a Product Manager, who:

• Has experience in product-led software development, responsible for defining the features and requirements necessary to deliver a complete product to market and lead the product team to success

• Is comfortable to be deeply involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, with a willingness to wear multiple hats, including project management, user experience design, testing, training, release planning, business-as-usual content management and product support.

• Has experience in analyzing user feedback and market trends to fuel product improvements

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize features

• Monitors product performance and iterates to meet business goals

• Demonstrates excellent understanding of key agile terminology and best practices

• Maintains clear documentation for each stage of the agile product lifecycle and ensures well defined, and seamless handover between stages

• Has excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills

• Has experience in communicating with various collaborators and partners

• Can work alternative schedules to collaborate with colleagues across the globe or manage support

The ideal candidate for our Product Manager, Associate role:

• Enjoys an environment conducive to continuous learning and approaches challenges creatively, always ready to take on new responsibilities

• Passionate about the opportunity to work with brand-new technologies like machine learning, LLM-s, and groundbreaking FinTech solutions.

• Has a growth mindset, shares our belief that mistakes are opportunities to learn and grow

• Ready to solve new problems by effectively re purposing solutions and knowledge

• Capable of supporting their product area with end-to-end responsibility for their projects

• Builds and sustains partnerships and collaborations to achieve successful outcomes with others

• Advances issues timely and appropriately

• Creates a sense of trust in influence situations; builds support and commitment for ideas, proposals, and courses of action

• Manages team documentation and looks for opportunities to make it more organized and valuable

• Collaborates as a teammate

You have:

• 5+ years as a product manager in Financial Services technologies with solid understanding of the financial services industry

• 1+ years’ experience in leading agile processes and is comfortable serving in the role of “Product Owner” to a scrum team

• Experience using PDLC/SDLC tools such as AHA! ADO, JIRA, systems, or equivalent integrations and product management tools

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, ability to translate real business problems into technical solutions and gain consensus on plans from a non-technical audience, SQL a plus!

• High degree of comfort to work and deliver results independently, self-starter

• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and planning skills, including the ability to multitask

• A track record of building positive relationships and trusted partnerships through open dialogue and continuous delivery

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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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.