About the position
BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations. We are looking for an Associate Product Manager within our Direct Indexing Equity team. This role will work across business teams including Portfolio Management, Trading and Operations to lead business initiatives that scale processes and systems, improve efficiencies and reduce errors. The ideal candidate will be a structured thinker, one who possesses technical awareness and can support a fast-growing business. A strong team player is critical, as they will work creatively and collaboratively with colleagues across a wide range of departments. They will bring excellent technical skills, an intellectual curiosity, and a 'get the job done' mentality.
Responsibilities
- Act as a central point of contact between business users and development teams for both new and existing systems.
- Support the execution governance of business roadmaps, including communication of status and project management for associated projects.
- Optimize the services of our partnered vendors by effectively managing the relationships and their deliverables.
- Assist in the adoption of new features and changes across our systems by working closely with end users, engineers and testers.
- Capture requirements that balance objectives with resource constraints, deadlines and the demands of a live trading environment.
- Document current state processes, perform gap analysis, and guide future state process design to enable scalable growth.
- Partner with team members, developers and 3rd party software providers to improve efficiencies and enhance the usability and user experience of internal/external systems and workflows.
- Provide support to business users by investigating time sensitive issues with an ability to triage and prioritize conflicting demands.
Requirements
- 3+ years of related experience working in asset management and/or a brokerage firm in business process improvement/engineering/project or product management.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, computer science, engineering or a comparable field.
- Business Analysis experience.
- Experience working with systems developers on custom software, preferably in an agile environment.
- Self-motivated with the capacity to navigate ambiguity and take initiative in uncertain situations.
- A relentless focus on precision and accuracy in all aspects of work.
- Strong verbal and written communication with ability to gather, analyze, and present data to different audiences.
- Experience with databases and writing SQL queries.
Benefits
- Strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
