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About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

Aladdin Data

Data is at the heart of Aladdin and increasingly the ability to consume, store, analyze and gain insight from data has become a key component of our competitive advantage. The Aladdin Data team is responsible for the data ecosystem within BlackRock. Our goal is to build and maintain a leading-edge data platform that provides highly available, consistent data of the highest quality for all users of the platform, notably investors, operations teams and data scientists. We focus on evolving our platform to deliver exponential scale to the firm, powering the future growth of Aladdin.

Aladdin Studio

As the scale and complexity of financial data expands and our user community becomes increasingly technical, enabling content creators and consumers to build directly on the Aladdin Platform is a core part of our Aladdin Strategy. Aladdin Studio is the home for that community delivering an integrated application where you can discover data, build your own financial applications, and access industry-leading content, documentation, and insights – all delivered through a design-forward and client-centric experience. The ambition for Studio is to make it the first and best choice for any user seeking to build investment applications or consume related data regardless of their existing use of Aladdin.

We are seeking a multifaceted and expert individual leader to join our team as the program lead for evolving the Aladdin Studio Platform. Working with functional squad leads, product managers and our engineering team, you will govern the strategy, planning and implementation for the Studio Digital platform. Specific areas of responsibility include our Studio experience, Studio governance components such as credit management framework, our content management platform and application wide telemetry and observability.

Responsibilities and requirements include

• Deep expertise in the

• Data user experience – search, discovery, exploration, visualization and virtualization

• Data management – data acquisition, ingestion, transformation, distribution, consumption and data governance

• Manage and deliver large, complex, multi-year, commercial projects/programs

• Coordinate the development of product definition and roadmaps in partnership with product management

• Structure and manage integrated projects and programs to achieve expected business results

• Manage the product increment lifecycle and associated ceremonies

• Manage relationships with senior leadership team and communicate status and issues

• Clarify and communicate project objectives and success criteria

• Manage interactions with various cross functional teams – engineering, product, data governance and operational teams

• Mobilize and manage a team to execute against project plans

• Lead business and technical design phases

• Lead teams with multiple discipline representation (especially technology, user experience, and product)

• Familiarity with Agile and Iterative Development

Your role and impact:

You will apply your knowledge to some of the firm’s most strategic, complex and high-valued projects. You will have the opportunity to drive scale, ensure consistency and reduce risk across the firm. This is not your traditional project management role; we are looking for world-class problem solvers who want to learn the details and be heavily involved in designing and implementing scalable solutions. We act as the “connective tissue” between the various lines of business by applying in-depth knowledge of BlackRock’s organization, processes and technology in order to execute change.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of work experience

• Ability to clearly articulate objectives and influence outcomes

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience in business process analysis, design, and implementation

• Experience in the investment management domain

• Ambitious and proactive – able to show initiative and come up with ideas without prompting

• Technical aptitude, understanding technology in a business context

• Experience working with global, distributed teams across multiple cultures and time zones

• Sense of curiosity and the courage to ask tough questions

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or Engineering preferred)

• Ability to drive the adoption of Scaled Agile practices across global teams. Should be proficient and certified in agile at scale methodologies such as SaFE, LeSS, Nexus etc.

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.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock (http://careers.blackrock.com/) | Twitter: @blackrock (https://twitter.com/blackrock) | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.