Aladdin Business, Product Marketing Manager (Portfolio Construction), Vice President

Job Description

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s leading asset management firms and Aladdin® is the central nervous system powering the investment decisions of both the firm and its clients. Aladdin is a $1bn technology business that has significant growth aspirations over the next five years.

The Product Marketing team is focused on driving awareness, engagement, and adoption for the Aladdin’s Portfolio Management offering across the community. As part of this team, you connect directly with our users to understand their business problems and help deliver solutions across active, passive, multi-asset and ETF Managers. We partner with product and client teams to build products that deliver a superior user experience and have a robust community of evangelists.

In this role, the successful candidate is responsible for defining and executing plans to deliver happy customers throughout the product lifecycle. This includes incorporating awareness of market themes and portfolio manager priorities to measure and optimize product and feature adoption.

Primary responsibilities

• Devise and implement strategies to measure and increase engagement and enablement for existing portfolio managers on the platform
• Partner with sales teams to grow Aladdin’s market share for portfolio construction workflows for institutional portfolio managers
• Work with internal teams to create high-quality product communications and marketing assets
• Assist in the development of narratives to the community on Aladdin’s portfolio management technology capabilities – demonstrating to them how Aladdin can be used to produce analysis, model orders, and execute on client investment strategies even in changing market conditions
• Connect industry knowledge and market trends with user feedback to influence product decisions and prioritization
• Assist in Aladdin business development activities as a subject matter expert – attending prospect meetings, participating in proof-of-concept sessions, and crafting gold copy responses to RFPs

Essential skills / experience

• 7+ years product marketing, product management, or project management experience with a focus on products for financial services or portfolio management
  • Familiarity with active and passive equity and fixed income portfolio construction, rebalance, target management, equitization and optimization workflows are preferred.
  • An understanding of the buyside order management & portfolio construction process
  • Experience with leveraging technology to solve business problems
  • Ability to collect and distil requirements from internal and external users to provide technology partners with a clear understanding of enhancement opportunities and their relative priority
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly to clients
• Track record of influencing behaviour at various levels in the organization including cross-functional leaders
• Candidates with bilingual (Japanese proficiency or multi-lingual skills are preferred).
• Self-starter who enjoys working in a fast paced, high-intensity environment

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 pilot

BlackRock’s current hybrid work pilot is designed to help you experience the best of both worlds: the opportunity to connect with colleagues in person and the flexibility to work remotely, with greater time to focus on what’s important to you. In line with local health guidance and regulations, employees are generally expected to work 3 days in the office and 2 days from home (on average) each week. For some business groups, more time may be required in the office, while greater flexibility may be in place for others. Our “One BlackRock” culture means you’ll be supported to collaborate with your new colleagues while bringing your full self to work – wherever you are.

The health, safety and well-being of our people will always be our top priorities; we will continue to monitor local conditions and health advisories in making decisions about our work environments.

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.