Aladdin Product, Sustainability, Associate

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.

What is Aladdin Sustainability?

Being a part of BlackRock means being a part of a community of smart, results-oriented people who are pursuing some of the world's most sophisticated financial challenges. And our founder-led culture has maintained its results-oriented feel - we work hard, we work as a team, and we work with purpose. At the heart of BlackRock is Aladdin, a tech platform that unifies the investment management process-through a common data language-to enable scale, provide insights and support true business transformation.

Within Aladdin, the Aladdin Sustainability team drives the product development and client delivery of sustainability data, analytics, and technology for the firm and its clients The team is part of the Aladdin and partners significantly with several groups across BlackRock like Aladdin Engineering (AE). Being a member of this team means you are responsible for incorporating sustainability analytics throughout the investment lifecycle - you will work horizontally to build innovative, sustainability focused technology solutions that shape the way information, people, and technology intersect within financial markets.

Job Purpose/ Background

Sitting at the intersection of business and technology, the Associate, Product Manager joining Aladdin Sustainability will work closely with developers, researchers, and other stakeholders to innovate, conceptualize, design and pilot new sustainability capabilities across the investment lifecycle. The position is a combination of both strategic and tactical tasks. There are many strategic areas that need exploration, evaluation, and prioritization, while in parallel ensuring that the tactical needs for continuing to deliver the product are met.

In this role, you will advance the regulatory requirements, feature development, automation, and user experience of Aladdin Sustainability. On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for capturing requests from multiple stakeholders, documenting product requirements, translating these into our Agile operating model Epics and Feature stories and prioritizing them as part of the backlog grooming. You will work very closely with both our engineering and UX design teams to bring the product to market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partners with teams across the Aladdin, including commercial, product, analytics, engineering, and BlackRock Sustainable Investing to drive forward strategic product decisions that accelerate the Aladdin Sustainability offering.
• Collaborates and facilitates discussion and requirements between product, business and engineering teams
• Examine client practices and compare them to industry standards (e.g., understand how the regulatory landscape impacts how our clients incorporate sustainability analytics)
• Evaluates business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing specifications for both near and longer-term solutions
• Attending and helping manage all key agile development rituals such as stand-ups, grooming, planning, demos, and retrospectives with a goal of running the sprints
• Maintain feature boards with engineering to ensure timely and accurate status reports
• Produces key artifacts that are critical to the delivery of excellent software products including:

• Business Requirement Documents
• Data Definition Documents
• Product Release Notes
• Use Cases & User Stories
• Test Cases

Skills and Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in either investment management, product management or sustainability related businesses
• Keen curiosity about climate change and sustainability topics, financial markets and ability to comprehend the impact of market events
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey sophisticated concepts simply and effectively to clients
• Understanding of product and software development lifecycles
• Experience interacting with product stakeholders, including end users and software developers

• Ability to use data and clearly articulate sophisticated ideas, both written and oral, to internal and external audiences across levels of seniority

For New York City only: The salary range for this position is $118,750 - $135,000. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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 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.