Portfolio Analytics, Technology Product Manager, Vice President
BlackRock · New York, United States · 14d ago
About this role
The Analytics Product team empowers investment and risk management decisions for BlackRock and Aladdin clients through models, analytics, research, and investor workflows. The team delivers value by developing applied solutions, enabling new opportunities with fit-for-purpose analytics, and contributing subject matter expertise across the client lifecycle.
Working closely with partner teams across the Aladdin Business, Analytics Product supports the analytics and product development lifecycle with end-to-end ownership. The team accelerates model development and delivery, supports new model features and infrastructure enhancements, drives adoption across the Aladdin community, and promotes model quality through disciplined processes and governance.
Analytics Product also helps shape the multiyear strategy for analytics and investor workflows, including private markets and whole-portfolio analytics, analytics infrastructure, Open Analytics, and application programming interfaces (APIs). The team combines problem-solving, product vision, financial expertise, technology, and a scalable operating model to address investment, risk, and client needs. Its work is focused on commercial outcomes, industry leadership, artificial intelligence (AI), and rewarding career opportunities.
Your role and impact
As a Vice President and Portfolio Analytics, Technology Product Manager in Analytics Product, you will serve as a subject matter expert in portfolio construction, optimization, and simulation analytics while owning analytics as a product. You will help develop impactful, fit-for-purpose, enterprise-grade solutions for Aladdin clients across regions and industries.
You will partner closely with colleagues across the Aladdin Client Business, Aladdin Financial Engineering, and Aladdin Product teams to evolve Aladdin’s analytics capabilities. Your work will help translate client needs, market developments, and industry opportunities into scalable analytics products and solutions.
Your responsibilities
In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:
- Enhance BlackRock’s Aladdin platform by developing AI-driven portfolio construction, strategic asset allocation, total portfolio approach, optimization, and simulation analytics, models, and processes in response to market demands, industry events, credit market expansion, and regulatory change.
- Apply AI technologies to advance portfolio construction and simulation capabilities, accelerate product innovation, and deliver scalable client solutions.
- Evaluate evolving market dynamics and stakeholder needs to influence the analytics roadmap and prioritize high-impact product capabilities.
- Contribute to firmwide initiatives that advance analytics capabilities, strengthen strategic partnerships, and improve client outcomes.
- Address complex industry challenges and demonstrate Aladdin’s capabilities by developing customized, fit-for-purpose solutions and analyses for targeted client and prospective-client use cases.
- Apply subject matter expertise and thought leadership to support client engagement across presale, implementation, and adoption activities.
- Provide guidance on sophisticated analytics inquiries to clients and partners across Client Business, Client Services, Analytics Production, and Product teams.
Your experience
Candidates should demonstrate an ability to solve complex, real-world problems within investment and risk management businesses. Strong quantitative expertise, product judgment, stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and commercial judgment will support success in this role.
- 5–10 years of experience applying quantitative methods and advanced analytics to develop, deploy, or use financial models, with expertise in areas such as portfolio construction, optimization, economic scenario simulation, strategic asset allocation, or macroeconomic analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, ambiguous, cross-functional analytics initiatives from concept through execution while managing competing priorities, setting expectations, and delivering with attention to detail.
- Degree in engineering, finance, economics, mathematics, business management, or another quantitative field of study.
- Ability to use programming and analytical tools, such as Python, advanced Excel, or comparable tools, to support quantitative analysis and product development.
- Strong quantitative and technical capabilities, including the ability to identify complex analytics problems, design and communicate solutions, and apply artificial intelligence techniques to deliver practical, scalable outcomes.
- Strong understanding of financial markets and the ability to evaluate how market events affect portfolios, analytics, and client workflows.
- Strong project management, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to organize workflows and explain complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
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.
Guidance on AI use for candidates
At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
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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