Technical Product Manager (Aladdin Engineering Platform) - Vice President

latform Team is laser focused on the speed of product delivery, execution predictability and quality. The Platform team is responsible for a suite of foundational and modern products including API Management, Orchestration, and our cloud infrastructure. The Platform product management office helps to catalyze our engineering community, delivering well-defined Platform products that have clear outcome-oriented roadmaps and efficient and predictable delivery.

Job background

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to drive the transformation and delivery of our Aladdin Graph, the backbone of our platform's data connectivity and interoperability. As the lead Product Manager you will be responsible for defining product strategy, vision, and own the product roadmap. You will work hand in hand with engineering to drive strategic outcomes, platform adoption and ultimately enable fast delivery of Aladdin features and unlock commercial opportunities. We are looking for a seasoned technical product manager with experience in delivering scalable, flexible core platform products.

Success depends on your ability to understand our technology stack and strategy, and Aladdin's commercial strategy; combining these to drive product developments for Platforms key products that will transform our ability and clients to build on Aladdin. You will be responsible for prioritizing product build and lead execution in partnership with both the engineering team and other stakeholders to deliver strategic products. You are comfortable orchestrating discussion, defining complex requirements and driving decisions in a matrixed organization.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and KPIs that will transform and differentiate the offering; You will do this by translating our platform strategy, commercial priorities, and our users' needs into a product vision and feature priorities.

• Drive value realization through incremental release and the adoption of those features by Product Engineering and partner products

• Influence senior stakeholders & partners to draw alignment on vision and deliver the highest value product offering with the greatest commercial opportunity.

• Drive product execution by defining, building and launching on our product evolution. You will prioritize build across features and oversee delivery.

• Demonstrate an expert understanding of target customer personas, particularly their needs and their pain points, including developers (both external and internal) and integrators.

• Manage dependencies across teams to ensure alignment and mitigate risks.

Essential Skills And Experience

• Product management experience of minimum 6+ years, leading all aspects of development from vision to delivery and adoption.

• Strong understanding of API design (REST, gRPC, Protobuf) and event-driven architectures.

• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, entitlements, and multi-tenant security models.

• Experience with cloud-native platforms and service mesh concepts.

• Can navigate ambiguity with ease

• Deep technical understanding of platform capabilities and ability to define and build specific features at a detailed level

• Significant experience of delivering technology implementations using agile development methodologies.

• Teamwork - ability to work as part of a geographically diverse team.

• Excellent communication skills in navigating a matrixed organization, tell compelling stories with ease to senior executives, and inspire teams about things that should exist that don't exist yet

• Strong analytical mindset and ability to use sound data and logic to make compelling business cases.

• A bias toward action and a proven track record of delivering at rapid speed.

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

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$162,500.00 - USD$215,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, 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.

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