About this roleTeam OverviewBlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.About this RoleThe Associate Product Manager owns gap analyses and documentation of the resulting business and technical requirements supporting business initiatives to improve scale processes and systems and reduce errors.Duties and ResponsibilitiesProject Management
Assist in implementation of required changes.
Support the execution governance for the roadmaps, including communication of status and project management for associated projects.
Optimize the services of our partnered vendors by effectively managing the relationships and their deliverables.
Help groom requirements backlogs, bringing forward the highest priority requirements to be worked on next
Business Processes and Requirements
Act as the central point of contact between business users and systems development for both new and existing systems
Partner with team members, developers and 3rd party software providers to improve efficiencies and enhance the usability and user experience of internal/external systems and workflows
Document current state processes, perform gap analysis, and guide future state process design to enable scalable growth.
Analyze and improve internal processes with a focus on process automation and quality.
System Requirements, User stories and UAT
With a focus on user experience and workflow, capture business requirements, translate them into system requirements for developers and prioritize them
Ensure requirements evolve into user documentation such that they are simultaneously published as features get released
Drive adoption of new features for systems by working closely with QA engineers along with organizing and participating in user acceptance testing
Work with the Product Manager to evaluate and assess the impact of new products or changes to current products and systems, and make recommendations for how systems should evolve to align with client needs
Data Requirements and documentation
Ensure data interfaces between all teams is fully documented and agreed
Provide support to business users by generating ad-hoc reports, investigating potential issues with data flow, and/or researching the viability of a suggested improvement
Oversee manual data load processes
Optimize the services of our partnered vendors by effectively managing the relationships and their deliverables.
Other duties as assigned
Direct Reports
This role has no direct reports.
Minimum Requirements
3+ years of related experience working in asset management and/or a brokerage firm in business process improvement/engineering/project or product management.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related discipline.
Business Analysis experience
Experience working with systems developers on custom software, preferably in an agile environment.
Experience with databases and writing simple SQL queries
Other Desirable Skills & Abilities:
Proven ability to re-engineer or improve a process
Strong verbal and written communication
Ability to gather, analyze, and present data to different audiences
Ability to understand a process at a high level, while still drilling into details
For California only the salary range for this position is $125,000 - $150,000. 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 benefitsTo 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 modelBlackRock’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 BlackRockAt 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/blackrockBlackRock 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.We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and also any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.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.