Product Manager, Aladdin Wealth Tech, Associate Milano

Product Manager, Aladdin Wealth Tech, Associate
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Description

About this role

About this role

This product management role will work on Aladdin Wealth Tech's product capabilities for discretionary portfolio managers (DPM).

The individual will help advance our product vision in this area, evolve product/market fit, and drive roadmap planning, development, and delivery.

This role will work closely with a dedicated team of enass

gineers, designers, product marketers, QA, and other product managers.

The individual will also provide guidance and support to our business development, implementation, and relationship management teams in their engagements with prospective and live clients.

About Aladdin Wealth Tech

Aladdin Wealth Tech is BlackRock's technology business serving the global wealth management industry.

Our mission is to transform wealth management through technology, leading to better investment outcomes for more people.

Our users are financial advisors, bankers, CIOs, risk managers, portfolio managers, and business leaders of leading wealth managers.

We enable them to deliver better, more personalized portfolios to their clients and to differentiate and grow their wealth businesses.

We are a global team of product, engineering, client, implementation, and analytics professionals pioneering the next generation of wealthtech capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

The Associate Product Management role is ideal for an experienced product manager or technical professional with previous experience in portfolio management and/or wealth management looking to join a high-performance product team.

The role responsibilities include:

- Helping set the roadmap for the Portfolio Management product pillar, ensuring the roadmap is aligned to business priorities and making priority tradeoffs among competing opportunities and needs.

- Executing on the roadmap by defining requirements, developing product and technical designs, driving the SDLC to deliver high-quality software.

This role works closely and hands-on with designers to develop UX and UI designs, engineers to develop technical solutions, and QA to design and execute test plans.

- Working closely with Product Marketing to articulate value propositions and create client-facing collateral, demo sites, and demo scripts for new features.

- Contributing to innovation in the Product Pillar, including by extracting insights from usage data and user feedback, connecting dots across different product needs and client asks, and tracking competitor capabilities.

- Helping prepare for and participating in BD engagements to pitch to prospective clients and listening with a keen product ear to prospects' reception of the product.

- Engaging with live clients on our product capabilities to support our implementation and relationship management teams.

- Being an expert in the features within the Pillar and using this expertise in cross-functional solutioning and initiatives.

- Ensuring relevant service desk (bugs, questions, etc) inquiries are addressed efficiently and at high quality.

Desired Qualifications

- 3+ years of meaningful experience in the wealth management industry or in portfolio management

- 2+ years of meaningful experience in product management or a hands-on technical role

- Subject matter expertise in investments and/or trading (CFA or equivalent professional experience)

- Ability to and passion for empathizing deeply with users and acting on their behalf

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver presentations and communicate internally and externally at a range of seniority levels

- In addition to English (required), Italian and/or German language skills

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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 t