Associate, Product Manager

BlackRock•Atlanta, GA

5d•$112,000 - $162,500•Hybrid

About The Position

This role sits within BlackRock's Product team and focuses on enabling scalable and efficient data delivery and data management for portfolio management, investment operations, and client service teams in the Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) Solutions business. The Product Manager will own data domains and delivery processes that support investment operations, billing, client servicing, and reporting workflows, partnering closely with engineering, operations, and client service teams to build and improve data pipelines, reporting, and tooling. BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset strategies. Its personalized portfolios use individual securities, BlackRock Mutual Funds, and iShares ETFs to serve high-net-worth, ultra-high-net-worth, and institutional clients.

Requirements

Five years of experience in product management, product ownership, or software engineering in agile teams.
Ability to scope and deliver features, epics, and releases in collaboration with engineers and QA.
Comfort building working prototypes and navigating complex data models.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Ability to elicit requirements, negotiate priorities, and communicate clearly with stakeholders across technology and business teams.
Experience building product roadmaps and managing delivery against them.
Hands-on proficiency designing and building data management processes using ETL tools, SQL, Python, PowerBI, or similar tools.
Familiarity with fixed income and equity asset classes in wealth management.
Understanding of post-trade processing through reconciliation and client servicing workflows for retail SMA portfolios.
Strong analytical, detail-oriented, and problem-solving skills.
Commitment to collaborating with Agentic AI to enhance productivity and evolve development processes.

Nice To Haves

Product management, product ownership, or software engineering experience in financial services or wealth technology.
Advanced degree or certification in product management.
Familiarity with Aladdin, order management, portfolio accounting, or performance measurement.
Creative thinker who challenges the status quo and pursues excellence.

Responsibilities

Develop an understanding of current end-to-end data delivery processes and technical architecture.
Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Operations, and Client Service to deliver data and reporting solutions that enable product and scalability initiatives.
Act as product owner for data products spanning reporting, billing, and investment operations data flows.
Define requirements and acceptance criteria for engineers.
Drive automation and process improvement to reduce manual data handling and increase straight-through processing.
Participate in defining what “data as a product” means for BlackRock’s SMA organization.