Director, Technology Product Management

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Team Overview BlackRock 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 role With over $230B in client assets across direct index and active investment strategies, SMA Solutions is a rapidly growing business within Blackrock’s US Wealth Advisory group (~10% org growth rate). Our personalized portfolios utilize individual securities, BlackRock Mutual Funds, and iShares ETFs to customize, diversify, and tailor investment solutions to high net worth/ultra-high net worth, mass affluent, and institutional clients. We are seeking a highly experienced, senior leader with deep expertise in the Wealth Management space (ideally with Separately Managed Account (SMA) vehicles) to lead the organization towards the next generation of BlackRock’s SMA platform. The role requires deep knowledge of technology with a broad knowledge of investment management and SMA products and business processes. This role will partner closely with product, engineering, operations, and compliance teams to define business architecture, connect workflows to technical epics, and ensure scalable execution across investment, trading, and servicing domains. The role combines: - Platform strategy and architecture - Cross-functional program leadership - Operating model design and process transformation The successful candidate will play a critical role in modernizing and scaling SMA capabilities across portfolio management, trading, and operations.

Requirements

10-15+ years in investment management, leading cross functional programs at scale (product + engineering), with direct experience in SMA technology, and portfolio lifecycle (portfolio construction, trading, compliance, post trade workflows).
Strong knowledge of an existing SMA investment platform.
Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.
Ability to translate business vision into architecture strategy, roadmaps, and structured objectives.
Strong commercial intuition—able to prioritize based on business value, risk, scale, and industry/regulatory trends.
Mastery of agile approach to SDLC (PI planning, metrics driven delivery, release planning, scaled frameworks)
Executive presence with excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills; comfortable influencing at all levels (from technical teams to commercial groups to senior executives)
Success in building and delivering complex platform products in a matrixed organization
Experience leveraging AI tools to improve SDLC delivery and to enhance product capabilities
Bachelor's degree required

Nice To Haves

advanced degree (MBA, CFA, etc.) a plus

Responsibilities

Platform & Architecture Leadership: Define and evolve the end-to-end SMA platform’s business architecture across portfolio management, trading, compliance, and operations workflows.
Identify integration points across the SMA platform, and dependent systems (e.g., accounting, UMA, data platforms).
Ensure platform design supports scale, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
Strategy-to-Execution Translation: Translate SMA business strategy into clear product roadmaps, architectural blueprints, and delivery plans.
Break down initiatives into epics, features, and measurable outcomes.
Balance tradeoffs across business value, risk, and delivery constraints.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead alignment across product, engineering, operations, data, and risk teams.
Drive program-level execution, including planning, prioritization, and dependency management.
Partner with stakeholders to manage scope, sequencing, and delivery commitments.
Support development and implementation of new investment products together with Business Development, Product, Quantitative Research, and Platform Integrations teams.
Operating Model and Process Transformation: Design and implement scalable workflows across the investment lifecycle.
Define ownership boundaries across product, engineering, and operations.
Introduce standards, playbooks, and governance for execution at scale.
Change Management and Adoption: Drive adoption of new platform capabilities across portfolio managers, traders, and operations teams.
Ensure readiness across process, tooling, and controls.
Establish feedback loops to continuously improve platform usability and outcomes.
Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Identify opportunities to improve automation, data quality, and workflow efficiency.
Leverage emerging technologies to enhance scale and productivity.