ETF Product Platform - BlackRock Global Markets, Vice President
About The Position
About this role BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs. About the Team: The ETF Platform team sits within BlackRock Global Markets & Index Investments (BGM), which brings together Index Investments, Markets, Liquidity & Financing, and Platform & Strategy. BGM delivers superior market access and investment outcomes through: World-class expertise spanning investment insight, markets, risk management, and process design Embedded technology teams developing cutting-edge intellectual property to drive scale, quality, and risk control Market leadership focused on accessibility, resilience, transparency, and lower costs for investors The ETF Platform team designs and delivers scalable products and operating models across the ETF value chain. The team evolves workflows, infrastructure, and market architecture to enable innovation within the ETF wrapper. Role Overview: This role is on the US ETF Platform team, driving platform and market transformation to support BlackRock’s ETF innovation and growth agenda, working across investment, trading, operations and product teams. The candidate will be expected to bring deep ETF market and industry expertise to innovate and expand the ETF platform—unlocking new operating models, instruments, strategies, and ecosystem connectivity. The role requires strong partnerships across the business and externally to design scalable, risk-focused solutions and leading industry engagement to support continued platform evolution.
Requirements
- Markets, investment or technology acumen with a drive and curiosity at their intersection
- Innovative, solutions-oriented mindset with experience transforming our platform and markets
- Strong partnership orientation, connecting teams and leveraging technology to achieve target-state evolution
- Execution-focused, data-driven decision maker with strong delivery discipline
- A focus on risk management, comprehensively mitigating risk of today and the future
Responsibilities
- Lead the evolution and re-architecture of the ETF platform to support product growth, scale and risk oversight
- Design ETF operating model and workflows for new strategies or exposures within an ETF wrapper
- Drive ecosystem development to support scaling and trading of our ETF product suite, ensuring ETF participants such as Authorized Participants (APs) and market makers can effectively support new products
- Evolve primary market models to enhance investor protection, liquidity, commercial efficiency, and regulatory alignment
- Embed ETF market expertise into platform development, delivering innovative and scalable solutions across the ETF lifecycle
Benefits
- employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
