Associate Technical Product Manager, AI/ML Platforms

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.

We are seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead the development of our AI/ML Platform that enables BlackRock to leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. As a Technical Product Manager, you will work closely with engineers, data scientists, researchers, and business partners to define and deliver the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the AI Platform. You will also collaborate with other product teams across BlackRock to understand their AI needs and ensure the platform meets their requirements.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Define and execute the product roadmap for the ML core infrastructure, ensuring alignment with BlackRock's strategic goals and client needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including across Platform Engineering, AI Engineering, Aladdin Teams, investors, and researchers to develop and integrate AI capabilities into the BlackRock platform.
• Own AI Research environment to help data scientists and model engineers to train new ML models, fine-tune LLMs, and build custom models for research within BlackRock’s walled garden.
• Own the process for the deployment of ML models and LLMs into production within BlackRock’s walled garden.
• Manage the full product lifecycle, from ideation and development to deployment and support of ML models across our clients, ensuring a consistent and high-quality user experience across the Aladdin ecosystem.
• Engage with our users and stakeholders to gather feedback and identify opportunities for product enhancements and new AI-driven features.
• Stay abreast of the latest AI trends and technologies to drive innovation and maintain BlackRock's competitive edge in the market.

Qualifications

• 3+ years proven experience in product management, preferably in the financial technology sector.
• Strong technical understanding of platform development and deployment at scale at large enterprises.
• Strong technical background with an understanding of AI and ML technologies and their application in financial services.
• Experience with cloud-enabled AI platforms such as Azure Machine Learning, Google Vertex AI, or Amazon Bedrock.
• Experience with shipping GenAI products to production.
• Knowledge of foundational GenAI concepts such as prompt engineering, popular LLMs, model quality & governance, finetuning, and RAG.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable product plans.
• Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to delivering exceptional value to clients.
• Experience working with teams in a scaled agile development environment.

Our Benefits

To 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 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.