Associate, Product Manager

About this role

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 the Role

We are seeking a Product Manager to support the design and delivery of cross-functional product, platform, and operating-model initiatives critical to the continued growth and operational efficiency of BlackRock’s Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) business. The role partners with Portfolio Management, Trading, Operations, and Engineering to deliver scalable systems and workflows that improve efficiency, reduce operational risk, and support business growth.

This role is well suited to someone who combines technical fluency with strong business judgment, structured problem solving, and disciplined execution. The successful candidate will be intellectually curious, highly organized, comfortable working through ambiguity, and motivated to improve complex investment and operational workflows. They will partner closely with portfolio managers, traders, operations, engineers, and other product teams to understand business needs, translate them into actionable requirements, and move defined initiatives from discovery through implementation and post-launch stabilization. They will help teams maintain alignment, will surface risks and dependencies early, and ensure that designed solutions deliver real improvements to stakeholders while minimizing operational risk.

Key Responsibilities

Product Analysis and Delivery

• Develop deep end-to-end expertise in portfolio management, trading, client onboarding, account servicing, and investment operations workflows across SMA Solutions.
• Gather, analyze, and prioritize requirements, balancing business value, risk, resources, and delivery constraints.
• Use data and business context to recommend practical, scalable solutions.
• Partner with engineers, testers, users, and third-party providers throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Support testing, release readiness, user adoption, and continuous product improvement.

• Own defined product and technical workstreams from discovery through design, development, testing, launch, and post-launch stabilization.

Stakeholder and Execution Management

• Manage and coordinate interactions between business users, Product Management, Engineering, and external providers.
• Track deliverables, dependencies, and project risks, escalating issues promptly and transparently.
• Prepare clear recommendations and decision materials that enable senior product and business leaders to resolve complex design or prioritization questions.
• Manage workstream plans, dependencies, risks, assumptions, decisions, constraints, and open questions across multiple stakeholder teams.
• Use automation and AI-assisted tools...