Blackstone Private Wealth - Product Specialist, Associate (Credit)

About the role

Product Specialists in Private Wealth play an integral role in providing investment detail to client stakeholders. They cover the entire product lifecycle, from fundraising through investment and return-of-capital. They provide domain knowledge and expertise on investments, performance, market dynamics, and competitors.

Responsibilities

• Assist in answering a broad range of client and sales team inquiries about Blackstone’s products, market views, etc.
• Analyze the competitive landscape through reviewing peers' filing documents, presentations, etc., and distill key qualitative and quantitative takeaways.
• Competence for client-facing work through Blackstone’s Legal & Compliance infrastructure.
• Work across other Private Wealth business functions in supporting product initiatives such as Marketing, Sales, Investor Services, Finance, etc.
• Enhance capital markets acumen to help contextualize Blackstone’s offerings in a diversified investment portfolio.
• Help identify areas of improvement across the team’s current processes to increase efficiency of information sharing, communication with sales, global coordination, etc.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience within Investment Banking, Investment Sales, or Asset Management.
• Series 7 and 63 or capability to obtain within a year of employment; CFA/CAIA a plus.
• Working knowledge of the Alternatives industry/competitive landscape and desire to learn more.
• Experience with Credit markets and investing, through a wealth lens is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to distill complex investment topics for end-users.
• Strong interpersonal skills to develop productive professional relationships with sales teams, investment teams, and other internal stakeholders.
• Proficiency with a variety of analytical tools (Microsoft office, Morningstar Direct, Bloomberg).