ETF Product Platform - BlackRock Global Markets, Vice President
About the 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
- Designing and delivering scalable products and operating models across the ETF value chain
- Evolving workflows, infrastructure, and market architecture to enable innovation within the ETF wrapper
Key Responsibilities
This person will be responsible for partnering across the firm to evolve our ETF platform, providing innovative solutions to expand the ETF wrapper, designing scaled solutions, with a focus on risk management, and industry engagement.
- 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
Skills & Experience
- 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
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.
Guidance on AI use for candidates
At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok.
Equal Employment Opportunity
BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.
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