Director, Data Product Management

About this role

About the team
BlackRocks Americas Client Business (ACB) manages the firms relationships with financial services firms financial advisors and institutional clients across the U.S. Canada and Latin America. ACB represents the full suite of BlackRock strategies ETFs managed accounts alternatives portfolio solutions outsourced CIO and sub-advisory mandates with a mandate to deliver One BlackRock to our clients.

The ACB Data & AI Transformation team sits at the center of this effort. Our mission is to advance ACBs AI ambitions by shaping trusted consumable data and delivering AI-driven solutions that help our partners achieve their commercial objectives. We are organized into two pillars Product (strategy prioritization partnerships) and Engineering (build deploy operate) working together to deliver AI applications and data products that drive measurable impact across sales marketing and operations.

Role Summary
This role leads the Data Product Management function within ACB Data & AI Transformation with responsibility for a team of domain-focused data product managers and product owners. Reporting to the Head of ACB Data & AI Product Strategy this Director sets the vision roadmap and operating standards for how ACB builds and scales data products that power commercial outcomes.

The remit spans multiple data domains including engagement and interaction data (marketing digital CRM events) coverage and segmentation asset/trade data and share-of-wallet/competitor asset data with focus shifting based on business priority.

Beyond running the team this leader serves as a senior connector across ACB partnering with business heads Engineering AI and Relationship Management leaders to align priorities and ensure data products translate into measurable adoption and impact. Success looks like a high-performing team a coherent multi-domain roadmap and an increase in how ACB uses data and AI to drive commercial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead coach and grow a team of data product managers and product owners aligned to core ACB data domains
• Develop talent through ongoing feedback stretch assignments and structured career growth building bench strength for senior product roles
• Foster a culture of ownership commercial orientation and product discipline

Data Product Strategy and Roadmap Ownership

• Define and own the multi-domain data product strategy and roadmap aligned to firmwide and business unit priorities
• Establish prioritization frameworks and governance to make tradeoffs explicit across competing demands
• Translate business strategy into a coherent portfolio of data products ensuring the teams roadmaps ladder up to enterprise outcomes
• Set standards for product definition requirements quality and acceptance criteria that Engineering can build against consistently
• Serve as the senior point of partnership for ACB business leaders across Marketing Sales Enablement Distribution Product and Operations

AI Enablement Across the Data Portfolio

• Ensure data products across domains are designed to power downstream AI use cases including targeting personalization insights and agentic workflows
• Partner with AI and platform teams to move capabilities from experimentation into production
• Embed AI fluency into the teams product practice ensuring data structure quality and accessibility decisions are made with AI consumption in mind

What Were Looking For

Background and Experience

• 10 years in data product management analytics or business intelligence ideally in financial services or a similarly data-intensive environment
• 4 years of people management experience leading 3-5 person teams of data or other product managers/product owners.
• Experience working across multiple data domains with familiarity with how data flows across CRM systems marketing platforms and analytics infrastructure
• Experience writing product requirements managing backlogs and working in an agile delivery model
• Ability to work with business and engineering leadership to guide priorities and refine requirements across various data product domains

Skills and Capabilities

• Strategic product leadership: Sets vision defines outcomes and drives a coherent roadmap across multiple domains rather than managing tasks
• Senior stakeholder presence: Operates credibly with business heads Engineering leadership and senior client-facing partners; able to influence without authority
• Team builder: Develops product talent sets a high bar for product craft and creates an environment where the team can deliver at pace
• Commercial orientation: Frames data and AI investments in terms of measurable business outcomes adoption efficiency revenue impact
• Strong data and AI fluency: Sufficient technical depth (SQL Snowflake modern data platforms AI/ML concepts Azure DevOps/Jira) to engage credibly with engineers and AI partners and make informed tradeoffs
• Operational discipline: Builds for repeatability strong instincts around process documentation and measurement

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

BlackRocks 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 weve provided guidanceon 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 childrens 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.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment the one we make in our employees. Its why were dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed valued and supported with networks benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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