About this role  APM Associate – Product Manager, Investment OperationsBlackRock is one of the world’s leading asset management firms and Aladdin® is the firm’s an end-to-end operating system for investment professionals to see their whole portfolio, understand risk exposure, and act with precision. Aladdin is the central nervous system powering the investment decisions of both the firm and its clients; a $1+ bn technology business that has significant growth aspirations over the next five years. Our mission is to evolve Aladdin as a platform, open its architecture, and transform its design & create ease of use.Job backgroundWe are looking for Product Manager to join the Aladdin Investment Operations Product Management team and lead the Provider product area. This is one of the core components of Aladdin and is used by BlackRock as well as all the Aladdin customers.The position is a combination of Strategic and Tactical tasks. There are many strategic areas that need exploration, evaluation and prioritization, while in parallel ensuring that the tactical needs for continuing to operate the platform are met. It is a delicate balance of resource allocation and stakeholder management.You will support the end-to-end product road map. In this role, you will advance the regulatory requirements, feature development, automation, and user experience. On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for capturing requests from multiple stakeholders, capturing product requirements, translating these into our Agile operating model Epics and Feature stories and prioritizing them as part of the backlog grooming. You will also work very closely with both our UX design and engineering teams to bring the product to market.You will work as part of a dynamic and vertically integrated team that is based in Edinburgh. Additionally, the structure of the business internally means you will need to operate in a matrixed fashion with multiple stakeholders in functions like the Platforms team (infrastructure), Product Marketing, Client Services, etc. who are each focused on diverse clients and users. As you develop the product road map, you will need to skillfully solve for this complexity of users and stakeholders and bring people on the journey in an effective way.

Support the business case and rationale for new features and innovations.Keep leadership informed of the teams progress and provide a realistic picture of what is achievable with the resources at hand.

Aladdin Investment Ops Product Manager: inclusive of road map, delivery and results. You will translate product strategy into detailed requirements, backlogs and partner with design and engineering teams to bring those to life through concepts, wireframes, and final delivery in market.