Description
We are looking to recruit a Director to join BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory group, based in New York City.
This position will play a central role in shaping and delivering FMA’s strategy in the Americas, combining senior-level client advisory, commercial leadership and talent development.
The Director will be expected to act as a senior thought partner to FMA leadership, helping to identify priority themes, grow key client relationships, and build new advisory and investment collaboration opportunities aligned with BlackRock’s broader commercial objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Exemplify BlackRock’s fiduciary culture and deliver consistently high-quality advisory outcomes for clients.
- Help shape FMA’s strategic direction in the Americas, including identifying growth priorities, emerging themes, and opportunities for new offerings or partnerships.
- Direct and manage large, multi-disciplinary project teams, incorporating subject matter experts, data and analytical specialists, researchers and generalists.
- Lead engagement design and planning, acting as the central point of coordination across multiple concurrent projects.
- Serve as a primary day-to-day liaison with clients, including senior executive stakeholders.
- Play a hands-on role in project execution through content creation, problem-solving, quantitative analysis and provision of solutions-oriented advice.
- Drive meaningful commercial impact, including originating new engagements, expanding existing relationships, and translating ideas into scaled advisory or investment collaborations.
- Interact with BlackRock and client senior management, industry participants, lenders, developers and other investors.
- Act as a senior leader, mentor and coach to the team, developing talent, strengthening project leadership capabilities, and fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
Knowledge/Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in the financial sector, with a preference for investment or corporate banking, strategy consulting, advisory or investment experience.
- Demonstrated record of commercial impact, including business building, revenue generation, or expansion of senior client relationships.
- Deep understanding of capital markets, with broad-based experience across a range of asset classes, including in private markets.
- Demonstrated understanding of the operating model and balance sheets of key financial ecosystem participants such as banks, insurance companies, pension funds and other asset owners.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments, with the judgement and drive to build new client solutions or offerings where no predefined playbook exists.
- Strategic mindset, with the ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior executives and to shape longer-term agendas.
- Strong entrepreneurial orientation, with a track record of identifying opportunities and translating them into tangible outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, develop and coach diverse teams in a high-intensity environment.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, intellectual curiosity and sound judgement.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesise complex issues clearly for senior audiences.
- Strong organisational skills, resilience under pressure, and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Strong quantitative and technical skills, with a passion for finance, markets and/or sustainability concepts.
Benefits:
- Salary range: USD $210,000 - $270,000
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)