Description
We are seeking a highly experienced, senior leader with deep expertise in the Wealth Management space to lead the organization towards the next generation of BlackRock’s SMA platform.
Job Summary: The successful candidate will play a critical role in modernizing and scaling SMA capabilities across portfolio management, trading, and operations. The role combines platform strategy and architecture, cross-functional program leadership, and operating model design and process transformation.
Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve the end-to-end SMA platform’s business architecture across portfolio management, trading, compliance, and operations workflows.
- Identify integration points across the SMA platform, and dependent systems.
- Ensure platform design supports scale, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
- Translate SMA business strategy into clear product roadmaps, architectural blueprints, and delivery plans.
- Lead alignment across product, engineering, operations, data, and risk teams.
- Drive program-level execution, including planning, prioritization, and dependency management.
- Design and implement scalable workflows across the investment lifecycle.
- Introduce standards, playbooks, and governance for execution at scale.
- Drive adoption of new platform capabilities across portfolio managers, traders, and operations teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve automation, data quality, and workflow efficiency.
Qualifications:
- 10-15+ years in investment management, leading cross-functional programs at scale.
- Strong knowledge of an existing SMA investment platform.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.
- Ability to translate business vision into architecture strategy, roadmaps, and structured objectives.
- Strong commercial intuition.
- Mastery of agile approach to SDLC.
- Executive presence with excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Salary Range: For San Francisco, CA: $215,000.00 - $275,000.00 per year For Princeton, NJ: $195,000.00 - $245,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)