Description
Data is at the heart of Aladdin, and the ability to acquire, govern, analyse and derive insights from data is increasingly a key differentiator for BlackRock and our clients.
Aladdin Data is responsible for the firm’s data ecosystem, helping ensure data can be discovered, trusted, accessed and used effectively across investment, operations, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and client solutions.
As Data Product Director, you will help define, deliver and drive adoption of marketplace capabilities spanning onboarding, governance, stewardship, discovery, access, quality and reusable data products.
Responsibilities
- Product strategy and roadmap: Define and execute the long-term vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap for the Data Marketplace and enterprise data product ecosystem.
- Delivery and execution: Translate business and governance needs into product features, measurable outcomes and delivery plans.
- Backlog ownership: Prioritise the product roadmap and engineering backlog based on user needs, adoption goals and strategic value.
- Stakeholder management: Partner across Product, Engineering, Operations, Risk, Compliance and business teams to align delivery with priorities.
- Adoption and enablement: Drive onboarding, documentation, demonstrations, release readiness and reuse of marketplace capabilities.
- AI and innovation: Shape capabilities that support AI-ready data, automation and scalable governance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technology, data, business or related discipline, with demonstrated depth of experience in Product Management, Data Product Management, Data Governance or a related discipline.
- Experience delivering, building or scaling enterprise data capabilities, including data marketplaces, data catalogues, governance, stewardship or enterprise data platforms.
- Proven ability to define roadmaps, manage priorities and lead cross-functional initiatives, including large-scale data transformation, modernisation or platform adoption.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies and product management tooling.
- Excellent communication, presentation and executive stakeholder management skills.
- Extensive experience in asset management, capital markets, investment operations or financial services, with domain expertise spanning one or more relevant areas such as trading, accounting and performance, asset servicing, market and reference data, risk and analytics, regulatory reporting, sustainability, private markets or enterprise functions.
Benefits
- Retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future;
- Access to education reimbursement;
- Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being;
- Family support programs;
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.