Description
BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We're looking for a Technical Project Manager to support the delivery of cross-functional, product and platform focused initiatives critical to the growth and operational excellence of our core products and services.
You will work closely with engineering, product, and cross-functional partners to help move initiatives from planning through execution. You will play a meaningful role in driving progress, maintaining alignment, and ensuring teams have the structure and visibility they need to deliver.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and drive cross-functional technical and product initiatives through planning, execution, delivery, and post-launch follow-up
- Provide hands-on project support across the software development lifecycle, including planning, dependency tracking, progress monitoring, risk identification, incident management, and stakeholder communications
- Partner with engineering, product, and operations to maintain strong collaboration and clear communication across teams
- Help manage timelines, dependencies, and competing priorities across multiple teams and initiatives
- Instrument and monitor program health using metrics and derived insights
- Facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives for one or more teams
- Contribute to improving processes, documentation, and workflows to increase execution speed, visibility, and team effectiveness
- Use tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows where appropriate to support planning, reporting, and documentation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 3–5+ years of experience working with software engineering teams in a technical program management, project management, software development, or similar role
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile delivery methodologies
- Experience coordinating cross-functional work with multiple stakeholders and dependencies
- Proficiency with tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Airtable, and AI-enabled tools used throughout the planning and delivery phases of projects
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern software development practices, languages and frameworks
- Experience working in investment management / wealth management
The salary range for this position is USD$125,000.00 - USD$155,000.00. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits.