Associate, Associate Product Manager

Description

About this role

About Aperio

At Aperio (part of BlackRock), our strategies are designed to put our clients' and their clients' interests at the center of our investment advice; to minimize costs and taxes; and to incorporate each client's unique environmental, social, and governance (ESG) preferences. We are a purposefully growing quantitative/index-tracking investment management business specializing in managing customized equity portfolios tax efficiently.

At Aperio, we work hard and move quickly as a well-coordinated, collaborative team whose exceptional people are focused on providing extraordinary client service. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow and contribute in a fun, industry-disruptive, fast-paced environment, Aperio is the place for you.

About this role

The Associate Product Manager owns the development of business and technical requirements supporting business initiatives to improve scalability of processes and systems, as well as, ensuring any changes are tested fully.

Key responsibilities

Business processes and requirements

• Act as the central point of contact between business users and systems development for both new and existing systems
• Partner with team members, developers, and third-party software providers to improve efficiencies and enhance the usability and user experience of internal/external systems and workflows
• Document current-state processes, perform gap analyses, and guide future-state process design to enable scalable growth
• Analyze and improve internal processes with a focus on process automation and quality

System requirements, user stories, and UAT

• With a focus on user experience and workflow, capture business requirements, translate them into system requirements for developers, and prioritize them
• Ensure requirements evolve into user documentation such that they are simultaneously published as features are released
• Drive adoption of new features for systems both by working closely with quality assurance engineers and by organizing and participating in user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Work with the Product Manager to evaluate and assess the impact of new products or changes to current products and systems, and make recommendations for how systems should evolve to align with client needs

Data requirements and documentation

• Ensure data interfaces between all teams are fully documented and agreed
• Provide support to business users by generating ad hoc reports, investigating potential issues with data flow, and/or researching the viability of a suggested improvement
• Oversee manual data load processes
• Optimize the services of our partnered vendors by effectively managing the relationships and their deliverables
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Three-plus years of related experience working in financial services in business process improvement/engineering/project or product management
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Business analysis experience
• Exposure to working with systems developers on custom software, preferably in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with databases and writing simple SQL queries

Other Desirable Skills & Abilities

• Proven ability to reengineer or improve a process
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to gather, analyze, and present data to different audiences
• Capacity to understand a process at a high level, while still drilling into details
• Thorough understanding of process mapping, data collection, data analysis, procedure writing, and writing effective requirements documentation
• Organizational skills to manage data, projects, and processes
• Experience with Salesforce, Advent, and Sylvan

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.