About this role
We are seeking a Director, Product to lead strategy and execution for a key product domain supporting private‑markets investors. This role is central to advancing our platform’s data, insights, and workflow capabilities for customers across the alternatives ecosystem.
As a Director, you will define long‑term product direction, shape multi‑year roadmaps, and drive cross‑functional execution across engineering, design, research, marketing, sales, and customer success. You will ensure that our products directly enable investors, deal teams, and market participants to operate with deeper insight, greater efficiency, and better outcomes. This role is ideal for a product leader who thrives in cross‑functional, platform‑building environments and is motivated by the opportunity to influence the next generation of private‑markets capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and own the product strategy for your domain, ensuring it aligns with customer needs, market insights, and commercial priorities.
- Drive the full product lifecycle, from early‑stage discovery through launch, iteration, and scaled adoption.
- Engage deeply with private‑markets customers, translating deal‑team workflows and data needs into actionable product requirements.
- Work cross‑functionally with engineering, design, research, and go‑to‑market teams to deliver high‑quality, timely product outcomes.
- Mentor and develop Product Managers, elevating product craft, delivery quality, and cross‑functional collaboration.
- Champion data‑driven decisions, using analytics, market intelligence, customer feedback, and platform usage data to refine priorities.
- Communicate strategy and progress to senior stakeholders clearly and without ambiguity.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Strong customer empathy with the ability to convert complex workflows into intuitive product solutions.
- Commercial acumen with a demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize high‑impact opportunities.
- Proven track record of delivering products in iterative, discovery‑driven environments.
- Experience leading Product Managers and shaping high‑performing product teams.
- Analytical, structured, and comfortable using data to guide decisions.
- High ownership mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and end‑to‑end accountability.
Strongly Preferred Experience:
Experience of private‑markets deal teams – whether as a deal‑team member or as a data or software provider supporting sourcing, diligence, or portfolio monitoring – is strongly preferred.
This includes familiarity with workflows and information needs of:
- Private equity / credit or venture capital investment teams
- Deal sourcing and origination platforms
- Diligence, research, or valuation tools
- PortCo monitoring, analytics, and reporting environments
This domain expertise materially enhances success in shaping the product direction.
Values & Working Style:
You will operate within a culture characterized by:
- Customer focus and problem‑solving
- Evidence‑based, objective decision‑making
- Collaborative working across global teams
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- Professional development, ownership, and transparency
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.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
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 workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.
BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.
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.
What We Do
As the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement, home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments, foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals, including firefighters, nurses, teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven, focused on clients and risk management, and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone, helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world, Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster, more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock, we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions, simplify complexity, and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning, wealth building or navigating market shifts, we’re here to help clients invest more easily, more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com
Why Work With Us
Without our people, technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology, we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees, clients, shareholders and society alike.
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