Associate, Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Team Overview

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 deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.

About theOpportunity

With over $230B in client assets across direct index and active investment strategies, SMA Solutions is a rapidly growing business within USWA (~10% org growth rate). Our personalized portfolios utilize individual securities, BlackRock Mutual Funds, and iShares ETFs to customize, diversify, and tailor investment solutions to high net worth/ultra-high net worth, mass affluent, and institutional clients.

We’re looking foraTechnical ProjectManagerto support the delivery of cross-functional, productand platformfocused initiatives critical tothe growth and operational excellence of our core productsand services. This role is ideal for someone who isa problem-solver,execution oriented,technicallyfluent, and comfortable operating incomplextechnology and business domains.

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. 

Responsibilities

• Supportand drivecross-functional technical and product initiatives through planning, execution, delivery, and post-launch follow-up

• Provide hands-onprojectsupport 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 monitorprogramhealth using metrics andderived insights

• Facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives for one or more teams

• Contribute to improving processes, documentation, andworkflowsto 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 experience)

• 3+years of experienceworking withproduct andengineeringteams 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 asAzure 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 communicateto 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 modernsoftware development practices, languages and frameworks

• Experience working inwealth management, financial services or other regulated industries