Vice President, Business Manager

About the Role BlackRock's Aladdin COO office seeks a Vice President, Business Manager to drive operational discipline, financial rigor, and aligned transparency across the global Aladdin footprint. This role will focus on workforce planning, budget oversight, and governance, partnering with leadership to operationalize strategic business priorities. You will report directly to the head of Financial and Operational Excellence for Aladdin and drive workforce-centric processes including headcount planning, recruiting strategy, internal mobility, and resource allocation.

What You'll Do

• Support workforce planning, talent acquisition and day-to-day talent management across Aladdin, translating business priorities into hiring, mobility, and resource allocation operations while maintaining accurate, real-time visibility into headcount, location, and organizational shape.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to improve long-term organizational design and operating coherence, including team structures, role/functional evolution, and domain clarity, while reinforcing consistent approaches across a highly distributed environment.
• Serve as Aladdin COO’s subject matter expert and primary conduit to Talent Acquisition to shape and execute hiring strategies, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and candidate profiles while improving outcomes across the hiring lifecycle.
• Oversee and continuously improve core people processes—including within early careers, immigration, internal mobility, and workforce data management—ensuring strong controls, high data integrity, and consistent adoption of systems and standards across teams.
• Translate workforce, financial and resource data into clear, decision-oriented insights, and drive those answers through to execution by aligning stakeholders, tracking progress, and ensuring follow-through in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Ensure financial discipline across workforce-related investments by managing planning, forecasting, and in-year execution in close partnership with Business Management peers and FP&A, connecting hiring and organizational decisions to budget outcomes and surfacing risks and trade-offs early.
• Build strong partnerships across business, engineering, product, and COO teams to understand priorities, challenge assumptions where appropriate, and drive alignment on key operational and organizational decisions.
• Drive process improvements, introduce automation, and enhance transparency for stakeholders, focusing on achieving desired outcomes efficiently and being a student of AI.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of relevant experience across COO, business management, HR, talent acquisition, or financial planning & analysis roles, with demonstrated ownership of workforce planning, hiring strategy or operational execution in a complex org.
• Undergraduate degree required, with an MBA or advanced degree desirable.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect workforce decisions to budget outcomes, understand cost drivers, and manage trade-offs across growth, efficiency, and capacity.
• Demonstrated interest in shaping modern talent models and building high-quality, scalable people processes that enable better workforce outcomes.
• Proven ability to operate in complex, distributed environments—driving alignment across teams, navigating ambiguity, and ensuring consistent execution without direct ownership of all stakeholders.
• Clear and effective communicator, able to distill complex topics into actionable insights and influence senior stakeholders; skilled in professional presentations and business proposals while clearly articulated future deliverables and goals.
• Strong judgment and problem-solving ability, with a track record of identifying inefficiencies, simplifying processes, and improving operational outcomes at scale.
• Analytical by nature, with experience working across large, imperfect datasets to generate clear insights and drive decisions.
• High ownership mindset with a focus on follow-through—able to move from problem identification to implemented solutions in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in or supporting large-scale technology or platform organizations, particularly within engineering or product environments.
• Familiarity with workforce systems and data visualization tools, with a focus on improving data quality, reporting, and transparency.
• Experience with financial systems or enterprise planning tools, and a working understanding of how financial processes connect to operational decision-making.
• Exposure to location strategy work, including evaluating trade-offs across cost, capability, and scale.
• Experience driving process automation or tooling improvements.

Compensation & Benefits Not disclosed