Workplace Technology Product Owner, AVP - Enterprise Technology

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

Business Overview:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development means that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

Role:       

As a member of the Workplace Experience Team, you will be responsible for identifying, designing, and implementing modern solutions and processes to improve user experience with Blackstone’s messaging and compliance products including Exchange Online, Email Clients (Outlook Windows/iOS/macOS), Proofpoint, compliance journaling products, etc. The ideal candidate will help determine the best solutions for our business needs, help identify gaps and shortcomings in current deployments, and determine the necessary path forward to create consistent and efficient systems.

Responsibilities:

• In partnership with engineering and architectural resources, drive strategy and manage implementation of global initiatives such as:

  • Enterprise-wide deployments

  • Architecture modernization

  • Performance optimization

  • User training & adoption

• Design, refine, maintain, and build a strategic roadmap for a world class offering across a variety of productivity tools such as Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, & CoPilot.

• Interface with Legal & Compliance teams to ensure all products deployed meet journaling, retention, and compliance requirements.

• Act as a bridge translating stakeholder needs to engineering and as technical subject matter specialist to partnering teams

• Represent Blackstone’s business and technical needs through vendor relationship management

• Ability to work with data sets and present metrics to drive strategic business decisions

• Drive Agile prioritization through quarterly and biweekly sprint planning for the team

• Decompose larger initiatives into smaller tasks, tracking timelines and dependencies

• Use strong written and oral communication to deliver status updates, program risks, and presentations to technology leadership and executive stakeholders

• Author design documents, Service Desk training documentation, facilitate peer review, and lead committee presentations

• Contribute to a comprehensive training platform for end users and support teams. Drive user adoption and satisfaction with continuous learning through targeted videos, documentation, and tips to keep users informed and maximize their experience

• Continuously move Blackstone forward by researching new and emerging technologies

• Leverage endpoint data, user adoption metrics, and user sentiment to continuously improve the end user experience

Required Qualifications:                        

• 4+ years of professional enterprise level