Product Manager - Alternative Asset Management 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 Description:

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:

This role is responsible for executing project work streams across various stakeholder groups. You will work closely with the Real Estate, Private Equity and Multi-Asset stakeholder teams to successfully automate business processes and calculation models using modern technology tools & languages including Anaplan, Appian, Python, Sigma, Tableau & Snowflake. All projects are prioritized and selected to achieve measurable operational efficiencies and contribute to our stakeholders’ technology strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Document business requirements for automation of calculations and reporting as well as process changes

• Identify opportunities for process improvements

• Design, build and implement the most efficient solution based on the business requirements gathered leveraging the most effective technologies

• Develop and maintain project tasks and timelines and prepare management updates

• Drive and coordinate user testing activities and provide training to end users

• Plan, execute and reconcile/validate data migration and related reporting

• Coordinate, monitor and work directly with offshore & affiliate teams

• Provide functional user support on a day-to-day basis during implementation and more long term from a solution strategy

• Act as a system “super user” helping others to leverage systems more effectively and establish best practice system processes 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experiences in business analysis/project management and/or model building functions

• Prior experience in real estate or private equity along with knowledge of performance calculations, deal & trade lifecycle, forecasting, and investor reporting

• Possess strong analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to multitask and deliver under tight deadlines; the candidate should be a self-starter that thrives on complexity and solution finding

• Working knowledge of business modeling tools (e.g. Anaplan), data visualization and BI tools (e.g. Sigma, Tableau, Power BI, etc.) and business process automation software (e.g. Appian)

• Programming skills and experience preferred (i.e. Python, SQL or VBA), and willingness to learn expected

• Possess strong Microsoft Office skills (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word); the candidate is expected to have experience building and working with large volume of data (Pivots, V-Lookups, nested statements, etc.)

• Effectively works as an individual contributor with minimal oversight

• Excellent interpersonal and communicat