Vice President, Planning & Program Management (Fixed-term)

About this role

Your team

The Global Marketing & Digital Wealth organization at BlackRock is a forward-looking, globally connected team working across functions and markets to unlock growth opportunities and accelerate business outcomes. In collaboration with internal and external partners, the organization delivers campaigns, brand platforms, communications, training, and client experiences, supported by capabilities spanning content strategy, research and analytics, and digital platforms and experiences.

Within Global Marketing & Digital Wealth, the Global Digital team owns and transforms BlackRock’s client-facing digital properties, including BlackRock.com, iShares.com, and Advisor Center, as well as marketing platforms and email marketing channels. The team brings together product, design, engineering, and digital expertise to create connected, personalized experiences that help clients discover, understand, and engage with BlackRock.

Your role and impact

BlackRock is seeking a hands-on, analytically rigorous Vice President to lead planning and program management for the Global Digital organization. This role turns strategy into an actionable portfolio by establishing and maintaining the plan of record, leading prioritization and intake, ensuring an accurate and transparent portfolio view, and creating an operating cadence that enables timely leadership decisions.

At the center of the organization, you will partner across Product, Design, Engineering, Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Marketing, and regional client business teams to sequence work against capacity, surface dependencies and risks early, and continuously optimize the portfolio toward the highest-value opportunities. You will also own the tooling and reporting that enable effective portfolio management and identify opportunities to use AI and automation to reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and strengthen decision support.

Your responsibilities

In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:

• Own the integrated plan of record and lead annual and quarterly planning cycles, connecting strategic priorities, roadmaps, delivery milestones, capacity, and committed outcomes.
• Lead prioritization and trade-off analysis using consistent frameworks that connect investment decisions to capacity and business outcomes.
• Maintain a trusted portfolio view of scope, status, dependencies, risks, and capacity, identifying constraints and recommending resource shifts toward higher-value opportunities.
• Design and maintain portfolio, intake, and roadmap workflows and dashboards, delivering concise executive reporting on portfolio health, performance, and outcomes.
• Lead complex cross-functional programs from initiation through delivery, managing milestones, dependencies, risks, and escalations across business and control functions.
• Run leadership forums, operating reviews, and checkpoints with clear decisions and follow-through, continuously simplifying governance and ways of working.
• Connect capacity and resourcing insights to prioritization decisions, while advancing shared planning standards and using AI and automation to improve workflows, reporting, and data quality.

Your experience

• 5+ years of experience in program management, strategic planning, portfolio management, business management, or product operations, preferably within a digital, technology, or marketing organization.
• Demonstrated success running planning and prioritization processes and managing cross-functional programs in a matrixed, global environment.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining portfolio, roadmap, or intake systems; Airtable experience strongly preferred, including automations, views, and dashboards.
• Working knowledge of how modern product, design, engineering, and data teams operate and deliver.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills, with the ability to independently produce clear, executive-level materials.
• Interest in applying AI and automation to planning, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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.

To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.