BlackRock’s Aladdin COO office seeks a Vice President, Business Manager to oversee people-focused processes such as headcount planning and talent acquisition while partnering with leaders to optimize workforce design and deployment. This role involves translating business priorities into hiring strategies, improving core HR processes, and ensuring financial discipline in workforce-related investments. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in COO, HR, or FP&A roles, with strong analytical skills, business acumen, and the ability to operate effectively in complex environments. They should be adept at working with large datasets, driving process improvements, and communicating clearly with senior stakeholders. Familiarity with workforce systems, data visualization tools, and financial planning software is beneficial, as is experience in technology or platform organizations.
Skills
Excel
Power BI
Workday
TM1
SAP
Cognos
AI
Python
SQL
Java
JavaScript
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
Git
JIRA
Confluence
Terraform
Docker
Maven
CI/CD
What you'll do
Support workforce planning and talent acquisition to align with business priorities.
Oversee people processes like early careers, immigration, and internal mobility.
Partner with leaders to improve long-term organizational design and coherence.
Translate data into decision-oriented insights for complex operational decisions.
Ensure financial discipline in workforce-related investments and budget outcomes.
Build strong partnerships across teams to drive alignment on key decisions.
What we're looking for
7+ years of experience in COO, business management, HR, talent acquisition, or financial planning & analysis roles.
Proven ability to connect workforce decisions to budget outcomes and manage trade-offs across growth, efficiency, and capacity.
Strong analytical skills with experience working across large datasets to generate clear insights and drive decisions.
Experience operating in complex, distributed environments, driving alignment across teams without direct ownership of all stakeholders.
Clear and effective communicator capable of distilling complex topics into actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
High ownership mindset with a focus on follow-through from problem identification to implemented solutions.
Market check
Salary context
This
$137,500–$194,000
range sits above
41%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$142,320–$209,040
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$150,925–$210,375
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 comparable postings.*
* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.
Employer
About Blackrock
BlackRock is the world''s largest asset management firm, providing investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional and retail clients through its Aladdin technology platform. Industry: Asset Management & Financial Services
Blackrock currently has
104 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$140,000–$195,000
across 101 roles with salary data.