Employee Compliance Product & Solutions Lead – Compliance COO, Vice President

Job description

**About this role** **Department Overview:** Legal \& Compliance (L\&C) seeks to ensure BlackRock satisfies its regulatory obligations, protects BlackRock's reputation, and provides advice to and partners with the business to meet clients' expectations. We do this by: * Actively participating in business decisions to champion our clients' interests and assist the business in translating compliance into their daily work. * Having client interests at the center of everything we do. * Cultivating and enhancing the compliance culture within BlackRock. * Providing thought leadership on the impact and implementation of regulation. * Developing and fostering excellence within the L\&C team. **Team Overview:** This role sits in the Compliance COO team within L\&C and will partner closely with Employee Compliance (EC). The EC team establishes and oversees compliance requirements for employee-related activities and evaluates adherence to these requirements to avoid perceived or actual conflicts. The scope of oversight includes personal investments, gifts and entertainment, outside activities, U.S. political contributions, and the employee certification process. The team advises employees on requirements, monitors employee adherence, and applies restrictions as needed. The Compliance COO team is responsible for overall operations of BlackRock's Compliance department globally. The partnerships will include, for example, leveraging data analytics to inform EC decision-making, developing digital reporting tools to enhance transparency and tracking for EC, and leading change management initiatives to support the adoption of new EC processes and drive continuous improvement. **You are:** * Passionate about supporting and enhancing technical solutions in partnership with engineering teams and vendors. * A self-starter who enjoys solving complex problems. * Curious to learn new skills and willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone. * Comfortable challenging the status quo and using your entrepreneurial spirit to create innovative solutions. * A team player who is energized by working in a fast-paced environment. * Someone who leverages AI tools to accelerate discovery, writing, analysis, and testing. * Able to collaborate effectively within a global organization, working seamlessly with colleagues across different regions and time zones. **We are:** * Passionate about delivering compliance and technology solutions that strengthen the control environment, protect the firm, and support employees in meeting their obligations. * Comfortable constructively challenging the status quo, with a focus on improving processes, controls, and outcomes through thoughtful analysis and sound judgment. * Curious and engaged in understanding financial markets, regulation, and the evolving technology ecosystem, with an interest in how innovation can enhance compliance effectiveness. * Results oriented and metrics driven, focused on delivering measurable improvements, operational efficiency, and high‑quality outcomes. * Committed to fostering a collaborative culture grounded in integrity, accountability, and shared ownership of outcomes. **Skills / Qualifications:** * 7 years of relevant experience in technology product management, business analysis, platform support, or client service roles, preferably involving compliance, regulatory, risk, or control‑based systems. * Demonstrated interest in understanding and mastering end-to-end business workflows, with the ability to document requirements, assess system behavior, and support configuration‑driven solutions. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex system behavior, requirements, and issues to technical and non‑technical stakeholders. * Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with experience investigating issues, identifying root causes, and supporting practical, risk-aware solutions. * Hands‑on comfort using AI‑enabled tools in day-to-day product or analytical work, applying appropriate judgment, governance, and data‑risk awareness. * Extensive experience working collaboratively with engineering teams and vendors to deliver technology solutions that meet defined business and control requirements. * Working familiarity with APIs and data in product or platform contexts, including the ability to read API specifications and understand request/response patterns, authentication methods, rate limits, and common failure scenarios. * Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Economics, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. **Primary Responsibilities:** *Platform \& Process Support* * Lead the ongoing operation, maintenance, and enhancement of the employee compliance platform across EC processes, including personal investments, gifts \& entertainment, outside business activities, and political contributions. * Partner with EC stakeholders, internal engineering teams, and vendor representatives across multiple regions and time zones to help translate EC policy and process requirements into system configurations and operational solutions. * Maintain a working understanding of EC policies, compliance controls, and associated system requirements to support accurate implementation and execution. * Monitor and maintain EC technology solutions, including workflow automation, document extraction and review tools, reporting and analytics platforms, data integrations, and self-service applications (e.g., Power Platform, Azure Document Intelligence, and Copilot Studio) designed to enhance operational efficiency, scalability, employee experience, and control effectiveness. *System Configuration \& Administration* * Configure and maintain the platform's self‑serve functionality to ensure workflows, rules, permissions, and controls remain aligned with EC policy and process changes. * Perform system administration activities, including maintaining