Workplace Technology Product Owner

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, Twitter, 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 technology experience

• Experience with Exchange Online offering, configurations, and roadmap review to ensure a consistent and planed user experience.

• Experience with Microsoft Teams in a large enterprise for not just messaging but collaboration with 3rd party application integrations/ policies.

• Experience working with cloud technologies, such as Microsoft’s Office 365 Platform and document storage platforms.

• A successful track record of managing multiple projects on competing deadlines without compromising quality.

• Ability to outline and quantify user requirements, project costs, and end value to make metric-driven decisions.

• Experience managing internal and external stakeholders and leading project prioritization to drive product vision and roadmap.

• Experience with Agile Project Management methodologies is required.

• Proven experience or demonstrated capability in leading IT infrastructure engineering groups in complex and dynamic environments.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to relate to a wide variety of technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of an organization.

Preferred Experience:

• Strong understanding of Microsoft products as whole and the features of each including Microsoft CoPilot

• A high level understanding of cloud-based technologies (AWS or Azure) and solutions that they support

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.  All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at HR-Recruiting-Americas@Blackstone.com.

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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