Full-Time
Principal Product Designer
Aladdin Design
Updated on 9/9/2026
BlackRock
10,001+ employees
Global asset management and risk services
Compensation Overview
$215k - $275k/yr
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
At least four days in the office per week required.
Bachelor's, Master's
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- At least 12 years of experience designing complex digital products, including significant experience with enterprise software.
- Demonstrated experience designing sophisticated financial products, investment platforms, private market platforms, trading systems, risk management tools, or similar financial technology solutions.
- Experience leading design across interconnected product ecosystems while balancing local product needs with platform-wide consistency.
- Strong understanding of designing for investors and financial professionals in complex, highly regulated environments, including translating sophisticated investment workflows into intuitive and effective user experiences.
- Work samples demonstrating strategic thinking, systems design, and end-to-end problem solving across complex enterprise experiences.
- Expertise in human-centered design, interaction design, information architecture, prototyping, and user experience research methodologies.
- Experience influencing product strategy and partnering with executive stakeholders for better user outcomes.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around user-centered outcomes.
- Experience working within Agile product development environments and cross-functional teams.
- Experience utilizing artificial intelligence tools within the design process to enhance exploration, prototyping, and delivery.
- Experience designing with an artificial-intelligence-first mindset, considering how intelligent systems can augment user workflows and decision-making.
- Experience designing artificial-intelligence-powered and data-intensive products, particularly in complex decision-support environments such as investment, risk, or portfolio workflows.
- Ability to design intelligent workflows that integrate data, analytics, and artificial intelligence to support expert user decision-making.
- Strong understanding of designing for transparency, explainability, and trust in regulated financial systems.
- Experience partnering with Engineering and Risk to operationalize artificial intelligence within real-world user workflows.
- Familiarity with designing across structured and unstructured data domains, including alternative data and analytics platforms.
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Lead user experience strategy for complex product areas across the Aladdin platform.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and business leaders to shape product vision from concept through delivery.
- Translate business strategy, customer needs, and technical capabilities into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
- Shape coherent platform experiences by identifying opportunities spanning products, teams, and investment workflows.
- Drive discovery through customer research, workshops, design sprints, prototyping, and iterative validation.
- Use qualitative research, product analytics, and experimentation to inform design decisions.
- Influence product direction and executive decision-making through storytelling, frameworks, and design rationale.
- Champion design quality, systems thinking, accessibility, and consistency across the platform.
- Explore opportunities for artificial intelligence and intelligent automation to enhance user workflows while maintaining clarity, trust, and human oversight.
- Leverage artificial intelligence throughout the design process to accelerate research synthesis, concept generation, prototyping, and evaluation while maintaining high design-judgment standards.
- Define interaction models for artificial-intelligence-driven and data-intensive experiences.
- Mentor designers and contribute to the growth of the design practice through coaching, critique, and thought leadership while remaining an individual contributor.
- Contribute to design capability, standards, and organizational evolution.
- Experience experimenting with new technologies and design methods to improve quality and efficiency.
- Experience designing artificial-intelligence-powered experiences that help users make better decisions while maintaining transparency, trust, and appropriate human oversight.
- Experience defining interaction patterns, design systems, or platform principles that enabled multiple teams to deliver more coherent user experiences.
- Experience bringing clarity to ambiguous problem spaces and influencing organizations beyond the boundaries of an immediate product team.
- Ability to present two to three case studies demonstrating impact on complex enterprise or financial systems, challenges overcome and trade-offs made, measurable user and business outcomes, and approaches to system-level and platform design challenges.
BlackRock is a global asset manager that serves institutions and individual investors with a wide range of investment products. It pools client money into funds across equities, bonds, multi-asset, and alternatives, and uses teams to select and rebalance investments to meet objectives. It earns fees from assets under management, advisory services, and its Aladdin platform, which provides risk analytics and portfolio tools to big investors. Its scale, broad product lineup, and the Aladdin platform differentiate it, while its goal is to grow client assets and help clients reach their financial objectives over time.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1988
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 net inflows reached $192 billion; first-half inflows hit $321 billion.
- Technology services revenue rose 13% year over year in Q2 2026, powered by Aladdin.
- iShares recorded $132 billion Q1 2026 inflows and $50 billion active ETF inflows.
What critics are saying
- January and June 2026 layoffs cut about 450 jobs, signaling ongoing margin pressure.
- February 10 and July 13, 2026 lawsuits attacked BlackRock’s climate and mutual-fund practices.
- A prolonged coal or fee litigation loss would undermine fiduciary trust and trigger client redemptions.
What makes BlackRock unique
- BlackRock’s July 2026 AUM hit $15.34 trillion, unmatched scale across public and private markets.
- Aladdin expanded with Deutsche Bank HausFX on February 9, 2026, deepening workflow lock-in.
- BlackRock integrates ETFs, private credit, and technology subscriptions into one client platform.
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Ethereum ecosystem accelerates in August with Layer-2, DeFi and privacy growth. Ethereum sees a surge in August development as Layer-2 upgrades, DeFi growth, privacy tools and institutional adoption expand. Tldr: Table of Contents * Ethereum saw accelerated August activity across Layer-2 upgrades, institutional adoption and ecosystem development. * BlackRock expanded tokenization on Ethereum while Gnosis and Whitechain pursued Layer-2 transitions. * Privacy tools and wallet infrastructure advanced through new applications, security features and post-quantum technology. * DeFi growth continued as Aave, Morpho and Uniswap reached new deposit and trading milestones. Ethereum development activity accelerated through August as builders across the ecosystem shipped new upgrades, launched fresh protocols, and expanded institutional integrations. Layer-2 networks advanced their infrastructure, decentralized finance protocols recorded fresh deposit milestones, and privacy-focused applications gained new momentum. The developments touched governance, tokenization, wallet security, and onchain gaming across the wider Ethereum landscape. Institutional and Layer-2 expansion gain momentum. Ethereum's Layer-2 ecosystem saw structural changes this month. GnosisDAO approved a vote to move Gnosis Chain from an independent Layer-1 network to a ZK-proven Ethereum Layer-2 rollup. The shift introduces synchronous composability, allowing applications on Gnosis and Ethereum to interact within a single transaction. Institutional interest in Ethereum also expanded. BlackRock introduced its Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund with a tokenized share class deployed on Ethereum mainnet. The asset manager additionally began tokenizing share classes tied to its $311 billion European money market fund series on the network. Arbitrum activated its ArbOS Elara upgrade, bringing more responsive transaction fees to Arbitrum One. The update also increased Stylus smart contract capacity fourfold and added new features for chains built on the Arbitrum stack. Elsewhere, Whitechain, the network connected to the WhiteBit exchange ecosystem, announced plans to transition from an independent Layer-1 into an Ethereum Layer-2 built on the OP Stack. Ethereum client teams also introduced the Platåberget testnet to prepare implementations ahead of the Glamsterdam network upgrade. Privacy tools and wallet infrastructure advance. Privacy-focused development remained active across the Ethereum ecosystem in August. Aztec Network launched Alpha v5, a protocol upgrade that reduced private transaction proving times. The release also brought an initial group of privacy-preserving applications onto the network. Privacy Boost introduced a new frontend application enabling users to send private transfers directly from connected wallets. Separately, Privacy Pools launched onchain payroll support, letting employers issue recurring wage payments while keeping salary amounts and recipient addresses private. Wallet security also advanced through new releases. MetaMask launched its Agent Wallet, an agentic tool built with spending limits, allowlists, and configurable risk profiles. Freedom Factory opened presales for PQ1, an air-gapped hardware wallet that signs transactions using post-quantum cryptography through an Ethereum smart account. Privacy-focused wallet Cloaked reported reaching $650,000 in deposits and $1 million in transaction volume during its first 90 days of operation. Web3Privacy also released an updated Ethereum Privacy Ecosystem Mapping for 2026, documenting the network's growing privacy tooling landscape. DeFi growth and ecosystem programs continue. Decentralized finance activity on Ethereum showed continued expansion during the month. Aave v4 surpassed $525 million in deposits on Ethereum mainnet. Morpho reported crossing $880 million in total deposits on Robinhood Chain within less than two months of going live, while also reaching $5.75 billion in deposits on Base. Uniswap processed more than $1 billion in stock token volume on Robinhood Chain, contributing to over $20 billion in total volume since the platform's July launch. The exchange also launched v4 Permissioned Pools, a hook standard enabling allowlisted swaps for regulated assets while keeping the base protocol permissionless. Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base for non-U.S. users, backed one-to-one by a regulated custodian and held in self-custody wallets. Base separately opened applications for its Base Batches 004 accelerator program, supporting ten early-stage teams building on the network. Ether.fi expanded its crypto neobank offering with tokenized stocks and portfolio-backed loans facilitated through Aave. The Ethereum Foundation also launched an autoresearch challenge focused on post-quantum security, built alongside zkSecurity and EigenLabs, placing a machine-verified security problem on a public leaderboard for open contribution.
Crypto Finance completes German management trio. The digital asset services provider has appointed Laura Hermann to the management team of its German entity. She previously worked for Blackrock, among others, in the technology sector. Laura Hermann has joined the executive board of Crypto Finance (Germany). (Image: Courtesy) Thursday, 3 September 2026 07:44 Press play to listen to this content Crypto Finance (Deutschland) has strengthened its leadership team. Laura Hermann has served as Managing Director since 1 July. According to a statement issued on Thursday, her focus will be on expanding the business in Europe's MiCAR-regulated market, sustainably developing strategic client relationships and further strengthening the sales organisation. Before joining Crypto Finance, Hermann worked for Blackrock in Germany, where she was responsible for business development for technology solutions across the DACH region and Eastern Europe. Prior to that, she served as Executive Managing Director at fintech company Verifino. Further Strengthening Its Position as a Partner to Banks Stijn Vander Straeten, CEO of the Crypto Finance Group, commented: "With Laura Hermann, we are gaining an outstanding leader with a deep understanding of institutional clients, capital markets and digital assets. Her expertise will play a key role in consistently implementing our growth strategy in the MiCAR-regulated environment and further strengthening our position as a trusted partner for banks, financial institutions and professional investors." According to the statement, the management team of Crypto Finance (Deutschland) is now complete. Alongside Hermann, it comprises Moritz Weber and Christian Müller. Crypto Finance (Deutschland) is part of the Crypto Finance Group, which belongs to Deutsche Börse Group and provides digital asset solutions to institutional clients. The group also includes the Finma-regulated Swiss company Crypto Finance AG, which offers trading, custody and wallet services and is a SIX-approved custodian for issuers of cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs).
Meet the hedge fund billionaire who kickstarted Wall Street's newest tax dodge. illustration by philip smith for forbes ByJohn Hyatt, Forbes Staff. John Hyatt is a NYC-based Forbes staff writer covering Wall Street. Aug 31, 2026, 06:30am EDT After helping AQR pioneer a novel tax avoidance investment strategy, accounting PhD Hoon Kim left to start Quantinno. Thanks to thousands of wealth managers and their ultra-rich clients, assets have swelled from $2 billion to $70 billion in three years. The long-running stock bull market has left America's wealthiest with a tax problem: too many investment gains with too few losses. With major indexes marching ever higher, and as founders and early employees of tech firms accumulate fortunes in concentrated stock positions, it's become harder and harder for wealthy folks to identify losers that they can use to "harvest" losses to offset their capital gains. A fast-growing strategy designed to fix this problem has become the toast of the investment industry, from the Wall Street hedge funds crafting the products to the independent advisors hawking them to clients. In the so-called long-short tax-aware strategy, an investor uses leverage to make hundreds, even thousands, of additional bets on stocks - some that they own, and some that they short. (Shorting is betting that a stock will fall: you borrow shares, sell them and later buy them back, preferably at a lower price). The novel formula deliberately creates plenty of losses, on either its long or short positions, which investors can harvest to strategically offset gains elsewhere, while keeping most of their money invested in the rising stock market. Today, the assets committed to long-short tax aware strategies are fast approaching $200 billion, up from just a few billion five years ago. With an estimated $260 billion under management Greenwich-based AQR Capital Management, a 1,000-person hedge fund and asset manager, is well known as a pioneer of this trading strategy. Its success has prompted blue chip copycats from asset management giants like BlackRock, Nuveen, and Franklin Templeton to fellow quant hedge funds like Two Sigma and WorldQuant. All have recently launched or are exploring similar "long-short tax aware" offerings. However, AQR's biggest rival is a little known New York City-based firm called Quantinno Capital Management. In fact Quantinno's founder, a 57-year-old accounting PhD named Hoon Kim, actually helped create one of AQR's first long-short funds during his 12-year run at AQR. As of March 2026 Quantinno's assets were reported to be $48.4 billion across 10,600 individual accounts, up from less than $300 million five years ago, according to its website and public filings. This net assets figure has since been removed from Quantinno's website, but in less than six months assets have further ballooned to around $70 billion, says one wealth advisor familiar with the firm's numbers. "I would call their success remarkable. I've actually never seen anything like it," says Brent Sullivan, a tax analyst and founder of the blog Tax Alpha Insider. Become a member and unlock unlimited access, expert analysis and exclusive member benefits. Already a member? Digital Membership Billed monthly LESS THAN $2/WEEK Digital Membership Billed annually Digital Membership Billed biennially Premium access to exclusive events, thought-provoking conversations with global leaders and more, all available on-demand. Elevated browsing experience with fewer ads and unlimited article saving power an enhanced reading experience. ByJohn Hyatt John Hyatt is a staff writer who covers finance, investments and billionaire dealmakers. Contact Hyatt with suggestions, tips and scoops at +1-720-951-2080 (Signal) or [email protected]. Read our community guidelines.
Hogan Lovells has advised BlackRock's funds and accounts on a debt financing transaction providing up to €300 million to Wide Group over the coming years. Wide Group is a leading insurance brokerage company in the Italian market. The financing may be used for investments and aims to support the group's international expansion. The cross-border Hogan Lovells team was led by partners Iacopo Canino and Bianca Caruso. The firm also advised the notes trustee and security agent, with a team led by partners Mauro Saccani and Giovanni Quaggiotti. The deal involved lawyers from Hogan Lovells' Italian, English and Luxembourg offices.
BlackRock Aladdin integrates Adroit Trading Technologies. Multi-year partnership enables mutual clients to access Adroit's execution capabilities from the Aladdin(R) platform Adroit Trading Technologies Inc., a provider of multi-asset execution management technology, announced it has entered into a partnership with Aladdin(R), BlackRock's technology platform. This partnership allows mutual clients to access Adroit's execution management capabilities from the Aladdin platform, helping streamline the trading experience and improve operational efficiency. The trading landscape, especially for OTC products, is undergoing profound change: electronification, an explosion in the number of electronic liquidity providers, a proliferation of trading protocols, and innovation in risk-transfer instruments such as portfolio trading. Adroit has been at the forefront of this shift, working with both the buy-side and sell-side to reduce friction, test new approaches, measure outcomes, and ultimately lower costs for institutional investors - improvements that translate into stronger execution outcomes for client portfolios. "For many years, I have greatly admired the scale and comprehensiveness of the Aladdin platform, and over time I have come to know the passionate, high-integrity, and customer-focused team behind it. I could not be more excited to collaborate with such an exceptional institution - and to give our mutual clients an elegant solution," said Anil Jaglan, CEO of Adroit. And receive exclusive articles on securities markets The 2026 Global Markets Choice Awards are here! Nominations are officially OPEN for the celebration of excellence in global capital markets trading & technology. Nominate below: https://www.jotform.com/form/260086385121150 Delaware Life Insurance Company is becoming the first insurance carrier to offer an index that contains cryptocurrency, adding the BlackRock U.S. Equity Bitcoin Balanced Risk 12% Index to its fixed index annuity (FIA) portfolio. As the digital assets industry pushes toward Franklin Templeton is expanding its tokenized fund suite, signaling growing institutional demand for blockchain-based fund infrastructure and regulated investment products moving onchain. Read the full article below: $50 billion in active ETF inflows helped fuel a record year for @BlackRock 's iShares business, as investors continue to lean into active strategies.