Vice President, Workplace AI Product Lead / New York, NY Or Princeton, NJ

About this role

Your Team

The Digital Solutions team is responsible for the strategy and execution of many of the firm’s enterprise AI, productivity and collaboration technology solutions including Microsoft 365, Copilot, ChatGPT, Box, Airtable, Miro, NetDocuments, and other SaaS technologies. The team is central to BlackRock’s AI enablement journey, improving the employee digital experience as a result. We collaborate with various cross-functional technical and non-technical teams around the world to deliver secure and scalable technology services.

The Digital Solutions team has three verticals: AI & Data Solutions, Productivity Solutions, and Collaboration Solutions, and aligns it to the Digital Workplace AI organization.

Your role and impact

As Vice President within AI Solutions, you will sit at the intersection of enterprise technology, AI product innovation, and digital employee experience transformation. You will help lead the firm’s shift toward intent driven work and agent-based execution by translating the Employee Digital Experience (EDE) North Star into AI enabled, scalable, governed digital products.

You will build the AI product strategy and roadmap for employee experiences across Microsoft AI and frontier partners (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity), ensuring solutions consistently meet enterprise governance standards, align to firm‑wide technology policy, embed risk and privacy controls, and deliver measurable employee impact.

You will drive cross platform AI experience quality, product requirements, and coherence across Copilot, chat experiences, agents, and automation capabilities, ensuring consistency, governance by design, and value realization.

You will manage a team and partner closely with Digital Workplace Engineering, Legal and Compliance, Risk, HR, and Information Security to deliver enabled experiences that are intuitive, governed, reusable, and embedded into daily workflows. Your work will prevent fragmented pilots, accelerate enterprise adoption, and ensure AI platform direction aligns to the firm’s needs.

As Vice President, Workplace AI Employee Digital Experience, you will:

• Own and continuously refine the AI product strategy for employee experiences across Microsoft AI and frontier partners, ensuring alignment to the 2028 EDE strategy.

• Translate the EDE North Star into prioritized scenarios that enable intent‑driven work, agent‑based execution, and frictionless employee workflows.

• Co‑own AI product requirements, experience quality standards, and cross‑platform coherence across Copilot, conversational interfaces, agent frameworks, and automation ecosystems.

• Lead end‑to‑end product delivery, from discovery and pilot through production, global scale, and lifecycle optimization—grounded in rigorous governance and compliance processes.

• Embed Legal and Compliance, Information Security, Procurement, and HR controls directly into AI product design to ensure responsible AI and governance by design.

• Serve as the primary strategic interface with Microsoft and frontier AI partners, shaping product direction through clear enterprise requirements and adoption signals.

• Drive measurement frameworks that quantify employee impact, reduce friction, and ensure investment is directed toward high frequency, high value scenarios.

• Partner with Digital Workplace stakeholders to ensure AI products are supported through strong onboarding, change management, user education, and operational processes.

 

What you’ll need:

• Proven leadership experience delivering enterprise scale AI, digital workplace, or cloud products within complex global organizations.

• Deep understanding of Microsoft 365, Microsoft AI ecosystem, M365 Copilot, agent frameworks, and automation platforms; familiarity with frontier models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity) strongly preferred.

• Expertise in product management disciplines including roadmap ownership, backlog prioritization, lifecycle management, and cross functional stakeholder alignment.

• Demonstrated ability to translate enterprise strategy into actionable, governed product scenarios that scale across diverse business functions.

• Strong knowledge of governance, compliance, security, and privacy controls and how to embed them into product design (governance by design mindset).

• Experience partnering with Legal, Risk, HR, Architecture, and Security teams to launch compliant technology products.

• Familiarity with Digital Workplace and SaaS governance principles, including platform onboarding, suitability assessment, and shadow IT mitigation.

• Excellent communication and executive storytelling skills; ability to clearly articulate complex AI capabilities and influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong vendor and partner management experience, including defining product requirements and influencing partner roadmaps.

• Ability to lead teams, mentor talent, drive operational excellence, and create repeatable processes for scaling AI products.

• Comfort operating in fast‑evolving AI landscapes, with a bias for structured experimentation, innovation, and measurable value creation.

• 8+ years of experience in product strategy, enterprise platforms, AI solutions, or digital transformation roles.

For NY7 - 50 Hudson Yards, New York Only the salary range for this position is USD$162,500.00 - USD$215,000.00 . 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. For Princeton, NJ Only the salary range for this position is USD$140,000.00 - USD$195,000.00 . 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 benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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 workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

 

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.