Vice President, Retirement Solutions Strategic Growth, Multi-Asset Strategies & Solutions (MASS)

The Vice President, Retirement Solutions Strategic Growth, Multi-Asset Strategies & Solutions (MASS) will play a critical role in supporting the strategy, business development, and planning efforts for BlackRock's Retirement Solutions platform. This involves identifying, evaluating, and executing strategic opportunities to expand beyond target date funds and Defined Contribution into new products, sales channels, and global markets. The role requires market research, due diligence, building commercial frameworks, and presenting business cases to leadership, while also enhancing operational efficiency through business planning and process optimization.

Must Have

• Develop a deep understanding of the RS team’s investment philosophy, process, positioning, and products.
• Conduct industry/market research to identify opportunities in existing and emerging channels, globally.
• Support end-to-end strategy development: opportunity sizing, evaluation of business structures, positioning, and execution planning.
• Perform due diligence and develop business cases to evaluate strategic initiatives and drive key prioritization and tradeoff decisions.
• Communicate strategies and plans across the firm (including senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders) via clear and compelling presentations, written memos, meetings, etc.
• Partner with product, distribution, finance, investment, and strategy colleagues to ensure alignment on new initiatives and go-to-market strategies.
• Contribute to annual and long-term business planning and operations, including resource allocation, tracking progress and success metrics for strategic initiatives, and KPI development/monitoring for broader RS.
• 4–8 years of experience in corporate strategy, corporate development, management consulting, finance, investment banking, or similar.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure and interpret complex information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with executive presence and the ability to effectively communicate with senior audiences.
• Exceptionally organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects while delivering in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and operate independently while also being adaptable to direction and team collaboration.
• Highly proficient with Excel and PowerPoint.
• Series 7 & 63 to be acquired within 6 months of hire.

Good to Have

• Interest in retirement markets, asset management, and lifecycle investing.
• Knowledge of target date funds, defined contribution, strategic planning, and/or financial modeling is a plus.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, Python, SQL, Morningstar Direct, and/or Bloomberg is desirable but not a requirement.

Perks & Benefits

• Strong retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Hybrid work model (4 days in office, 1 day work from home)

About this role

Team Description

Multi-Asset Strategies & Solutions (MASS) is the business at the heart of BlackRock's portfolio construction, asset allocation, and active management ecosystem. The group’s specialized investment capabilities include tactical asset allocation, factor-based, income, target risk, and target date strategies, as well as customized solutions for a diverse client base.

The Retirement Solutions (RS) team within MASS is the center of multi-asset lifecycle investing at the firm and the engine serving our global retirement business. Since pioneering the industry’s first target date fund, LifePath, our culture of innovation has helped us build BlackRock’s largest product franchise—trusted with $680B in client assets across eight countries and a variety of implementations including index, active, sustainable, and custom solutions as of September 2025.

Bringing together expertise in strategy, research, portfolio management, and technology, RS is singularly focused on enabling a better retirement for all. As retirement remains a top strategic priority for BlackRock, we are expanding our global team—based in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, London, Budapest, and Gurgaon—to ensure our platform continues to be at the forefront of lifecycle innovation.

Job Description

Reporting directly to the Head of Strategic Growth, this individual will play a critical role within the RS Strategic Growth team, supporting the strategy, business development, and planning efforts that drive the RS platform’s long-term strategic growth and evolution.

Working closely with senior leaders, this individual will help identify, evaluate, and execute strategic opportunities that expand RS beyond target date funds and Defined Contribution into new products, sales channels, and global markets. This will entail working across the full spectrum of opportunity evaluation: from market research and due diligence to building commercial frameworks and presenting business cases to leadership. Beyond developing disruptive growth initiatives, this individual will also play a key role in strengthening the team’s operational efficiency through effective business planning and process optimization.

This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable recommendations.

Development Opportunities

This position offers the opportunity to:

• Work on a high revenue, high growth team that’s an area of strategic focus for the firm,
• Gain exposure to high-impact initiatives across the retirement landscape,
• Develop strong fluency in lifecycle investing,
• set business-level strategy,
• Influence the firm's broader strategic agenda through cross-functional initiatives, and
• Directly contribute to shaping the next frontier of RS’s growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the RS team’s investment philosophy, process, positioning, and products.
• Conduct industry/market research to identify opportunities (e.g., business line expansions/divestitures, internal joint ventures, ecosystem partnerships) in existing and emerging channels, globally.
• Support end-to-end strategy development: opportunity sizing, evaluation of business structures, positioning, and execution planning.
• Perform due diligence and develop business cases to evaluate strategic initiatives and drive key prioritization and tradeoff decisions.
• Communicate strategies and plans across the firm (including senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders) via clear and compelling presentations, written memos, meetings, etc.
• Partner with product, distribution, finance, investment, and strategy colleagues to ensure alignment on new initiatives and go-to-market strategies.
• Contribute to annual and long-term business planning and operations, including resource allocation, tracking progress and success metrics for strategic initiatives, and KPI development/monitoring for broader RS.

Skills and Qualifications

• 4–8 years of experience in corporate strategy, corporate development, management consulting, finance, investment banking, or similar.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure and interpret complex information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with executive presence and the ability to effectively communicate with senior audiences.
• Exceptionally organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects while delivering in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and operate independently while also being adaptable to direction and team collaboration.
• Interest in retirement markets, asset management, and lifecycle investing. Knowledge of target date funds, defined contribution, strategic planning, and/or financial modeling is a plus.
• Must be highly proficient with Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, Python, SQL, Morningstar Direct, and/or Bloomberg is desirable but not a requirement.
• Series 7 & 63 to be acquired within 6 months of hire.

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$137,500.00 - USD$194,000.00 . 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.

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.

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