BlackRock · 23 hours ago
Director, Workplace AI Portfolio Lead
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expBlackRock is a leading investment management firm dedicated to helping people achieve financial well-being. The Workplace AI Portfolio Lead will own the enterprise portfolio strategy for AI-enabled workplace experiences and workflow automation, partnering with various teams to translate the Workplace AI vision into impactful initiatives.
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Responsibilities
Own a single enterprise portfolio and backlog across Workplace AI initiatives (including M365 Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Copilot Studio agents, and automation), consolidating intake to reduce duplication and improve transparency
Establish a standardized prioritization rubric that drives repeatable trade-offs across impact, scalability, reuse potential, readiness, risk, and effort
Own and run portfolio decision forums. Lead quarterly planning and maintain a resourced roadmap (Now, Next, Later) aligned to actual engineering capacity and key dependencies
Operate a clear “stop doing” and re-sequencing mechanism to protect capacity for priority initiatives and avoid perpetual pilots
Build and maintain a capacity model that allocates effort across priority initiatives, reusable platform capabilities, reliability and technical debt, and time-boxed experimentation
Partner with Workplace AI Engineering leadership to reduce parallel work, sequence dependencies, and improve throughput and time to impact
Define stage gates from idea through scaled release (discovery, pilot, production, post-deployment) with clear readiness and exit criteria
Ensure delivery plans account for constraints such as data readiness, integrations and connectors, identity and permissioning, security reviews, and release readiness
Co-develop and maintain the Workplace AI vision and multi-horizon strategy (Now, Next, Later), in partnership with the Head of Digital Workplace AI and Digital Workplace AI Exco
Translate the vision into a small set of enterprise scenario bets, with clear principles, guardrails, and sequencing that reflect real capacity and dependencies
Own the portfolio narrative for Workplace AI, ensuring leadership and stakeholders understand what we are building, why it matters, and how it connects across tools
Translate the Workplace AI vision into an executable scenario blueprint and capability map that clarifies what will be standardized, reused, and bespoke
Maintain a prioritized scenario library that defines target users, workflows, and expected outcomes for high-frequency moments that matter
Drive coherence across Copilot, chat, agents, and automation so employees have a consistent path from question to action across channels
Define outcome metrics for priority scenarios (time saved, cycle time reduction, deflection, quality, user satisfaction, etc.) and ensure they are measurable and attributable
Establish a measurement approach that combines telemetry and insights, user feedback, and business validation to quantify impact and inform portfolio decisions
Build portfolio dashboards and executive-ready reporting that communicate what is live, what is scaling, what is next, and the value delivered
Drive evidence-based decisions to iterate, scale, pause, or stop initiatives based on realized outcomes
Lead post-release and post-scale retrospectives across priority initiatives, ensuring learnings translate into changes to roadmap, guardrails, and delivery process
Publish reusable agent and automation patterns with Workplace AI Operations to standardize escalation, logging, and safe operations
Convert governance into practical guardrails with Risk, Legal, Privacy, and Security to move fast with controls
Set AI experience quality standards with Workplace AI Engineering and Release & Transformation across accuracy, safety, and user acceptance
Run a consistent operating cadence with Workplace AI leads to align priorities, manage dependencies, and resolve trade-offs quickly
Partner with Adoption and Change Management to ensure targeted enablement plans exist for priority scenarios, with accountability for outcomes
Serve as a key partner to the Head of Digital Workplace AI for vendor and platform engagement by translating roadmap signals into portfolio implications and product-level requirements
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in product management, portfolio leadership, platform strategy, or enterprise transformation, including significant leadership experience in a cross-functional environment
Demonstrated success prioritizing and delivering a portfolio under constrained capacity, including making and defending trade-offs with senior stakeholders
Strong executive communication skills and the ability to build crisp narratives that connect vision, roadmap, and outcomes
Technical fluency across modern productivity platforms and enterprise architecture concepts, including identity, permissions, data access patterns, and integration dependencies
Strong analytical orientation with experience defining and tracking outcome metrics
Experience delivering AI-enabled products or workflow automation in an enterprise environment
Familiarity with productivity platforms, conversational experiences, and low-code automation tooling
Experience translating vendor and platform roadmaps into internal investment decisions and scalable delivery plans
Experience operating in regulated environments and partnering with risk and control functions
Benefits
Annual discretionary bonus
Healthcare
Leave benefits
Retirement benefits
Strong retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Comprehensive healthcare
Support for working parents
Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Company
BlackRock
BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.59BKey Investors
Ariel Yehezkel
2025-06-20Post Ipo Equity· $0.02M
2025-03-27Post Ipo Debt· $1.08B
2024-07-17Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
Leadership Team
Andrew Leba
Vice President & Legal Counsel
Mike Strug
Vice President
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