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# Director, Data Product Owner & Data Modeling (HR / Finance / Client Domains)

- **Company:** Blackrock, Inc.
- **Location:** Princeton, NJ, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $215,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Information Engineering, Metadata, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Data Management, Data Delivery
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/BAB6CF85E3DE418DAAE241FDA0A46B7E/job/

## About the Role

* Strong understanding of a given data domain (e.g., HR, finance or client book of business)
 * Proven track record of defining data product strategy, roadmaps and prioritization frameworks and designing enterprise-grade data models with governance routines for quality, lineage, metadata and ownership
 * Demonstrated ability to deliver outcomes in large, matrixed enterprise environments
 * Strong communication skills, including the ability to engage senior stakeholders , drive alignment across functions and translate complex, competing business needs into structured, executable product plans
 * Experience leveraging AI to enable scalability and consistency, including automation, workflow standardization and improved knowledge sharing while maintaining ownership, governance and reliability of outcomes
Nice-to-Have Experience

 * Experience in asset management, investment management or a complex global financial institution
 * Familiarity with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), BI tools, metadata/catalog solutions and data quality tooling
 * Experience leading an organization's transition from report-centric delivery to product-oriented data delivery

## Description

The Data Product Owner reports to the Head of CFT Data and partners with senior stakeholders , CFT Platform engineering and enterprise data leadership . Da ta Product Owners lead the strategic direction for the data products serving BlackRock's corporate function s ., * Own the data product strategy, roadmap and backlog ; r ationalize fragmented reporting and data demand into a coherent portfolio

 * Define and manage the full data product lifecycle , e stablish ing reusable, governed assets that support workflows, AI use cases and regulatory needs
 * Design and maintain the end-to-end data model ; drive data quality, lineage, ownership and governance routines
 * Serve as the primary product interface between data stakeholders and technology teams, t ranslat ing business needs into clear product requirements, data definitions and implementation plans
 * Partner with CFT Platform and data engineering teams to implement pipelines, transformations, access patterns and distribution mechanisms
 * Collaborate with CFT teams supporting Finance, HR , Legal & Compliance and Audit to promote consistent data product practices and cross-functional reuse
 * Support adoption of enterprise data platforms, metadata/catalog standards and access controls


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