Strategic ETF Trading Leader

6 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States BlackRock Services Full time
About the Role

This is a multifaceted position where the successful candidate will be responsible for strategic leadership in identifying, spearheading, and implementing initiatives aimed at enhancing market quality for ETFs, with the primary focus on mitigating trading frictions in the ETF trading ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities
  • Be a risk manager, ensuring our ETFs and their shareholders are protected
  • Be an ETF trading subject matter expert and demonstrate in-depth product knowledge to promote efficient ETF trading and differentiate iShares from competitor funds and other investment vehicles
  • Foster strong relationships with ETF market participants (such as Authorized Participants, Market Makers)
  • Lead the identification and analysis of trading frictions and inefficiencies affecting ETF market quality
  • Develop and implement strategic initiatives to enhance ETF trading ecosystem
  • Collaborate with external liquidity providers, grow those relationships, and collectively drive strategies which can improve ETF trading efficiency
  • Partner with internal stakeholders including product development teams and portfolio managers to implement product design and trading operational improvements
  • Partner with technology and platform teams to manage and support a global technology pipeline and test and implement key enhancements to our primary market platform
  • Collect, analyze and extract meaning from ETF trading data to produce relevant market content
Requirements
  • BA / BS in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or similar field; CFA a plus
  • 5-7 years industry experience with an understanding of trading and market infrastructure
  • Series 7 and 63 required (may be obtained post-hire)
  • Strong strategic attitude to identify long-term solutions or improvement in current processes
  • Project Management skills to ensure successful execution of initiatives
  • Risk management mentality, able to identify downstream implications and proactively call out vulnerabilities
  • High level of motivation, comfort with ambiguity and the ability to function well under time pressure
  • High degree of professional discretion, accountability, and judgment
  • Confirmed relationship-building abilities, particularly influencing, and listening to people across different functions and seniorities
  • Strong oral and written communication skills-the ability to clearly and accurately communicate information to a wide group of internal and external stakeholders is critical to this function
  • Prior ETF industry or trading experience is desirable


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