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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
About this role
About this Role:
The Participant Engagement team is responsible for helping retirement plan participants move from awareness to understanding, confidence, action, and ultimately better retirement outcomes. We partner across Product, Distribution, Retirement Solutions, Marketing, Client Businesses, Recordkeepers, Advisors, and Plan Sponsors to transform participant engagement into a strategic driver of participant outcomes, client value, and business growth.
We are seeking a Vice President, Participant Engagement to help shape and scale the future of participant experience and engagement across BlackRock's retirement and DC platform. This individual will play a key role in client-facing strategy, commercialization, sales enablement, participant experience innovation, and business development efforts supporting solutions such as LifePath Paycheck®, MyLifePath®, and future retirement offerings.
The ideal candidate is strategic, commercially minded, energized by working with clients, and passionate about growing business through exceptional participant experiences. This role requires strong relationship management skills, the ability to influence senior stakeholders, and a natural curiosity for identifying opportunities to improve participant outcomes while creating value for clients and the broader retirement ecosystem. We welcome candidates from a variety of backgrounds who are excited to build a career in financial services and retirement, and who are eager to learn, innovate, and help shape the future of participant engagement.
Responsibilities:
Commercialization & Business Growth
Participant Experience Strategy & Innovation
Campaigns, Education & Activation
Analytics & Continuous Improvement
AI-Enabled Productivity & Scale
What Success Looks Like
Ideal Candidate
Bottom Line
This role sits at the intersection of participant experience, client engagement, commercialization, and business growth. The successful candidate will help bring BlackRock's retirement innovation to life by creating compelling participant experiences, strengthening client relationships, enabling sales efforts, and helping drive the continued growth of BlackRock's retirement business.

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$150,000.00 - USD$200,000.00 . 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 Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. 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.