Blackstone is seeking a detail-oriented, entrepreneurial Vice President to join the Blackstone Private Wealth Marketing team focusing on investment education.
Private Wealth was established to answer the growing demand for Blackstone products from high-net worth and retail investors. Partnering with many of the world's largest private banks and wealth management firms, as well as family offices, Blackstone Private Wealth packages and delivers the full breadth of Blackstone's alternative product capability to these firms and their clients and provides ongoing product and advisor support, as well as education and training around alternatives.
This investment education team is responsible for creating and managing content, live events, and communications which help financial advisors and investors better understand private markets and their role in portfolios.
Responsibilities:- Participate in the development of the strategy and roadmap for investment education, identifying new strategic initiatives and opportunities to grow our efforts.
- Act as the key contributor in developing new investment content across written communications, charts, brochures, videos/scripts, and digital content for use on the web and live delivery.
- Manage the content development workflow through a full review process of stakeholders inside and outside the Private Wealth Marketing team. External stakeholders include but are not limited to legal & compliance, business unit subject-matter experts, firmwide marketing, and product strategy.
- Serve as a detail-oriented owner and manager of the data resources (Morningstar, Bloomberg, and other sources) underlying the educational content suite.
- Help ensure quality, error-free copy and data in all content. Must be skilled in editing for style, substance, and grammar.
- Facilitate on-time, to-specification delivery of all projects with a strong ownership mindset.
Qualifications:- 5+ years of experience in the asset management segment with a focus on content strategy and content creation.
- Passion for investment themes, ideas, and clear, simple expression of each.
- Previous work on private markets and alternative investment themes a plus.
- Demonstrated experience with and command of Morningstar Direct, Bloomberg, and other data providers.
- Strong Excel skills required. Think critically and creatively about large data sets; ownership mentality of data resources.
- History of driving strategic content development for financial advisor audience, with an understanding of the various intermediary channels in asset management.
- Organized, project-oriented, with experience managing recurring and opportunistic projects.
- Collaborative mindset; works across teams and business units across Blackstone.
The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.
Expected annual base salary range:$150,000 - $225,000
Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.
Additional compensation and benefits offered in connection with the role consist of comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone's sole discretion.
Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:
- Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
- Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
- Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
- Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
- Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.
Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.
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