HR Tech Product Manager, AVP - Blackstone Technology & innovations

Product Manager

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis.

Business Unit Overview: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone's businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

The Role: As a product manager, you will play a critical role in the configuration, system administration, and maintenance primarily of Workday, the firms master system for Human Capital Management & and recruiting, as well as also supporting Dayforce, ServiceNow and other systems on an as-needed basis. You will be responsible for creatively designing and implementing configuration solutions to meet complex business requirements, ensuring the system aligns with organizational goals while maintaining operational efficiency. You will also be responsible for the maintenance, testing, and auditing of system configuration changes, as well as troubleshooting and managing updates to various integrations between Workday and our Dayforce payroll and benefits system. Additionally, you will help oversee Project & Process Management for new and existing initiatives, driving innovation and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

Human Resources Information System ("HRIS") Project & Process Management:

• Collaborate with Human Resources, SIG/payroll, and external business colleagues, to identify areas for improvement.
• Propose creative solutions to address business needs within the technical constraints of the firm's cloud-based systems.
• Gather and document business requirements, ensuring alignment with system capabilities.
• Participate directly in Workday configuration activities, where needed.
• Manage business relationships with external vendors supporting Workday configuration, ensuring clear communication of business needs, priorities, and expectations, pushing all stakeholders for and with creative ideating, and managing timelines and deliverables to ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Perform testing activities; document test scenarios, create test scripts for configuration and process changes.
• Perform data validation activities to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Resolve issues and defects, escalating as needed.
• Provide assistance and support on HRIS projects, organizing and tracking the rollout and completion of various initiatives.

Qualifications

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group, are highly motivated, intelligent, have sound professional judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.

The successful candidate must have:

• 5+ years HRIS experience
• 5+ years of Workday experience
• Experience working in a global organization
• Experience working in the financial services industry is highly preferred
• A strong understanding of Human Resources, payroll and finance processes and procedures (i.e.g., recruiting, benefits, payroll, performance management, time tracking, etc.)
• A strong attention to detail
• An ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, concurrently and independently, resolve issues, meet deadlines, and escalate appropriately to management as appropriate.
• Excellent organizational, and interpersonal, and written and verbal communication skills including written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• An ability to handle highly sensitive data with confidentiality and professional integrity
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel must be comfortable with v-lookups and pivot tables.
• A demonstrated ability to quickly adapt to learn new systems
• Bachelor's degree

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: $160,000 - $200,000. 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: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at HR-Recruiting-Americas@Blackstone.com.

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.