VP – Operations, Enterprise Technology
Job Summary
Blackstone is the worlds largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstones over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate private equity credit infrastructure life sciences growth equity secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at . Follow @blackstone onLinkedInX (Twitter) andInstagram.
Firm Overview
Blackstone is the worlds largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstones over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate private equity credit infrastructure life sciences growth equity secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at . Follow @blackstone onLinkedInX (Twitter) andInstagram.
Business Unit
BXTI
Business Description
Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstones 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.
BXTiis 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.
Job Title
VP Operations Enterprise Technology
Job Description
The VP Operations Enterprise Technology is a leadership role responsible for establishing and driving the operational management frameworkacross Enterprise Technology Operations.
The role serves as the central coordinating and governancefunction that ensures consistency accountability transparency operational rigor and continuous improvement across all technology products and services. Working across Enterprise Technology teams this leader will drive operational excellencethrough governance service management operational intelligence process transformation risk management resilience planning and executive communications.
The role will act as a strategic advisorto the Enterprise Technology Leadership Team and will be responsible for ensuring that technology operations consistently deliver reliable resilient secure and business-aligned outcomes. This position plays a critical role in enabling Enterprise Technologys transition toward a product-centric predictive engineering-led operating model focused on incident prevention rapid recovery operational excellence and superior employee experience.
Key Responsibilities
Establish and continuously evolve the governance framework that drives accountability consistency transparency and operational excellence across all Enterprise Technology products and services
Define and maintainthe Technology Operations governance framework including decision rights accountability structures operating principles and escalation models
Establish governance forums including operational reviews service reviews reliability reviews risk reviews executive business reviews and transformation steering committees
Drive adoption of the product-centric operating model across Technology Operations clear ownership across Product Owners Engineering Operations Service Management SRE and external partners
Drive operational maturity through standardization simplification automation and continuous improvement initiatives establishing a formal Operational Excellence program across Technology Operations
Identify and improve operational inefficiencies process bottlenecks organizational friction points and service delivery gaps
Promote engineering-led operations and automation-first principles including operational maturity assessments and benchmarking frameworks
Develop operational policies standards procedures and controls that support enterprise-wide consistency
Define and monitor operational KPIs SLAs XLAs objectives and performance commitments
Ensure vendors and strategic partners deliver services consistent with BXTI operational standards and expectations with defined service expectations and control mechanisms
Ensure operational performance is continuously reviewed improved and aligned with business expectations establishing formal service review and operational review programs for reliability availability and other key service attributes
Drive Continual Service Improvement (CSI) initiatives partnering with Product Owners to improve operational outcomes
Develop operational scorecards and executive dashboards partnering with the Technology Operations Analytics & Intelligence team to generate actionable insights.
Ensure operational risks are identified measured managed and mitigated across Enterprise Technology Operations supporting audit compliance and regulatory activities
Oversee governance of Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Operational Resilience and Recovery Testing
Ensure timely accurate business-focused communications during operational events and ongoing service management activities defining templates and standards for key operational communication across the firm
Qualifications
Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group are highly motivated intelligent have sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.
12 years of experience in Technology Operations IT Service Management Operational Excellence Technology Governance or Enterprise Service Delivery
Proven experience leading large-scale global technology operations organizations
Deep expertise in ITIL and enterprise ITSM frameworks including strong experience with Incident Problem Change Service Level and Knowledge Management disciplines
Experience operating within product-centric engineering-led or SRE-enabled organizations
Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk
Experience leveraging DEX platforms suchas Nexthink
Experience managing operational risk resilience business continuity and crisis management
Experience working with enterprise observability telemetry and operational analytics platforms
Strong executive stakeholder management and communication skills
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 a 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.
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.
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 contact Human Resources at (US) 44 (0)(EMEA) or(APAC).
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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About Company
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager, serving institutional and individual investors by building strong businesses positioned to deliver lasting value.