Associate, Investment Writer, BlackRock Investment Institute (BII)
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Responsibilities
- Being a lead writer of BII's Global Weekly Commentary
- Collaborating with BII's investment strategy, macro and portfolio construction teams to create content
- Harnessing AI to improve transform editorial and production processes while maintaining writing quality and accuracy
- Partnering with Digital Marketing to produce social and digital content to magnify BII's impact.
- Working with compliance and public policy teams to produce BII publications
- Collaborating with Marketing and Communications teams to further BlackRock's thought leadership
- Interacting with senior BlackRock portfolio managers to summarize views and put together investment insights
Requirements
- Superb writing, editing and storytelling abilities
- Knowledge of and passion for economics and global financial markets
- A self-starter with loads of creativity, team spirit, versatility and persistence
- Ability to work very quickly, deliver on or before deadline and go the extra mile
- Work experience of at least 5 years, with a preference for real-time financial journalism. We will consider candidates with more experience.
- Intense attention to accuracy, detail and consistency
- Intellectual curiosity
- Adept at working with AI tools, data mining and using Excel to create graphics
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About this role Joining BlackRock means becoming a part of a community of smart and curious people who are tackling some of the world's most complex financial challenges. And our founder-led culture has maintained its entrepreneurial feel - we work hard, we work fast and we work with purpose. What team will you be on? The BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) team is at the heart of BlackRock's investment debate and portfolio construction. BII provides a platform for BlackRock's portfolio managers to debate timely topics affecting markets - and disseminates actionable conclusions through internal summaries and client publications. This nimble, global team has outsized impact on BlackRock's performance, commercial success and brand. Are you passionate about financial markets? Do you enjoy turning a views, data and facts into concise and engaging publications? Are you ready to learn something new every day and leverage LLMs to help reshape our workflow? If so, this is the role for you. We are looking for an ace financial writer and storyteller to join our publishing team in New York to produce high-quality thought leadership across media platforms. Why is your role important? The New York-based investment writer spearheads BII's flagship Global Weekly Commentary. The position is responsible for producing investment insights for BlackRock clients and portfolio managers across media. It's part of the global BII publishing team and supports BII's array of other publications and digital tools.
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