ETF Primary Markets (Associate)

Overview About this role Join a high-impact team at the heart of the ETF ecosystem, where you’ll help shape, safeguard, and scale the primary market for iShares ETFs. As a Primary Market Specialist, you’ll be instrumental in protecting market integrity, driving innovation, and embedding intelligent automation across workflows. This is a unique opportunity to work with industry leaders, influence market architecture, and deliver solutions that power over $1 trillion in assets across global markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Primary Market Oversight: Act as a contact for broker-dealers, market makers, stock exchanges, and internal teams for all aspects of primary trading of iShares ETFs.
• Market Resilience: Proactively monitor market activity, manage crisis response, and engage with external partners (Authorised Participants, trading platforms, regulators) to ensure transparency, stability, and client trust.
• Lead and contribute to initiatives that redefine the primary market operating model, including regulatory engagement, onboarding enhancements, and platform innovation.
• Collaborate with technology teams to automate processes, optimise efficiency, and build scalable infrastructure. Drive adoption of AI and data-driven decision-making across ETF workflows.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external liquidity providers and internal partners (portfolio managers, traders, technologists). Influence and listen across functions and seniorities.
• Support complex product launches, workflow enhancements, and continuous refinement of market structure and trading platforms.
• Identify and promote awareness of operational and market risks, ensuring product integrity through automation and robust controls.

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in related financial services environment; ETF or Risk Management experience preferred
• High motivation, adaptability, and ability to thrive under time pressure and ambiguity.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate risks, opportunities, and strategic priorities.
• Strong analytical skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office is essential, with knowledge of Bloomberg, SQL, Python, and VBA desirable but not requisite.
• Proven relationship-building abilities and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
• Professional discretion, accountability, and sound judgement.

Why This Role Is Exciting

• Directly influence the resilience, transparency, and growth of the ETF ecosystem.
• Work at the forefront of market architecture, automation, and product development.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment supporting trillions in assets and thousands of transactions.
• Work across asset classes, covering the whole of the iShares UCITS ETF offering.
• Gain invaluable experience by collaborating with industry leaders, while benefiting from mentorship and continuous professional development opportunities.

Our Benefits To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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.

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.

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