Real Estate - Innovation, Generalist at Blackstone in New York, NY

Job description

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s 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 www.blackstone.com . Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn , X (Twitter) , and Instagram . Job Description: Real Estate – Innovation, Generalist Business Unit: Blackstone is a global leader in real estate investing. Blackstone’s real estate business was founded in 1991 and has US $314 billion of investor capital under management. Blackstone is the largest owner of commercial real estate globally, owning and operating assets across every major geography and sector, including logistics, data centers, residential, office and hospitality. Our opportunistic funds seek to acquire undermanaged, well-located assets across the world. Blackstone’s Core+ business invests in substantially stabilized real estate assets globally, through both institutional strategies and strategies tailored for income-focused individual investors including Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (BREIT). Blackstone Real Estate also operates one of the leading global real estate debt businesses, providing comprehensive financing solutions across the capital structure and risk spectrum, including management of Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE: BXMT). Title: Associate Location: New York, NY Responsibilities : Blackstone Real Estate is pursuing an ambitious, multi-year transformation toward an AI-native operating model. The Innovation Generalist will sit at the center of that effort, helping drive the Innovation team’s strategic plan across the business, building deep expertise in how Real Estate works today and how it will work tomorrow, and serving as a first point of contact for the teams adopting new tools and workflows. Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Supporting execution of the Innovation team’s strategic plan across sectors, tracking priorities and deliverables, and driving projects to completion Producing materials and communications for stakeholders across Real Estate and for senior leadership, including updates, presentations and training content Developing deep expertise in how key Real Estate workflows are run today, including underwriting, valuations and forecasting processes, and using that knowledge to identify what should be standardized, automated or eliminated Becoming a subject matter expert in the firm’s existing proprietary tools and platforms and serving as a first point of contact for Real Estate users, maintaining and troubleshooting those systems where relevant Leading AI training sessions for the broader Real Estate team and raising AI literacy and adoption across the business Building expertise in AI workflow building and the practical use of enterprise AI tools, and helping capture and share the best prompts, agents and use cases developed across the team Assisting with identification and evaluation of new third-party AI tools worth piloting, including attending industry conferences to advise the team on the state of the art Communicating progress, risks and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Qualifications: Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated self-starters, work well in team-oriented environments, exercise sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. The successful candidate should meet the following qualifications: 1+ years of experience in real estate, private markets, investment management, financial services, consulting or a similar analytical role Undergraduate degree with strong academic record; a technical background (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.) is preferre