Director, Head of Equity Ownership & Governance
BNY Mellon•New York, NY
•$155,000 - $240,000•Onsite
About The Position
This role leads the design, governance, and evolution of BNY’s global equity programs, ensuring they operate as a strategic, scalable, and technology-enabled component of total rewards. The position transforms equity from a manually administered process into a high-integrity, low-risk, and data-informed ownership system, while shaping how equity supports talent strategy in a rapidly evolving, AI-enabled workforce.
Requirements
- Experience leading the design, governance, and evolution of global equity programs
- Experience transforming equity from a manually administered process into a high-integrity, low-risk, and data-informed ownership system
- Experience shaping how equity supports talent strategy in a rapidly evolving workforce
- Experience with equity system architecture and transformation
- Experience redesigning and modernizing end-to-end equity processes
- Experience architecting integrated workflows across equity platforms, payroll, HR systems, and vendor ecosystems
- Experience leading automation and system optimization efforts
- Experience establishing and maintaining robust governance frameworks
- Experience anticipating and mitigating operational, regulatory, and financial risks tied to global equity delivery
- Experience owning the integrity of vesting, taxation alignment, and share delivery across jurisdictions
- Experience partnering with Total Rewards and executive stakeholders to evolve equity programs
- Experience monitoring industry practices, regulatory changes, and emerging models of ownership
- Experience translating strategy into scalable, executable program design
- Experience leveraging equity data to provide insights on utilization, retention impact, and cost effectiveness
- Experience defining metrics that connect equity programs to business and talent outcomes
- Experience partnering with analytics teams to enhance visibility and decision-making
- Experience serving as a central point of expertise connecting payroll, finance, legal, engineering, and external vendors
- Experience influencing vendor strategy, system roadmap decisions, and integration priorities
- Experience driving alignment across functions to ensure seamless execution and continuous improvement
- Experience elevating how employees understand and experience equity
- Experience simplifying complex concepts into clear, accessible communication and tools
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AI-driven workforce changes
Responsibilities
- Redesign and modernize end-to-end equity processes to eliminate manual work, reduce operational risk, and enable scale
- Architect integrated workflows across equity platforms, payroll, HR systems, and vendor ecosystems
- Lead automation and system optimization efforts in partnership with engineering and external providers
- Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks ensuring accuracy, compliance, and audit readiness across all equity programs
- Anticipate and mitigate operational, regulatory, and financial risks tied to global equity delivery
- Own the integrity of vesting, taxation alignment, and share delivery across jurisdictions
- Partner with Total Rewards and executive stakeholders to evolve equity programs in line with business strategy, market trends, and workforce shifts
- Monitor industry practices, regulatory changes, and emerging models of ownership (including implications of AI-driven workforce changes)
- Translate strategy into scalable, executable program design
- Leverage equity data to provide insights on utilization, retention impact, and cost effectiveness
- Define metrics that connect equity programs to business and talent outcomes
- Partner with analytics teams to enhance visibility and decision-making
- Serve as the central point of expertise connecting payroll, finance, legal, engineering, and external vendors
- Influence vendor strategy, system roadmap decisions, and integration priorities
- Drive alignment across functions to ensure seamless execution and continuous improvement
- Elevate how employees understand and experience equity as part of their total rewards
- Simplify complex concepts into clear, accessible communication and tools
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation
- Benefits and wellbeing programs
- Access to flexible global resources and tools
- Generous paid leaves
- Paid volunteer time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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