Director, POM Product Specialist

BNY Mellon • New York, NY

3h • $130,000 - $230,000

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Director, Product Manager for its Loans Enablement Platform, based in New York, NY. The role leads product direction for a broader capability set or strategic workstream and helps shape product innovation across lending, digital assets, and intelligent workflow transformation. The position is suited to commercially minded product professionals who can turn strategic opportunities into scalable platform capabilities, particularly those with experience or interest in loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.

The Director owns strategic backlog prioritization and translates business strategy and market opportunities into roadmap direction, product priorities, and executable delivery outcomes. The role defines product requirements at a strategic level, partners with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations, and control functions, and evaluates opportunities, investments, and platform enhancements through commercial, strategic, and operational perspectives. It drives product lifecycle execution from discovery through implementation, rollout, and ongoing optimization, while shaping business cases and recommendations for platform investments and evolution.

The position also identifies opportunities to modernize and differentiate the platform through improved workflows, digital capabilities, and emerging technologies. It uses market intelligence, operational insight, and product data to guide decisions and ensures work meets governance, control, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations. BNY describes its culture as supporting employee growth and success and offers competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 12 or more years of experience.
• Significant experience in product management, product leadership, platform delivery, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience owning or shaping backlogs, roadmaps, and prioritization in agile or iterative environments.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into clear product outcomes and delivery direction.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to balance business value, execution complexity, risk, and platform scalability.
• Strong stakeholder leadership and influencing skills across senior business and technology audiences.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.

Nice To Haves

• Strong financial services experience, preferably in loans, lending platforms, or related workflow transformation.
• Familiarity with digital assets, tokenisation, blockchain, and emerging AI applications in financial services.
• Experience driving platform modernization or product transformation in a regulated operating environment.
• Understanding of governance, control, and regulatory considerations relevant to financial products and platforms.
• Proven ability to shape product direction and drive strategic prioritization across complex initiatives.
• Strong commercial and product instincts, connecting platform evolution to measurable business outcomes.
• Credibility in the loans domain and a strong interest in technologies shaping the future of financial services.
• Confidence operating at pace across a matrixed stakeholder environment with multiple priorities and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead product direction for a broader capability set or strategic workstream within the Loans Enablement Platform.
• Own strategic backlog prioritization, aligning it with business objectives, user needs, delivery capacity, and regulatory considerations.
• Document and define strategic-level product requirements, clarifying scope, intended outcomes, and execution priorities for complex initiatives.
• Translate business strategy and market opportunities into roadmap direction, product priorities, and executable delivery outcomes.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations, and control functions to align priorities and drive decisions.
• Evaluate product opportunities, investment choices, and platform enhancements from commercial, strategic, and operational perspectives.
• Drive product lifecycle execution from discovery and definition through implementation, rollout, and ongoing optimization.
• Shape business cases and strategic recommendations for platform investments, innovation opportunities, and product evolution.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and differentiate the platform through improved workflows, digital capabilities, and emerging technologies.
• Use market intelligence, operational insight, and product data to inform prioritization and strategic decision-making.
• Ensure product work complies with governance, control, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
• Provide thought leadership on innovation themes relevant to the platform, particularly loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Benefits and wellbeing programs.
• Flexible global resources and tools.
• Paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.
• Eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan.
• Eligible employees may participate in company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans.
• Eligible employees may receive paid time off, including vacation and sick time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director