Director, POM Product Specialist
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 turns strategic opportunities into scalable platform capabilities. The position focuses on lending, digital assets, and intelligent workflow transformation, with particular interest in loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI. The Director owns strategic backlog prioritization, defines product requirements, translates business strategy and market opportunities into roadmaps and delivery outcomes, and partners with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations, and control functions. The role also evaluates product opportunities and platform investments, manages product lifecycle execution from discovery through ongoing optimization, and ensures work meets governance, control, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or 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, with the ability to connect platform evolution to measurable business outcomes.
- Credibility in the loans domain and 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, including 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 through commercial, strategic, and operational lenses.
- 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 decisions.
- Ensure product work meets governance, control, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
- Provide thought leadership on innovation themes relevant to the platform, particularly loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
