Senior Vice President, POM Product Management - Government Solutions

BNY Mellon • New York, NY

20h • $104,000 - $218,000

About The Position

The Senior Vice President, POM Product Management – Government Solutions is a critical product leader on BNY’s Government Solutions team within Corporate Trust. The role owns product strategy, roadmaps, and delivery outcomes for products and workstreams supporting federal government clients, including programs serving millions of account holders and thousands of institutions. It serves as the accountable product link between federal agency clients, outside servicing and technology providers, and internal engineering, operations, risk, and control teams.

The position leads product vision and prioritization across a portfolio that may include contributions processing, account lifecycle, rollovers, client portals, reporting, data, and analytics. It provides technical product leadership, manages senior client and provider relationships, and oversees specifications, integrations, release readiness, quality and acceptance, scaled-agile planning, and financial considerations. The role also leads and develops a matrix team, establishes consistent product practices, and represents government program product management with BNY leadership and governance groups.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 8–10+ years of product management experience, including strategic roadmaps, highly technical product and application development, and cross-functional work in a highly matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of a complex, regulated product from ideation through launch and ongoing revision at scale.
• Experience leading data product strategies and roadmaps involving highly sensitive data in large-scale applications.
• Track record managing outside technology and servicing providers and third-party integrations, including API contracts, file specifications, joint testing, and joint release planning.
• Deep knowledge of product delivery and scaled agile methodologies, with experience working with multiple scrum teams on simultaneous builds.
• Proficiency with JIRA or similar tools.
• Experience navigating new product approval, risk, compliance, and control processes in a regulated financial institution.
• Experience providing day-to-day technical and design direction, including UX, portal, and API design, and making scope trade-offs against fixed regulatory deadlines.
• Executive presence and strong written communication; able to brief senior BNY and government leaders concisely and escalate calmly with data under pressure.
• Ability to meet program-specific background check, confidentiality, and work-location requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering products for federal or state government clients.
• Financial services experience in trust, custody, brokerage, retirement or savings, or payments.
• Working knowledge of federal security and privacy frameworks such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or IRS Publication 1075.
• Experience building and leading product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, multi-year roadmap, prioritized backlog, and outcomes for a portfolio of federal program products.
• Lead transparent prioritization and trade-off decisions among federal agency stakeholders, outside providers, and internal platforms; align stakeholders on scope, dates, and rationale.
• Bridge architecture, engineering, client, business, operations, and product teams; communicate solution implementation and maintain product specifications, PRDs, and delivery documentation.
• Serve as the senior product counterpart to federal agency program leads and outside providers; lead design reviews and sign-offs, manage interface, file, and API specifications and change requests, and escalate risks to commitments.
• Set strategy for data, reporting, and analytics products, including client dashboards, sponsor and donor reporting, and self-service analytics, within federal data-protection boundaries.
• Own product-side launch readiness, including approval conditions, risk and compliance evidence, production runbooks, operational playbooks, and post-launch commitments.
• Define requirements and acceptance criteria; work with engineering and QA on program-level integrated testing, regression testing, and test data management, and coordinate releases across dependent systems.
• Lead product participation in scaled-agile planning, including PI planning, cross-platform dependencies, and backlog hygiene across multiple pods and builds; collaborate on capacity and sequencing.
• Consider servicing costs, provider forecasts, invoicing, revenue, costs, and client commitments when making product decisions.
• Lead, coach, and develop a matrix team; establish consistent practices for roadmaps, requirements, documentation, and decision logs.
• Act as a subject-matter expert on government program product management across BNY and represent the product to senior leadership, governance committees, and relevant external forums.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Wellbeing programs and flexible global resources and tools.
• Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• 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.
• Eligible employees may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award.

What This Job Offers

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