Senior Vice President, POM Product Specialist

BNY Mellon•New York, NY

4d•Onsite

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, POM Product Specialist for its Loans Enablement Platform in New York, NY. The role shapes product innovation across lending, digital assets, and intelligent workflow transformation. The successful candidate owns a defined product area or capability set, sets backlog direction, drives prioritization, and manages dependencies across business and technology teams to deliver platform outcomes. The position calls for commercial judgment and the ability to translate strategic goals and stakeholder needs into clear requirements and executable delivery priorities. The product specialist partners with engineering, delivery, business, operations, risk, legal, and compliance teams. The role contributes to roadmap development, evaluates product and modernization opportunities, supports business cases and investment recommendations, and uses data, user insights, workflow analysis, and operational feedback to improve outcomes. Product execution must align with governance, risk, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations. The role also monitors developments in loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI for relevant platform opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Meaningful experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or platform delivery.
Strong experience owning product backlogs and driving prioritization in agile or iterative delivery environments.
Proven ability to define product requirements and translate complex business needs into clear, executable delivery outcomes.
Experience managing cross-functional dependencies and coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholder groups.
Strong commercial judgment and ability to assess value, feasibility, risk, and execution trade-offs.
Effective stakeholder management across business, technology, and control functions.
Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Financial services experience, preferably in loans or an adjacent domain.
Familiarity with platform transformation, workflow digitization, or product modernization in regulated environments.
Exposure to tokenisation, blockchain or distributed ledger technology, and AI use cases in financial services.
Understanding of governance, regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements relevant to product delivery.
Demonstrated experience setting backlog direction and driving prioritization in a complex platform or product environment.
Ability to manage dependencies, align stakeholders, and maintain execution momentum across a cross-functional delivery model.
Ability to connect product decisions to commercial outcomes, strategic value, and platform evolution.
Domain curiosity and practical understanding of innovation themes shaping financial services.
Confidence influencing stakeholders, managing trade-offs, and delivering outcomes in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

Own and actively manage the backlog for a defined product area or platform capability, aligning priorities with strategic objectives, business value, user needs, and delivery capacity.
Set backlog direction and prioritize competing demands, making trade-offs to optimize business outcomes and execution focus.
Document, define, and refine business and product requirements, translating strategic priorities and stakeholder needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery artifacts.
Work with engineering and delivery teams to ensure backlog items are defined, sequenced, and ready for execution.
Identify, manage, and help resolve dependencies across product, technology, operations, and control functions.
Partner with business, engineering, operations, risk, legal, and compliance stakeholders to align scope, sequencing, and implementation approach.
Contribute to roadmap development and product direction based on platform opportunities, workflow improvement needs, and market developments.
Evaluate new features, strategic enhancements, and modernization opportunities using commercial, strategic, and execution-focused criteria.
Support business cases and recommendations for prioritization, investment, and product evolution.
Use data, user insight, workflow analysis, and operational feedback to improve product outcomes and inform prioritization.
Ensure product execution aligns with governance, risk, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
Monitor developments across loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI and translate relevant trends into actionable platform opportunities.