Senior Vice President, POM Product Specialist

BNY Mellon • New York, NY

5d • $104,000 - $210,000 • Onsite

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Product Manager for its Loans Enablement Platform in New York, NY. The role helps shape product innovation across lending, digital assets, and intelligent workflow transformation, with particular interest in loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.

The successful candidate will own a defined product area or capability set in a complex platform environment. They will set product backlog direction, drive prioritization, manage dependencies across business and technology teams, and turn strategic goals into clear requirements and executable delivery priorities. The role calls for commercial judgment, strong product thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact platform outcomes.

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.
• 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 owning backlog direction and 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 sufficiently defined, appropriately 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 by assessing platform opportunities, workflow improvement needs, and market developments.
• Evaluate new features, strategic enhancements, and modernization opportunities from commercial, strategic, and execution perspectives.
• 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 help translate relevant trends into platform opportunities.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits, with possible eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.
• 401(k) plan for eligible employees.
• Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance for eligible employees and dependents.
• Paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time, depending on the position offered.
• Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• Wellbeing programs and access to flexible global resources and tools.

What This Job Offers

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