Senior Vice President, Program and Project Management
About The Position
At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide. Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary. We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Program and Program Management to join our Enterprise Custody Services Platform. This role is located in New York.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
- 10+ years of experience in program/project delivery, portfolio delivery, or large-scale transformation in a complex, multi-team environment.
- Demonstrated success operating at enterprise scale, across multiple products, platforms and delivery organizations.
- Deep experience working alongside Product Management, RTEs and Agile delivery leadership.
- Background in financial services, asset servicing strongly preferred.
- Outcome‑focused and strategically pragmatic.
- Calm under ambiguity; able to create clarity without oversimplification.
- Strong risk, issue, and dependency management skills, including facilitation of decision-making forums.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready status reporting and narrative building.
- Proficiency with portfolio and delivery tooling (e.g., Jira, dashboards, dependency mapping, RAID logs).
Responsibilities
- Ensure that cross‑platform, cross‑product initiatives — where outcomes depend on multiple products, shared platforms, and implementation teams — are intentionally orchestrated, proactively de‑risked and transparently managed.
- Provide strategic delivery leadership, enabling Product Management and senior stakeholders to make informed, timely decisions based on a single, integrated view of value, risk, dependencies and client commitments.
- Establish and maintain a cross‑platform view of dependencies, sequencing and critical paths impacting initiative outcomes.
- Elevate management information from retrospective reporting to forward‑looking insight that enables early course‑correction.
- Partner with STEs, RTEs and senior delivery leaders to identify cross‑platform critical paths and systemic hotspots.
- Facilitate senior‑level forums that connect Product Management, Product Owners and Platform Leads around issues that require strategic decision‑making.
- Reduce late escalation by embedding a proactive, anticipatory delivery culture.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on delivery feasibility, sequencing and risk.
- Single point of contact, escalation and status for initiative sponsor and key stakeholders across Product groups and platforms.
- Coordinate discovery and management of full end-to-end plan.
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation
- Benefits and wellbeing programs
- Access to flexible global resources and tools
- Generous paid leaves
- Paid volunteer time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
