Vice President, Group Delivery Lead

BNY Mellon•New York, NY

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Group Delivery Lead to join our AI Hub team. This role is located in New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: Support planning and execution across business priorities, AI/ML initiatives, resource needs, and delivery commitments to help achieve strategic objectives. Partner with stakeholders to provide visibility into key programs and initiatives, including tracking priorities, dependencies, milestones, risks, and action items. Assist in maintaining roadmaps, backlogs, and planning activities by helping coordinate demand, capacity, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies. Translate strategic direction into actionable plans, ensuring initiatives are clearly documented, tracked, and progressed to completion. Build collaborative relationships across engineering, product, business, risk, finance, operations, and delivery teams to support alignment and execution. Coordinate leadership meetings, status reviews, decision forums, and follow-up activities to help drive transparency and operational effectiveness. Contribute to governance, delivery excellence, and process improvement efforts through reporting, analytics, metrics, and risk tracking. Partner with risk, governance, and control teams to support compliance requirements while balancing business and delivery objectives. Develop ready executive reports, presentations, and insights that summarize complex information and support informed decision-making. Identify opportunities to improve processes, communication, and team effectiveness, helping increase operational efficiency and execution consistency.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline (e.g., Business, Engineering, Operations, or related field).
Typically, 5-8 years of experience.
Strong planning, execution, and program coordination skills, ideally within AI/ML, data, technology, digital, or transformation-focused organizations.
Experience supporting delivery across cross-functional teams, with working knowledge of agile methodologies, backlog management, dependency tracking, milestone planning, and delivery reporting.
Demonstrated ability to organize complex initiatives, manage competing priorities, and drive follow-through in a fast-paced environment.
Strong analytical and data literacy skills, including experience developing metrics, dashboards, reports, and insights to support decision-making and measure outcomes.
Ability to build effective relationships across a matrixed organization and collaborate with stakeholders at varying levels through clear communication, sound judgment, and a proactive approach.
Excellent communication, problem-solving, and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear recommendations and actionable next steps.
Experience preparing reports, business updates, and presentations for leadership audiences.

Nice To Haves

Professional certification in project, program, or portfolio management (e.g., PMP, SAFe, Agile/Scrum) preferred.

Responsibilities

Support planning and execution across business priorities, AI/ML initiatives, resource needs, and delivery commitments to help achieve strategic objectives.
Partner with stakeholders to provide visibility into key programs and initiatives, including tracking priorities, dependencies, milestones, risks, and action items.
Assist in maintaining roadmaps, backlogs, and planning activities by helping coordinate demand, capacity, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies.
Translate strategic direction into actionable plans, ensuring initiatives are clearly documented, tracked, and progressed to completion.
Build collaborative relationships across engineering, product, business, risk, finance, operations, and delivery teams to support alignment and execution.
Coordinate leadership meetings, status reviews, decision forums, and follow-up activities to help drive transparency and operational effectiveness.
Contribute to governance, delivery excellence, and process improvement efforts through reporting, analytics, metrics, and risk tracking.
Partner with risk, governance, and control teams to support compliance requirements while balancing business and delivery objectives.
Develop ready executive reports, presentations, and insights that summarize complex information and support informed decision-making.
Identify opportunities to improve processes, communication, and team effectiveness, helping increase operational efficiency and execution consistency.