Vice President, POM Product Specialist

BNY Mellon•New York, NY

4d•Onsite

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Vice President, POM Product Specialist to join its Loans Enablement team in the New York, NY offices. The role supports product innovation across lending, digital assets, and intelligent workflow transformation, with a focus on developing and enhancing capabilities for the Loans Enablement Platform. The successful candidate will help translate business needs into structured requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and execution-ready backlog items, and will contribute to platform delivery, product execution, and backlog management in a complex financial services environment. The position involves analyzing business processes and user workflows, identifying opportunities to improve products and processes, and partnering with product, technology, operations, control functions, and other stakeholders. The specialist will contribute across the product lifecycle, using data, user feedback, and operational insights to inform prioritization and continuous improvement. The role also monitors relevant market developments and emerging technologies—including tokenisation, blockchain, and AI—and helps assess their potential application to platform requirements and workflow improvements. Product work must align with governance, risk, legal, and compliance expectations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience in product management, business analysis, platform delivery, project execution, or a related field.
Experience working in agile or iterative delivery environments.
Ability to document and manage business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to assess workflows and translate findings into actionable product requirements.
Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Interest in financial services, platform transformation, and product innovation.

Nice To Haves

Experience in financial services, particularly exposure to loans or related workflow-based products.
Familiarity with product backlogs, sprint planning, agile ceremonies, and workflow analysis.
Exposure to tokenisation, blockchain, or AI-enabled solutions in a business or product context.
Understanding of regulatory and control considerations in a financial services environment.
A strong product mindset and curiosity about how platforms create business value through better workflows and user outcomes.
Experience documenting requirements, writing user stories, and supporting delivery across complex stakeholder groups.
Interest in the modernization of lending workflows and digital operating models.
Ability to learn quickly and contribute effectively in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

Support the development and enhancement of product capabilities within the Loans Enablement Platform.
Manage and refine the product backlog, ensuring user stories and requirements are clearly defined and aligned with business priorities.
Document and define business and product requirements, translating stakeholder needs into structured requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for delivery teams.
Analyze business processes and user workflows to identify pain points, inefficiencies, and opportunities for product or process improvement.
Work with stakeholders to understand business needs and turn them into actionable delivery artifacts.
Partner with product, technology, operations, and control colleagues to support execution of prioritized initiatives.
Contribute to product lifecycle activities, including discovery, analysis, testing, implementation, and post-launch improvement.
Use data, user feedback, and operational insight to support prioritization and continuous enhancement.
Identify opportunities to improve workflows, digitize processes, and enhance user experience through product changes.
Monitor market developments and emerging technologies, including loans platform transformation, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI, and assess their potential implications for platform requirements or workflow improvements.
Prepare materials that inform product recommendations, prioritization, and delivery planning.
Ensure product work meets governance, risk, legal, and compliance expectations.