Vice President, Product Owner I

$88,000 - $162,000/Yr

BNY Mellon - Pittsburgh, PA

Full-time - Senior

Pittsburgh, PA

5,001-10,000 employees

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Vice President, Product Owner I role at BNY Mellon focuses on leading the Loans Enablement Platform, where the individual will be responsible for product ownership, strategy development, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance loan products. This position emphasizes the importance of customer insights, agile methodologies, and effective prioritization of initiatives to drive business value and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

• Product Ownership of a loan product, including product strategy, annual roadmaps, and quarterly initiatives.
• Contributes to the platform's strategic objectives and key results using product-specific data, metrics, and goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in operations and client teams to translate business needs into epics and stories.
• Responsible for prioritization of work based on business value, using estimated new revenue, operational KPI and KRIs, and other metrics.
• Provide day-to-day direction to guide the pod for clarification of story details and acceptance criteria.
• Identify and triage issues with specific features while understanding the interrelation of multiple features.
• Effectively define proper measurement and instrumentation for a product to analyze results post-release/launch.
• Assess the quality of existing UX to make recommendations on how to improve user experience.
• Create wireframes independently and in coordination with the design team.
• Sign off on stories through active participation in validation and Sprint Reviews.
• Facilitate handoff of stories requiring operational readiness, training, or adoption, continuing to track metrics to drive future stories.
• Foster agile ways of working, DevOps, and automated testing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience required; experience in the syndicated loan market, private wealth loans, administrative agent, or other loan-type asset classes, or money movement, reconciliations, trading.
• Systems implementation experience.
• Experience determining the MVP for initial go live.
• Ability to break down highly complex loan initiatives into small epics and stories that deliver incremental business value.
• Effective collaboration skills.
• Ability to influence, make hard decisions, and problem solve.
• Passion for changing the status quo, driving out of the box thinking.
• Ability to adapt and lead through change.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, computer science engineering or related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 5+ years of product experience and agile ways of working.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation
• Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time
• Access to flexible global resources and tools for personal and professional development
• Wellbeing programs to foster personal resilience and financial goals