Director, POM Product Specialist

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Director of Product Management for the Loans Enablement Platform in New York, NY. The role focuses on shaping product strategy, prioritizing the backlog, and coordinating with senior stakeholders to deliver scalable platform capabilities in loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.

You will drive lifecycle execution from discovery to rollout, build business cases, and push modernization while ensuring governance and regulatory alignment in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 12+ years of experience in product management or related leadership roles.
• Experience owning backlogs, roadmaps, and prioritization in agile environments.
• Ability to translate strategy into outcomes and delivery direction.
• Strong commercial acumen and risk/scale balancing.
• Strong stakeholder leadership across senior business and technology.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead product direction for a broader capability set or strategic workstream within the Loans Enablement Platform.
• Own strategic backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment to objectives, user needs, delivery capacity, and regulatory considerations.
• Document and define product requirements at a strategic level with clear scope and outcomes.
• Translate business strategy and market opportunities into roadmap direction and executable delivery outcomes.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations, and control functions to align priorities.
• Evaluate opportunities and platform enhancements through a commercial, strategic lens.
• Drive product lifecycle execution from discovery through rollout and optimization.
• Shape business cases and strategic recommendations for platform investments and evolution.
• Identify opportunities to modernize the platform through workflows and emerging technologies.
• Use market intelligence and product data to inform prioritization and decision-making.
• Ensure product work aligns with governance, control, and regulatory expectations.

Skills

Stakeholder leadership

Backlog management

Roadmap planning

Strategic thinking

Agile methodology

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a Director, Product Manager for our Loan Enablement's platform. The role would be based in New York, NY

We are seeking a Director, Product Manager for our Loan Enablement's platform. The role would be based in New York, NY

Join BNY’s Loans Enablement Platform team and help shape the future of product innovation across lending, digital assets, and intelligent workflow transformation. We’re looking for commercially minded product professionals who can turn strategic opportunities into scalable platform capabilities, with particular interest in experience across loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Lead product direction for a broader capability set or strategic workstream within the Loans Enablement Platform.
• Own strategic backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment to business objectives, user needs, delivery capacity, and regulatory considerations.
• Document and define product requirements at a strategic level, ensuring clarity of scope, intended outcomes, and execution priorities across complex initiatives.
• Translate business strategy and market opportunities into roadmap direction, product priorities, and executable delivery outcomes.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations, and control functions to align priorities and drive decision-making.
• Evaluate product opportunities, investment choices, and platform enhancements through a commercial, strategic, and operational lens.
• Drive product lifecycle execution from discovery and definition through implementation, rollout, and ongoing optimization.
• Shape business cases and strategic recommendations for platform investments, innovation opportunities, and product evolution.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and differentiate the platform through improved workflows, digital capabilities, and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Use market intelligence, operational insight, and product data to inform prioritization and support strategic decision-making.
• Ensure product work is delivered in line with governance, control, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
• Bring thought leadership on innovation themes relevant to the platform, particularly across loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 12 or more years of experience
• Significant experience in product management, product leadership, platform delivery, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience owning or shaping backlogs, roadmaps, and prioritization in agile or iterative environments.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into clear product outcomes and delivery direction.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to balance business value, execution complexity, risk, and platform scalability.
• Strong stakeholder leadership and influencing skills across senior business and technology audiences.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience in financial services, with preference for experience in loans, lending platforms, or related workflow transformation.
• Familiarity with digital assets, tokenisation, blockchain, and emerging AI applications in financial services.
• Experience driving platform modernization or product transformation in a regulated operating environment.
• Understanding of governance, control, and regulatory considerations relevant to financial products and platforms.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Proven ability to shape product direction and drive strategic prioritization across complex initiatives.
• Strong commercial and product instincts, with the ability to connect platform evolution to measurable business outcomes.
• Domain credibility in loans and strong interest in the technologies shaping the future of financial services.
• Confidence operating at pace across a matrixed stakeholder environment with multiple priorities and dependencies.

About Us

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 is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

About The Team

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn

Here’s a Few Of Our Recent Awards

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Our Benefits And Rewards

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.