Director, POM Product Specialist

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is seeking a Director, Product Manager for the Loan Enablement Platform in New York City. You will shape product strategy across lending, digital assets, and intelligent workflows, translating opportunities into scalable platform capabilities with a focus on loans, tokenisation, blockchain, and AI.

You will own the strategic backlog, collaborate with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations and control, and drive end-to-end lifecycle from discovery through rollout.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in product management or related leadership roles.
• Strong backlog ownership and roadmap prioritization in agile environments.
• Ability to translate strategy into clear product outcomes and delivery direction.
• Strong commercial acumen balancing value, risk, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Define product direction for a broad capability set within the Loans Enablement Platform.
• Own strategic backlog prioritization aligned to business objectives and regulatory considerations.
• Document strategic-level product requirements with clear scope and outcomes.
• Translate strategy and opportunities into roadmap direction and executable priorities.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations and control.
• Evaluate opportunities with a commercial, strategic, and operational lens.
• Oversee lifecycle from discovery to rollout and optimization.
• Build business cases for platform investments and innovations.
• Identify modernization opportunities with workflows and digital capabilities.
• Use market intelligence and data to inform prioritization and decisions.
• Ensure work complies with governance, legal, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
• Provide thought leadership on innovation themes like loans, tokenisation, blockchain, AI.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Backlog prioritization

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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.