Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is seeking a Senior Vice President to join our Corporate Strategy team in New York. The role shapes the enterprise strategy across businesses, guiding ambitious initiatives and collaborating with senior leaders to drive growth and long-term value creation.

You will lead high-impact engagements end to end, frame hypotheses, analyze data and present actionable recommendations to executives, while applying AI responsibly and developing talent within the team.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of corporate strategy experience at a top financial institution, consulting firm or fintech.
• Strong understanding of financial institutions, market infrastructure, regulatory forces and related dynamics.
• Experience with AI, data analytics, automation and enterprise technology; ability to connect technical possibilities to business value.
• Proven track record evaluating or developing new products, platforms or partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise strategy across businesses and geographies, linking market shifts to priorities.
• Lead priority engagements end to end: structure questions, frame hypotheses, manage workstreams and synthesize recommendations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior management, sharpening priorities and surfacing trade-offs.
• Translate innovation into value by assessing AI, data, automation and new tech for growth and risk management.
• Build external perspectives by monitoring competitors, fintechs, regulators and client behavior.
• Apply AI responsibly in strategy craft, ensuring data protection, validation and transparency.
• Develop exceptional talent by coaching teams and enabling leadership development.

Skills

Strategy leadership experience

Financial services fluency

AI and technology judgment

Innovation perspective

Structured problem solving

Executive influence

Communication excellence

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, data or related discipline

MBA or other relevant advanced degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President to join our Corporate Strategy team in New York. The team works across the enterprise on the highest-priority questions shaping BNY's growth, competitive position and long-term value creation.

This role offers the opportunity to advise senior leaders, lead a portfolio of high-impact strategic engagements, and help shape the future of financial services as artificial intelligence, data, tokenization, and new market infrastructures transform capital markets.

In this role, you will shape BNY's future:

• Shape enterprise strategy. Help develop, challenge and articulate BNY's global strategy across businesses and geographies, linking market shifts and client needs to a focused set of enterprise priorities.

• Lead priority engagements end to end. Structure ambiguous questions, frame hypotheses, manage multiple workstreams, conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis, facilitate working sessions and synthesize recommendations into executable plans.

• Serve as a trusted advisor. Partner with business and functional executives to sharpen priorities, surface trade-offs and turn complex analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations for senior management.

• Translate innovation into value. Assess how AI, data, automation, digital assets and emerging technologies can create growth, improve client outcomes, expand capacity or reduce risk; and define pathways from concept to adoption and measurable value.

• Build fact-based external perspectives. Monitor competitors, technology firms, fintechs, infrastructure providers, regulators and client behavior; translate external developments into differentiated implications for BNY.

• Use AI responsibly in the strategy craft. Apply AI-enabled research, analytics and productivity tools to improve the speed and depth of strategic work while maintaining high standards for data protection, validation, transparency and human judgment.

• Develop exceptional talent. Lead, coach and mentor team members; strengthen apprenticeship and feedback; and help Corporate Strategy serve as a talent incubator and feeder of future leaders across BNY.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Strategy leadership experience. 6-8 years of relevant experience in corporate strategy at a top financial institution, top management consulting firms, leading fintechs; experience leading complex engagements and small teams is required.

• Financial services fluency. Strong understanding of financial institutions, market infrastructure and the economic, client and regulatory forces shaping the industry; experience in banking, asset servicing, markets, payments, wealth or investment management is preferred.

• AI and technology judgment. Working knowledge of generative and agentic AI, data and analytics, automation and enterprise technology, with the ability to connect technical possibilities and constraints to business value, operating-model implications and responsible adoption. Engineering expertise is not required.

• Innovation perspective. Experience evaluating or developing new products, platforms, ecosystems, business models or strategic partnerships.

• Structured problem solving and commercial acumen. An entrepreneurial, self-directed mindset and the ability to take an ambiguous challenge from fact base and hypotheses to clear choices, recommendations and execution plans, supported by sound market, client, financial and risk analysis.

• Executive influence and execution. Experience advising senior executives, influencing decisions without formal authority and leading multiple high-priority initiatives through thoughtful trade-offs to high-quality outcomes in a complex, matrixed organization.

• Communication excellence. Exceptional written, verbal and visual communication skills, with the judgment to distill complex topics into crisp narratives, decision points and practical actions for a wide range of audiences.

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, data or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience, required; MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred. Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, with comfort using market-intelligence and AI-enabled tools, are expected.