Senior Vice President, Data Leader Manager

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is seeking a Depositary Receipts (DR) and GP&T Commercial Data Lead to join the Data Management team in New York, NY. You will shape and execute the DR and GP&T data agenda, combining governance with a commercial execution mindset to drive value across client, product, and commercial priorities.

You will lead data workstreams, enable AI-ready data products, strengthen end-to-end data risk management, and translate investments into measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of experience or equivalent work experience.
• Strong data strategy and execution experience in financial services.
• Strong governance, data quality, and controls experience.
• Proven executive communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Experience with Agile delivery and prioritization.
• Ability to translate governance and remediation priorities into business enablement and reusable data products.

Responsibilities

• Lead DR and GP&T commercial data strategy and execution.
• Steer data initiatives aligning with enterprise data strategy and Data & AI operating model.
• Translate business priorities into a clear execution roadmap with milestones and outcomes.
• Run governance forums for planning, risk management, and decision-making.
• Develop reusable data capabilities supporting commercial use cases and reporting.
• Own readiness, risk management, and action-tracking across data initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, product, technology, and risk teams to reflect commercial needs in delivery.

Job description

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

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

Job Description

We’re seeking a future team member in the role ofDepositary Receipts (DR) and Global Payments & Trade (GP&T) Commercial Data Leadto join our Data Management team in New York, NY.

This role will shape and execute the DR and GP&T commercial data agenda, combining strong governance and control discipline with a commercial, execution-oriented mandate. The role will lead strategic data workstreams, enable AI-ready and reusable data products, strengthen end-to-end data risk management, and translate data investments into measurable business value across client, product, and commercial priorities.

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

Lead strategy execution across DR and GP&T commercial data priorities

• Execute the DR and GP&T commercial data strategy in alignment with BNY’s enterprise data strategy and evolving Data & AI operating model.
• Steer priority data initiatives that support AI-enabled execution, platform delivery, governance, and risk-managed adoption.
• Translate business and commercial priorities into a clear execution roadmap, including prioritization, dependencies, milestones, and outcomes.
• Run governance and execution forums to oversee planning, escalation, OKRs, risk management, and decision-making.
• Lead process re-engineering efforts that improve data flows, reduce manual intervention, and support strategic goals.

Drive commercial office and business enablement outcomes

• Partner with commercial, product, client, and functional leaders to identify priority data needs that improve client insight, product management, commercialization, and business performance.
• Develop reusable and scalable data capabilities that support commercial use cases, management reporting, operational transparency, and opportunity identification.
• Connect data investments to measurable business outcomes, including adoption, efficiency, stronger controls, improved client outcomes, and value realization.
• Act as a connector across business, data, and technology teams to ensure commercial needs are reflected in strategy and delivery.

Drive data projects, transformation, and AI/data product readiness

• Sponsor or lead strategic data projects and initiatives across DR and GP&T commercial.
• Support enterprise remediation, cross-platform transformation, and modernization efforts where data readiness is critical.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define requirements, clarify ownership, and deliver fit-for-purpose capabilities.
• Advance AI-ready data products and help scale data and AI responsibilities through a phased implementation approach.

Strengthen data foundations, governance, and execution discipline

• Define and prioritize critical data in partnership with governance and business leads, aligned to enterprise data management standards.
• Establish authoritative datasets, clear ownership, definitions, lineage, quality expectations, and remediation paths.
• Improve metadata, lineage, and rationalization practices to increase transparency, reuse, and control effectiveness.
• Own readiness and execution risk across the data user journey, coordinating resolution of dependencies, issues, and adoption barriers.
• Support completion of data maturity and readiness activities and track actions through closure.

Establish a strong control and responsible data use framework

• Partner with Data Quality, Data Privacy, Risk, and Controls leads to strengthen data quality, access, protection, and management practices.
• Support regulatory readiness and evidence control effectiveness across applicable data obligations.
• Enable safe and trusted reuse through strong provenance, permissible use, fit-for-purpose standards, and responsible sharing.
• Represent DR / GP&T commercial in enterprise and business data governance forums and contribute to broader data and AI governance discussions.

Deliver measurable value

• Track progress across governance, remediation, delivery, and business outcomes.
• Establish KPIs that demonstrate adoption, reuse, efficiency gains, control improvement, and commercial impact.
• Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and value delivered to senior stakeholders.

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

• 7-10+ years of experience or equivalent work experience required
• Proven experience leading data strategy from concept through execution with a strong track record of delivery.
• Significant experience in enterprise data programs, ideally within financial services, with a strong focus on supporting commercial priorities in Payments and Depositary Receipts, including sales, client coverage, product performance, and business growth.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, controls, and regulatory expectations.
• Experience translating governance and remediation priorities into business enablement, reusable data products, and AI-readiness outcomes.
• Ability to align data investments to commercial goals, operating efficiency, control outcomes, and platform delivery.
• Proven success managing complex cross-functional programs across business, product, technology, risk, controls, privacy, and data stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and execution skills, including experience with Agile delivery and prioritization.
• Experience with data governance tooling, data profiling, remediation, and quality improvement practices.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership skills, with the ability to influence across senior levels and operate strategically and hands-on.
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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.