Vice President, POM Product Owner

慨正橡扯; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is looking for a Vice President, Product Owner in Pittsburgh or Lake Mary to oversee the product vision and roadmap of the Conventional Trust Deal Administration group. This role requires extensive leadership in product management within the financial services sector, facilitating end-to-end deal lifecycle management and process automation.

Prospective candidates should have at least 8 years of relevant experience and familiarity with workflow orchestration and AI frameworks. Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in product management within financial services.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms and agentic AI.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments with high accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for deal onboarding.
• Define user stories and prioritize the product backlog.
• Serve as liaison between engineering and operations teams.

Skills

Product management

Data delivery

Technology leadership

Leadership skills

Stakeholder management

Client focus and empathy

Tools

Workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Camunda)

Agentic AI frameworks

Job description

Vice President, Product Owner

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Product Owner to join the Conventional Trust Deal Administration group, supporting our deal onboarding and end-to-end deal lifecycle management process and applications.

Location: Pittsburgh, PA or Lake Mary, FL.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap, leveraging agentic AI to transform manual workflows into straight-through processing (STP) and exceptions-based management.
• Define user stories end-to-end, including refinement and ongoing backlog grooming.
• Define, own and prioritize the product backlog, translating future-state operational workflows into clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Define and own the functional capabilities and UI required to support end-to-end exception management, including decisioning logic, escalation criteria, and human-in-the-loop intervention points.
• Conduct structured discovery sessions with operations SMEs to document current-state processes, decision logic, data inputs/outputs, system touchpoints and exception triggers.
• Serve as the primary liaison between engineering teams and operations, translating operational friction points into scalable automation solutions.
• Define data requirements for automation and partner closely with data analysts and engineers to identify and source the data needed to enable accurate and reliable task execution.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in product management, data delivery, or technology leadership within financial services.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Camunda) and agentic AI frameworks.
• Product leader with a demonstrable history of delivering value to business and clients in agile environments.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, client-driven environments with high expectations for data accuracy and performance.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across technical and business teams.
• Possesses a "get-it-done" attitude – ability to get around roadblocks and stay focused on the vision.
• Client focus and empathy – ability to bring everyone together, help them grow and work towards a unified vision, and deliver high-quality products that delight customers and align to their vision.