Vice President, Product Owner II

BNY Mellon; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global financial services company as a VP, Product Owner II, where your expertise will shape the future of loan products. This dynamic role involves product ownership, strategic planning, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in the Loans Enablement Platform. With a commitment to excellence and a culture that empowers growth, you'll have the opportunity to influence product strategy and enhance user experience. If you're passionate about making a difference in the financial sector and thrive in an agile environment, this position offers the perfect platform for your career advancement.

Benefits

Generous paid leaves

Paid volunteer time

Flexible global resources

Health and wellbeing programs

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product ownership or related fields.
• Strong background in the syndicated loan market or money movement.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for loan products.
• Collaborate with teams to translate business needs into actionable stories.

Skills

Product Ownership

Agile Methodologies

Collaboration Skills

Problem Solving

User Experience Assessment

Wireframing

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Bachelor's Degree in Finance

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of VP, Product Owner II to join our Loans Enablement Platform. This role is located in (3 days in office at) Houston, TX, or Pittsburgh, PA.

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

1. Product Ownership of a loan product, including product strategy, annual roadmaps, and quarterly initiatives.
2. Contributes to the platform’s strategic objectives and key results using product-specific data, metrics, and goals.
3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams in operations and client teams to translate the business needs into epics and stories.
4. Responsible for prioritization of the work based on business value, using estimated new revenue, operational KPI and KRIs, and other metrics.
5. Provide day-to-day direction to guide the pod for clarification of story details and acceptance criteria.
6. Knows when to escalate to managers. Able to identify and triage issues with specific features but understand how multiple features are interrelated and catch more complex problems.
7. Effectively defines proper measurement and instrumentation for a product to analyze results post-release/launch.
8. Assesses the quality of existing UX to make recommendations on how to improve user experience.
9. Ability to create wireframes independently and in coordination with the design team.
10. Signoff on stories through active participation in validation and Sprint Reviews.
11. Facilitates handoff of stories requiring operational readiness, training, or adoption, continuing to track metrics to drive future stories.
12. Fosters agile ways of working, DevOps, and automated testing.

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

1. 6+ years of related experience required; experience in the syndicated loan market, private wealth loans, administrative agent, or other loan-type asset classes, or money movement, reconciliations, trading.
2. Systems implementation experience.
3. Experience determining the MVP for initial go live.
4. Ability to break down highly complex loan initiatives into small epics and stories that deliver incremental business value.
5. Effective collaboration skills. Ability to influence, make hard decisions, and problem solve.
6. Passion for changing the status quo, driving out of the box thinking. Ability to adapt and lead through change.
7. Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, computer science engineering or related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
8. 6+ years of product experience and agile ways of working.

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

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 base salary for this position is expected to be between $88,000 and $162,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Job Info

• Job Identification 62451
• Job Category POM Product Owner
• Posting Date 12/16/2024, 07:33 PM
• Locations 500 Ross Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15262, US 601 Travis Street, Houston, TX, 77002, US