Overview
Vice President, Platform Product Owner
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 Senior Vice President, Product Owner to join our Conventional Debt team. This role is located in London, UK.

Position Summary:
Higher level of experience and expertise in product management. Responsible for strategic product planning, managing multiple product backlogs and mentoring junior Product owners.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: Product Execution:
Able to write specs for major features and contribute meaningfully to cross functional specs for key features
Able to negotiate the implementation of current work, make the right trade-off decisions to launch product in a high-quality manner. Know when to escalate to manager. Work with team to make recommendations that deliver maximum value to the end users as quickly as possible.
Can efficiently assess the quality and readiness of a release

Customer Insights:
Formulate the right business questions to be asked and how to track down data to inform decisions
Can use low fidelity tools to outline a design approach and then work with your team to translate into higher fidelity representation of the feature
Regular contact with users of product and use multiple sources to prioritize roadmap decisions

Product Strategy:
Understand business outcomes and how product decisions impact tradeoffs
Responsible for crafting a near-term product roadmap (in partnership with manager) and can communicate to junior team members.

Primary Responsibilities:
Full ownership of the product backlog and near-term roadmap ensuring that it is properly refined, prioritized and groomed.
Agile Ceremony Ownership across POD and includes tracking velocity and identifying efficiencies for teams
Ownership of user stories, refinement process and Stakeholder Management (ongoing collaboration and updates)
Ownership of technical design decisions, performs product performance monitoring, track and analyze key product metrics

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
Bachelor’s degree in business management or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required
Several years product and financial services experience is required

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
Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN – 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.

Employer Description:
For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world’s financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It’s the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.