Senior Vice President, Product Owner

Senior Vice President, Product Owner

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.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Product Owner to join our Enterprise Transformation Organization team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

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

• Develop and execute a product roadmap that aligns with business objectives, prioritizes initiatives, goal-setting, and creates the evaluation criteria to ensure successful delivery.
• Understand the stakeholder's needs and objectives, able to introduce new ways of working and soliciting feedback.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (e.g. Engineering, Business groups, Finance, HR, Risk) to define, transform and optimize processes using digital capabilities.
• Drive product innovation by keeping up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.
• Work closely with platform leaders to establish each Group's business value and support messaging, communication and customer outreach as necessary.
• Define product metrics, measure performance, and use data to inform product decisions.
• Translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team; maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team.
• Lead a Pod team in a Product Owner capacity and own end-to-end delivery on pod outcomes.
  
  

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

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, typically Computer Science, or equivalent work experience required.
• Proven experience as a product manager (7+ years) delivering large scale products. This role requires deep product ownership expertise, excellent leadership and influencing skills and strong business judgement.
• 5+ years of experience collaborating with senior leaders to set strategy, define the product, and make tough judgements between time to market and features.
• Passionate about problem solving and bringing efficiencies to existing and new operating models.
• Possess curiosity to ask the hard questions, explore new ideas, and continuously learn and research to drive adoption of new innovative capabilities.
• Demonstrable experience in mapping business processes and designing solutions with efficient user journeys.
• Experienced in Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Using subject matter expertise, experience and thought leadership to influence and direct the team, key stakeholders, and senior leaders.
• Strong communicator & influencer; ability to communicate ideas regardless of the audience, and ability to rally associates to your vision.
• Possess a "get-it-done" attitude - ability to get around roadblocks and stay focused on the vision. Organized, resourceful, and able to prioritize tasks.
• Customer 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.

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Here's a few of our recent awards:

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
• "Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

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.