Vice President, Product Owner

Vice President, Loans Enablement 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 welcome you to apply When applying to this general posting, our expert BNY Talent Acquisition Team may also review your resume for consideration across other open roles within the company.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Product Owner to join our team. This role is located in Manchester – Hybrid.

You’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Product Ownership of a loan product, including product strategy, annual roadmaps, and quarterly initiatives.
• Contributes to the platform’s strategic objectives and key results through the use of product-specific data, metrics, and goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in operations and client teams to translate the business needs into epics and stories.
• Responsible for prioritization of the work based on business value, using estimated new revenue, operational KPI and KRIs, and other metrics.
• Provide day-to-day direction to guide the pod for clarification of story details and acceptance criteria.
• 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.
• Effectively defines proper measurement and instrumentation for a product to analyze results post-release/launch.
• Assesses the quality of existing UX to make recommendations on how to improve user experience.
• Ability to create wireframes independently and in coordination with the design team.
• Signoff on stories through active participation in validation and Sprint Reviews.
• Facilitates handoff of stories requiring operational readiness, training, or adoption, continuing to track metrics to drive future stories.
• Fosters agile ways of working, DevOps, and automated testing.

To be successful, we’re seeking interest in the following areas:

• 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.
• Ability to break down highly complex loan initiatives into small epics and stories that deliver incremental business value.
• Effective collaboration skills. Ability to influence, make hard decisions, and problem solve.
• Passion for changing the status quo, driving out of the box thinking. Ability to adapt and lead through change.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, computer science engineering or related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 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.
• 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.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

This is a talent pipeline posting.