Vice President, POM Product Owner II - BNY Mellon

Note: This is a pipeline requisition and does not represent any one particular job opening. By applying to this pipeline requisition, your interest will be reviewed for multiple potential POM Product Manager openings based upon your background and disclosed work preference.

Bring your ideas. Make history. 
BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital. 

With over 240 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about. 

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Platforms Product Owner to join our Product Management team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA, Lake Mary, FL or New York, NY 

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

• Higher level of experience and expertise in product management. Responsible for strategic product planning, managing multiple product backlogs and mentoring junior Product owners. 
• Product Execution: Able to write specs for minor features and contribute meaningfully to specs for major features. Able to negotiate the implementation of current work, make the right trade-off decisions to launch products in a high quality manner. Knows when to escalate to managers. Works with teams to make recommendations that deliver maximum value to end users as quickly as possible. Can efficiently assess the quality and readiness of a release. 
• Customer Insights: Formulates the right business questions to be asked and knows how to track down data to inform decisions. Can use low fidelity tools to outline a design approach and then work with teams to translate them into higher fidelity representation of the feature. Makes regular contact with users of product and uses 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 include: 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. 
• 3-5 years of product experience preferred.
• 5-10 years in a financial industry preferred.

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

• Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion 
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI)
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score 
• 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
• CDP’s Climate Change ‘A List’

Our Benefits: 

BNY Mellon 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 that can support you and your family through moments that matter. 

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

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team-one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve-and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.

BNY Mellon assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $81,000 and $179,000 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 BNYM 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.