Vice President POM Product Owner

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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 is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Product Owner to join our Wealth Services Platform team. We especially welcome Product professionals who bring deep expertise in investor, investment, or wealth management products and platforms, and who are passionate about shaping the future of financial services. This role is located in Jersey City, NJ or New York, NY.

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

• Defining and prioritizing product backlog, collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, and working closely with development team to ensure the successful delivery of the product.
• Managing the product backlog and near-term roadmap ensuring that it is properly refined, prioritized and groomed.
• Fostering cross-functional collaboration and ensuring delivery of high-impact solutions aligned with business objectives and client needs.
• Owning user stories, refinement process and Stakeholder Management (ongoing collaboration and updates).
• Writing and contributing to specifications for features, using best practices.
• Negotiating the implementation of current work, make the right trade-off decisions to launch products in a high-quality manner. Escalating to management as necessary.
• Identifying and triaging issues with specific features, whilst understanding how multiple features are interrelated and catch more complex problems.
• Defining proper measurement and instrumentation for a product to analyze results post-release/launch.
• Partnering with manager to make recommendations on the right next steps for the feature.
• Assessing the quality of existing UX to make recommendations on how to improve user experience.
  
  

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 3+ years of product experience.
• 3+ years of financial services industry experience.
• Experience with managed accounts, portfolio construction, and/or portfolio management required.
• Experience within a B2B wealth management technology firm, broker dealer, or registered investment advisor (RIA) strongly preferred.
• High degree of proficiency in OKR, Design Thinking, Event Storming, prototyping, iterative development, Scrum, and Agile product development.
• Strength in data-driven decision making, prioritization frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration (e.g., Engineering, UX, Operations).
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Agile) are highly valued.
• Passion for changing status quo and driving out-of-the-box ideas.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Experience with agile methodologies, product management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence), and data visualization platforms.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement.
• Possesses a “get-it-done” attitude – ability to get around roadblocks and stay focused on the vision.
• Organized, resourceful, and able to prioritize tasks.
• Interested in constantly learning new tools and technologies and a passion to share your knowledge with the team.
  
  

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself—check out the latest BNY news at:

• BNY Newsroom
• BNY LinkedIn
  
  

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 assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $83,000 and $185,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short- and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

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

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.

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