Vice President, Payments Product Owner II - BNY Mellon

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 Vice President,  Product Owner to join our Treasury Services team. This role is located in New York, NY – HYBRID

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
• 5-10 years in a financial industry, along with experience in Treasury Services Payments Products (Payments, RTP, Card Services, Prepaid Cards, Digital Wallets, etc.,)

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 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 $150,000 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 BNY 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.