Director, Product Manager

About the position

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 are seeking a strategic and innovative Product Manager to lead the development and enhancement of our Corporate Trust Structured Finance digital products team. This role is hybrid (in office 3 days a week) based out of our New York City, NY - Lake Mary, FL - Pittsburgh, PA office.

Responsibilities

  • Drive customer engagement, optimize user experiences, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Execute the strategic vision for product, owning the overall product roadmap and alignment of teams around delivery goals.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance product capabilities and client solutions to drive customer satisfaction and business growth.
  • Conduct client and market research to uncover unmet needs and ensure competitive offerings.
  • Continuously groom and reprioritize pod backlogs, provide strategic input and decisioning, manage and reduce blockers, and ensure continuous flow of work for pods.
  • Provide leadership support to multiple pod-level Product Owners and ensure alignment across multiple pod-level product backlogs.
  • Accountable for all risks originating from services delivered and manage remediation efforts.
  • Develop pricing and go-to market strategies and materials for the product; track product metrics including financial outcomes.
  • Provide day-to-day directions to guide product operations including managing issue escalations and risks.
  • Collaborate with Platform Leadership to share progress, flag challenges, and codify lessons learned.
  • Role model desired cultural changes to all team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, Business, Computer science, or a related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree is desirable.
  • 10+ years of experience in commercial product management, with a recent focus on Capital Markets experience within a Financial Institution, Corp Trust, Fin Tech or similar.
  • Direct knowledge in the Securitization marketplace including the Asset Backed, Mortgage Backed, Conduits and related offerings.
  • Experience with agile methodologies and delivering through cross-functional teams.
  • Digital savvy, with hands-on knowledge of software product development.

Nice-to-haves

  • Effective coach and collaborator.
  • Agility to quickly adapt to customer and stakeholder needs.
  • Leadership and influencing skills.
  • Ability to make hard and fast decisions.
  • Problem solving mindset.
  • Passion for changing status quo and driving out-of-the-box ideas.
  • Non-hierarchical, transparent, trusting, trustworthy.
  • Eagerness to ‘roll up the sleeves' in execution and learning.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation.
  • Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
  • Access to flexible global resources and tools for personal and professional growth.
  • Commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages.
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