Director, Product Manager

Director, Product Manager

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.

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

• This role will be at the forefront of driving customer engagement, optimizing user experiences, and delivering measurable business outcomes. The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of product expertise, business acumen, a user-first mindset, and digital savvy.
• Executes the strategic vision for product owning the overall product roadmap, and alignment of teams around delivery goals. Constantly identify opportunities to enhance product capabilities and client solutions to drive customer satisfaction and business growth. Bring client and market research to help uncover unmet needs and stay current and relevant with competitive offerings, ensure BNY Structure Finance platform is competitive and future proof.
• Continuously grooms & reprioritizes pod backlogs, provide strategic input & decisioning, manage & reduce blockers, & ensure continuous flow of work for pods
• Provides 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 (including remediation efforts) & owns, manages and aggregates view of risk across the product
• Develop pricing and go-to market strategies and materials for the product; track product metrics including financial outcomes
• Brings client and market research to help uncover unmet needs and stay current and relevant with competitive offerings
• Provides 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 models desired cultural changes to all team members

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

Expertise:

• 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, infrastructure provider
• 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.

Individual skills

• 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 & Behaviours

• 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; pushes the team to do the same
• Comfortable escalating issues & blockers for resolution

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 assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $113,000 and $300,000 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.

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

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