Vice President, POM Product Owner

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, POM Product Owner to join the Conduits & Repacks team within BNY’s Corporate Trust / Structured Finance business. This role focuses on modernizing the digital servicing capabilities that support asset-backed commercial paper conduit programs and repack transactions.
This is a hands-on, pod-level Product Owner role. Working with the Structured Finance Digital Product Manager and partners in Operations, Engineering, Architecture, Risk and Controls, you will turn the group’s modernization strategy into prioritized, releasable product outcomes. The goal is to support growth with standardized, scalable workflows and less manual processing while maintaining strong controls and reliable client service.
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

- Own the Conduits & Repacks pod’s product goals, near-term roadmap and prioritized backlog, aligned to the Structured Finance group roadmap; make day-to-day scope and sequencing decisions and escalate cross-group trade-offs.

- Lead discovery with servicing and operations colleagues, clients or client-facing teams, and technology partners to understand the lifecycle of trade intake, issuance, settlement, margin calls, reconciliation, collateral monitoring and client reporting.

- Translate the modernization strategy into incremental releases that standardize trade tickets and workflows, strengthen upfront validation, increase straight-through processing and automate settlement and exception handling.

- Partner with Product Analysts and delivery teams on clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, data needs and exception scenarios; keep the backlog ready for upcoming sprints.

- Work with Engineering, Architecture and enterprise partners on integration and data dependencies, production resilience, legacy-system constraints and the delivery sequence for future capabilities such as intraday reporting.

- Embed operational and regulatory requirements in product decisions, including approval and reconciliation controls, auditability, timely settlement, privacy and the ability to recover from process or system exceptions.

- Lead refinement, sprint and release planning, demos, user acceptance testing and launch readiness; partner with Operations on process changes, training, adoption and business-as-usual handoff.

- Set baselines and track outcomes such as straight-through processing, manual touch points, exception volumes and aging, settlement timeliness, user adoption and platform performance; use evidence to improve priorities and report progress and risks.

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

- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering, computer science or a related field; an advanced degree is welcome.

- Experience in product ownership or product management, business analysis or technology-enabled transformation, together with proven experience in financial services.

- Experience improving complex, high-volume operational processes in a regulated environment, ideally involving securities servicing, transaction processing, payments or settlement.

- Strong product ownership skills: hands-on discovery, outcome-based prioritization, backlog management, actionable stories and acceptance criteria, agile delivery and release decisions; familiarity with Jira or comparable tools.

- Working knowledge of data flows, system integrations and the trade-offs involved in modernizing legacy applications; ability to work effectively with engineers and architects without needing to write code.

- Ability to bring Operations, Product, Engineering and control partners together, communicate clearly, resolve ambiguity and influence delivery without direct authority.

Experience that would set you apart:

- Direct experience in Corporate Trust or Structured Finance, especially asset-backed commercial paper conduits, repack transactions, trustee or paying-agent services.

- Knowledge of trade processing, settlement, margin calls, collateral workflows, reconciliation, client reporting or exception-based servicing.

- A track record of moving manual workflows toward automation and straight-through processing while protecting controls, service quality and operational readiness.

What success looks like:
The pod delivers usable modernization capabilities in stages; operations teams adopt clearer, more automated and exception-led workflows; stakeholders can see delivery progress and product outcomes; and Conduits & Repacks servicing scales without a matching increase in manual effort or control exposure.