Vice President, Liquidity Solutions Platform Product Owner

London, England, United Kingdom

12/16/2024

Job Description

Vice President, Platform Product Owner

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 is all about.

We are looking for a product owner for our newly built enterprise and client platforms. This role will be based in: London. The ideal candidate will have significant financial services experience within the banking industry, with a focus on one or more of the following disciplines:

• Data Product - Expertise in data and analytics
• Digital Product - Expertise in digital platforms (web, mobile, etc)
• Technical Product – Expertise in technical platforms
• Financial Product – Expertise in investment banking, lending, payments, etc
• Experience/Service – Expertise in client journeys, channels, services
  
  

You Will Have An Impact In 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.
• Owning user stories, refinement process and Stakeholder Management (ongoing collaboration and updates)
• Writing specs for minor features and contribute meaningfully to specs for major features.
• 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:

• Possesses curiosity to ask the hard questions, explores new ideas, and continuously learns and researches to meet goals.
• Strong communicator & Influencer
• Possesses a “get-it-done” attitude – ability to get around roadblocks and stay focused on the vision.
• Organized, resourceful, and able to prioritize tasks.
• Has an interest in constantly learning new tools and technologies and a passion to share your knowledge with the team.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Bachelor's degree in business management or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• Several years product and financial services experience is required
  
  

Product Owner Specific Responsibilities

The role will work in collaboration with Sales/Relationship Management across LOBs, Service Delivery, Regulatory teams, Product/IT Risk, Compliance, Legal, etc. as part of new product development, enhancement, delivery, strategy and planning. The role has a client-focused, strategic approach to develop the business case for firmwide offerings in the marketplace through in-depth analyses on client segments, competitive landscape and industry environment.

The product manager demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of assigned products, the marketplace and client needs to drive product growth/development and maximize profitability across varying stages of their life cycle.

The product manager performs ad-hoc competitive analysis, market research, and regulatory research. Performs technical training, demonstration and develops user guides for clients while also preparing sales materials and training BNY professionals.

Day-to-day Activities Include

• Maintain regular dialogue with Money Market Fund providers
• Effectively communicate market and product updates to the wider team and functional partners
• Manage and contribute to liquidity product marketing and training documentation
• Understand market requirements and contribute to the development strategy for Liquidity Solutions
• Support Sales and Client Service and participate in client meetings to provide SME support
• Work closely with functional partners in Legal, Risk and Compliance to ensure regulations are fully understood and acted upon
  
  

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