Hybrid Vice President, POM Product Owner

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About the role

  • Vice President, POM Product Owner leading product for BNY Payments Enablement, focusing on sanctions compliance and regulatory adherence while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a POD in the Sanctions Screening Group
  • Manage one of the pods within the Enrichment and Qualification group
  • Own and manage the product backlog for the pod, ensuring alignment with platform OKRs and strategic priorities
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across various Business, Operations, Technology, Compliance, and Client Services to define and refine business problems and expected outcomes
  • Translate complex business needs into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Prioritize backlog items to balance new feature delivery, technical debt, and platform resiliency
  • Lead sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives in partnership with the Scrum Leads and development team
  • Ensure solution designs align with long-term architecture and platform vision
  • Monitor and measure pod’s performance, using data to inform decisions and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or work experience equivalent
  • 10+ years of experience in transaction banking, with at least 5-7 years in a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst role
  • Proven experience working on payment processing.
  • Deep knowledge of global sanctions regimes and compliance frameworks (OFAC, UN, EU, etc)
  • Hands-on experience with Sanctions screening
  • Familiarity with sanctions-screening platforms, rule engines and ancillary software (e.g. Firco, Bridger, Lexus-Nexus, Orbis)
  • Solid understanding of matching logic, fuzzy-matching algorithms, false-positive tuning and data-quality challenges
  • Expertise in regulatory-change management and translating new or amended rules into system requirements
  • Ability to define and interpret key performance metrics (hit-rates, false-positive ratios, throughput)
  • Background in banking/financial-services operations or technology delivery in a regulated environment
  • Experience as a Product Owner in Agile/Scrum environments, with a solid grasp of Agile principles, ceremonies and backlog prioritization/management and sprint execution
  • Ability to write clear and actionable user stories, define acceptance criteria, and manage a product backlog.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills — capable of balancing the needs of operations, compliance, IT, and clients.
  • Proven stakeholder management—working effectively with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Operations, Technology and external vendors
  • Experience collaborating with development teams, testers, and business SMEs to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to work cross-functionally across business and technical teams.
  • Ability to analyze trends and use data to inform product decisions and drive operational efficiency.
  • Comfortable using data to drive prioritization and continuous improvement
  • Proficiency with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Excel, and data visualization tools.
  • Knowledge of LexisNexis Bridger and Fircosoft (or comparable systems) are a plus.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills — able to translate complex payment processes into business and technical requirements.
  • High attention to detail, especially in compliance- and risk-sensitive environments.
  • Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-pressure setting.
  • Comfortable working in a global, cross-functional team and across different time zones.

Benefits

  • highly competitive compensation
  • benefits
  • wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence
  • pay-for-performance philosophy
  • access to flexible global resources and tools
  • focus on health
  • foster personal resilience
  • reach financial goals
  • generous paid leaves
  • including paid volunteer time

Job title

Vice President, POM Product Owner

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridPuneIndia

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