Bank of America Corporation

Product Manager - Business Partner Connections

Bank of America Corporation$135K — $217K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in enterprise network architecture, engineering, product management, or technology leadership in a regulated environment.
  • Deep technical understanding of enterprise network connectivity, including LAN/WAN, routing, and other critical technologies.
  • Proven experience with B2B and external connectivity services in large enterprises.
  • Strong credibility with technical teams, skilled at constructively challenging designs and explaining them in business terms.
  • Expertise in product management disciplines such as roadmap development and backlog prioritization.
  • Capability to engage effectively with various business and technical stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills for conveying complex ideas and updates to executives.

Responsibilities

  • Generate the vision and multi-year roadmap based on customer needs and market trends.
  • Communicate the product vision and roadmap clearly to all stakeholders and teams involved.
  • Manage product budgets by coordinating with finance teams on expenses.
  • Define business capabilities and align them with existing or new products.
  • Ensure product availability through collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Develop comprehensive business cases for introducing new products or enhancing existing ones.
  • Act as the primary authority for the B2B Connectivity product, bridging technical and business domains.

Benefits

  • Industry-leading benefits package available.
  • Access to paid time off for personal and professional needs.
  • Support resources to help employees impact business growth and community development.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

This job is responsible for maximizing the value for one or more products. Key responsibilities include working with stakeholders to understand their needs, and with product owners or specialists to ensure they are aligning on priorities. Job expectations include ensuring delivery of products that meet client expectations, including features, security, availability, resiliency, timelines and costs.

  • Product Managers are experts of the products, business or technology domain, and the industry in which the product competes
  • Define the vision and roadmap for the product(s) based on customer requirements, industry trends, regulations, and the strategic direction for the business or technology domain. Define and drive product selection, RFx, etc.
  • Ensure alignment across product roadmaps to achieve portfolio objectives
  • Define and prioritize features/epics in the program backlog
  • Articulate roadmaps and features to both stakeholders and AE teams
  • Represent product(s) within NS and to external consumers and stakeholders, e.g., GIS, Finance, Audit/Risk, LoBs
  • Oversee the budget(s) for their product(s). Support and collaborate with the Senior Technology Executives, Finance and Economic teams on financials throughout delivery
  • Continuously oversee product inventory, performance, risk and usage metrics, CAPM, error rates, etc. to monitor product health and make product lifecycle recommendations and decisions
  • Accountable for all aspects of the lifecycle, risk and vulnerability of the products


Responsibilities:

  • Generates the vision and roadmap for the program based on customer requirements, industry trends, regulations, and the strategic direction for the business or technology domain
  • Communicates the program vision and roadmap to stakeholders, product owners and the teams
  • Oversees the budget(s) for one or more products by working closely with finance partners on both personnel and non-personnel expenses
  • Provides input into defining business capabilities and aligning them to products or creating new products to support them
  • Ensures product availability by partnering closely with demand and capacity teammates
  • Develops business cases for new products and additional features for existing products
  • Partners with the product owners and the teams to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and subject-matter expertise and understanding of the business and industry trends
  • Own the product vision and roadmap: Define and maintain the multi-year strategy and quarterly execution roadmap for Business Partner Connectivity, balancing business demand, financial market requirements, regulatory obligations, technology modernization, resiliency, risk reduction, and operational health.
  • Serve as the business and technical product authority: Act as the accountable voice of the B2B Connectivity product across Network Services and with line-of-business stakeholders, including Markets and other high-dependency business areas that rely on secure, reliable partner connectivity.
  • Lead the Product Cabinet and product operating model: Chair the B2B Product Cabinet, set product routines, clarify accountabilities, drive decision-making, and ensure Product Architecture, Product Owner, engineering, operations, governance, automation, PMO, and regional partners are aligned to common outcomes.
  • Lead the Product Cabinet and product operating model: Chair the B2B Product Cabinet, set product routines, clarify accountabilities, drive decision-making, and ensure Product Architecture, Product Owner, engineering, operations, governance, automation, PMO, and regional partners are aligned to common outcomes.


Required Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise network architecture, engineering, product management, or technology leadership, with substantial exposure to large-scale, highly regulated environment
  • Deep technical understanding of enterprise network connectivity across LAN/WAN, routing, switching, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, multicast, VXLAN, MACSec, NAT, load balancing, firewall policy, proxy, DNS/DDI, certificates, monitoring, and secure connectivity patterns.
  • Demonstrated experience with B2B, partner, third-party, extranet, DMZ, market connectivity, or external connectivity services in a large enterprise.
  • Strong credibility with architecture and engineering teams, including the ability to challenge designs constructively, understand technical trade-offs, and explain architectural decisions in business terms.
  • Experience leading cross-functional or matrixed teams through complex delivery, risk-remediation, lifecycle, or transformation initiatives.
  • Strong product management discipline, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, epics/features, stakeholder intake, product health metrics, lifecycle planning, and outcome-based governance.
  • Ability to partner effectively with lines of business, risk, security, audit, finance, operations, architecture, engineering, and service delivery stakeholders.
  • Excellent executive communication skills, including written updates, presentations, decision papers, product scorecards, and concise escalation materials.
  • Strong program execution skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholders simultaneously.


Desired Qualifications:
  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, Information Security, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience supporting connectivity for financial markets, trading platforms, financial exchanges, market data providers, clearing/settlement workflows, or other time-sensitive financial services use cases.
  • Prior Product Manager, Product Owner, Product Architect, Technology Executive, Network Architect, or senior Network Engineering leadership experience.
  • Experience with external connectivity control frameworks, data transmission governance, third-party technology risk, entitlement ownership, inventory validation, or audit remediation.
  • Experience managing product financials, investment planning, vendor engagement, RFx/product selection, cost transparency, or product-level economic decisioning.
  • Experience creating multi-year roadmaps and operating model improvements for complex infrastructure products.
  • Experience with Agile delivery practices and tools such as Jira, Kanban, Confluence, Horizon, or comparable platforms.
  • Relevant certifications such as CCNP/CCIE, cloud security or architecture certifications, Azure fundamentals/security certifications, CISSP/CCSP, or equivalent demonstrated capability.
  • Experience with automation, observability, service assurance, CMDB/inventory quality, API integrations, and product dashboards.
  • Experience operating in a global organization with regional delivery stakeholders and high-availability service expectations.
  • Ability to mentor Product Owners, architects, and engineering partners in product thinking, decision framing, roadmap discipline, and stakeholder management.


Skills:
  • Financial Management
  • Influence
  • Solution Delivery Process
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Agile Practices
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Result Orientation
  • Risk Management
  • Business Acumen
  • Business Case Analysis
  • Data Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Product Management


Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540), US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$135,000.00 - $217,100.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

About Bank of America Corporation

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of the corporate and investment banking activities of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch following the acquisition of the latter by the former in January 2009. Bank of America completed the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co on 1 January 2009. Bank of America began rebranding all of its corporate and investment banking activities under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch name in September 2009. In April 2010, Bank of America Merrill Lynch appointed Christian Meissner as head of investment banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In April 2011, Bank of America Merrill Lynch integrated its corporate and investment banking operations into a single division. In October 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch was recognised as the Most Innovative Investment Bank of the Year in The Banker's Investment Banking Awards.

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Learn more about Bank of America Corporation
Size
208,000 employees
Market Cap
$260.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
-1.4%
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