Data/AI Product Manager (Strategy Lead)

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

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.

The Data Product Manager (Strategy Lead) role is part of a horizontal function supporting all delivery verticals under the newly formed ITGPST Data Strategy and Delivery organization. This role defines data domain-level strategies and establishes consistent end-to-end data flow design patterns, while enabling accurate and timely data-focused requirements scoping by coordinating across business and technology teams to synergize efforts across multiple projects. It aligns strategic objectives and enforces standards through governance—reducing rework, ensuring regulatory and audit compliance, and enabling reusable design patterns. The role drives predictable delivery across a multi-million-dollar portfolio by embedding opportunities for strategic objectives such as data modernization, cloud migration, and AI adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Vision & Roadmaps

• Define data domain/capability strategies, target patterns, and modernization pathways; co‑develop and maintain roadmaps with delivery, incorporating Inspect & Adapt learnings, technical debt, and audit findings

• Portfolio Intake & Discovery – Assess new requests to drive data landscape simplification, modernization, and governance; influence scope and design decisions

• Governance Routines – Lead adoption of target data patterns; co‑own business‑driven governance with DSME; ensure control efficacy and compliance readiness

• Architectural Vision & PI Planning – Lead strategic enablers during PI Planning; enforce alignment with enterprise blueprints and standardized data patterns with Enterprise Architects

• Delivery Verticals Support – Validate Epic acceptance criteria for strategic and governance fit; advise on design trade‑offs, prioritization, and dependency management

• Voice of Customer & Use Case Capture – Serve as the strategy‑layer product manager; capture and prioritize client, regulatory, operational use cases to drive reuse and measurable value

• Data‑as‑Product Advocacy – Promote canonical data contracts, shared services, and interoperability across domains; champion culture change and pattern libraries

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years in data/architecture/product roles, including 5+ years in Payments/Treasury or banking; proven delivery in regulated environments

• Global Payments domain expertise: payment rails, clearing/settlement, cross‑border flows, correspondent banking, treasury/payments operations; ISO 20022, SWIFT MT/MX

• Regulatory & reporting knowledge: PSD2/Open Banking, AML/Sanctions (GFCC), NFRR/FRR reporting controls, audit readiness; data retention/lineage requirements

• Data strategy & architecture: canonical data modeling, shared contracts/APIs, event‑driven and batch patterns, lineage/metadata, reference/master data, data quality controls

• Governance leadership: design‑pattern stewardship, control frameworks, standards enforcement, policy‑to‑implementation traceability

• Enterprise alignment: collaboration with Enterprise Architects; blueprint adherence; pattern libraries; PI Planning of strategic enablers (SAFe or similar)

• Product management: roadmap definition, value hypothesis, backlog curation, Epic/Feature acceptance criteria; use‑case capture and prioritization for reuse and measurable value

• Portfolio intake & discovery: ability to challenge scope for simplification/modernization; dependency and risk management across CDPO verticals

• Communication & stakeholder management: executive‑level storytelling, cross‑functional influence, multi‑location collaboration across EMEA and global teams

Desired Qualifications:

• Modern data practices: data mesh/product‑based operating models; event streaming (e.g., Kafka); interoperability standards

• Cloud & modernization: experience guiding migration to modern platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), data lakes/warehouses, streaming, real‑time payments integration

• Exposure to AI/ML, generative AI, intelligent automation, knowledge management, or advanced analytics use cases

• Certifications: SAFe POPM/Architect, CDMP/DAMA, and cloud certifications (Azure/AWS)

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
• Solution Design
• Vendor Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)Pay and benefits informationPay range$135,000.00 - $217,100.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis 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.BenefitsThis 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.