Senior Vice President, Lead Product Designer--Platform Lead

Senior Vice President, Lead Product Designer (L) -Platform Lead 

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 #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Lead Product Designer (L) -Platform Lead to join our Design Practice team supporting the People Team platform. This role is located in New York, NY – Hybrid.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

• Partner at the leadership level to strategize/develop/implement visual styles that support platform branding to increase user effectiveness. 
• Interpret user feedback and insights to improve the user experience. 
• Serve as reviewer of usability activities and artifacts to ensure software applications meet customer expectations for use. 
• Provide UX expertise to the product definition and evaluation process utilizing multiple sources of information (field work, interviews, internet, intranet, market data/literature). 
• Independently perform and lead the creation and updating of user interface and visual design guidelines and standards. 
• Advocate the user experience across the firm and facilities training for groups outside the UX team. 
• Ensure that the developed/revised product achieves the user's specified goals by establishing user-centered analysis, design, best practices, and standards. 
• Contribute to the achievement of area objectives. 
• Overall, you will be expected to be highly independent, needing little instruction on day-to-day work and general instructions on new assignments. 
   

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

• Experienced design professional with a full understanding of UX and an area of specialization. 
• Experience providing guidance and technical expertise for the most complex user experience activities that include user research and testing, interactive design, and visual design. 
• Review documentation of research findings presented to product and development teams, as well as new and modified user personals. 
• Participate and provide guidance in the creation of concepts, information architecture, user interface designs, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and specifications to meet project schedules. 
• Synthesize situations and information across multiple factors. 
• Seek to build their expertise while applying company policies and procedures in the resolution of a variety of issues. 
• Comfortable giving design feedback. 
• Able to build good relationships with people on their immediate team and cross-functional teams. 
• Know your key stakeholders and peers, with the goal of better understanding the connection of their own work. 
• Help organize team process, as well as mentor and train more junior designers. 
• Strong communicator that checks for understanding and asks questions to understand others’ point of view.  
• Bachelor's degree in psychology, user experience, design, human computer interaction or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred, 
• 10+ years of experience required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus. 

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 pa