Product Design Lead (contract)

About the role

As a Product Design Lead at BNY, you will drive hands-on design execution and strategic direction for complex platform initiatives. This senior UX role blends user-centered design, research, and cross-functional leadership to enhance enterprise applications with a focus on dashboard efficiency, usability, and platform consistency. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to define design needs, develop concepts, and deliver high-quality user experiences aligned with enterprise standards and branding. The role follows a hybrid schedule, requiring 4 days onsite in New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; or Lake Mary, FL.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation of concepts, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, user interface designs, and detailed specifications to support project goals and timelines.
• Independently develop, update, and apply user interface and visual design guidelines and standards, ensuring consistency with enterprise design principles.
• Provide UX expertise throughout product definition and evaluation by leveraging user research, testing, interviews, market insights, and other inputs to improve usability and effectiveness.
• Partner with product, engineering, and leadership teams to shape design strategies, challenge assumptions, align on priorities, and support platform branding and user adoption.
• Help organize design team processes, mentor junior designers, review usability activities and deliverables, and advocate for user experience best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a design professional with deep knowledge of UX and at least one area of specialization.
• 1+ years of experience using AI tools in the design process.
• Strong experience with Figma.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and explain design rationale clearly.
• Ability to work independently while managing ambiguity and multiple concurrent engagements.
• Experience leading complex user experience activities, including user research, usability testing, interaction design, and visual design.
• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, user experience, design, human-computer interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Experience

• Strong user research background with the ability to translate findings into actionable design improvements.
• Experience mentoring junior designers and helping shape team practices.
• Advanced degree.

Why Join Us

Join a design team focused on elevating user experience across enterprise platforms through a blend of strategy, research, and hands-on design leadership. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact application upgrades while partnering with product and engineering teams to shape future-state experiences. It is ideal for a highly independent design leader who thrives in ambiguity, communicates effectively, and enjoys balancing execution with strategic influence.

At BNY, our culture fosters innovation and inclusion. Recent accolades include:

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune, 2025
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Pay

$97.60 – $122.00 USD hourly.

Schedule

Hybrid schedule requiring 4 days onsite per week in New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; or Lake Mary, FL.

Benefits

Optional benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits via Tundra Technical Solutions.

Note: This is a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to Bank of New York (BNY).