Senior Vice President, Product Design

About the role

The Senior Vice President, Product Designer role is based in New York, NY. This role is responsible for shaping experiences that influence millions of users worldwide, simplifying complexity, and building trust in global finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead with a user-first approach, ensuring all design choices address user needs, behaviors, and insights from research.
• Drive a seamless and intuitive product experience by deeply understanding our users.
• Map and analyze end-to-end user journeys across customers, operations, servicing teams and systems to identify pain points, key moments, and opportunities for improvement.
• Create complex web interfaces and workflows, ensuring products are both highly functional and visually engaging.
• Develop intuitive layouts, navigation patterns, and interaction models for intricate systems.
• Use animation and micro-interactions to guide users, making complex tasks more approachable and enhancing the overall product experience.
• Possess advanced skills in tools such as Figma and Miro, to create high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and mockups that clearly communicate interaction models and UI specifications.
• Contribute to a global design system that ensures visual consistency across interfaces.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to align design efforts with business goals, transforming complex requirements into clear, functional design solutions that respect technical constraints.
• Articulate design concepts and rationale to diverse stakeholders, making complex ideas accessible. Use storytelling to engage others in the product vision, fostering alignment and enthusiasm.
• Mentor and lead junior designers, providing constructive feedback, and elevating team standards.

Requirements

A portfolio is required to be considered for this position. It should demonstrate strong interaction design, systems thinking, and experience working in complex or ambiguous problem spaces. A Figma link with view access is acceptable.

Experience typically includes 10–12 years of experience designing digital products, including time spent on complex, enterprise, or regulated systems.

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate will bring expertise in craft user-centered design, journey mapping, interaction and UI design, proficiency in design tools, systems thinking, and complex systems knowledge.

Skills

Strong communication and storytelling skills, cross-functional collaboration, and mentorship and leadership abilities are essential.

Benefits

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey, including focus on health, personal resilience, and financial goals.

The base salary for this position is expected to be between $102,000 and $228,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.