Senior Vice President, Product Design Lead, Platform

About the role

The Senior Vice President, Product Design Lead, Platform role is within the Depository Receipts team at BNY, a leading global financial services company. This role is based in New York, NY.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the design strategy for one of our core platforms.
• Design end-to-end platform experiences, translating complex requirements into intuitive, scalable designs.
• Shape user-centered design at platform scale, grounding decisions in user needs, behaviors, and research insights.
• Balance usability, consistency, and flexibility to create platform experiences that support both expert users and evolving product needs.
• Quickly develop an understanding of new domains, such as depository receipts, by synthesizing information from product, engineering, and business partners, and translate that understanding into clear, user-focused design solutions.
• Map and analyze multi-step, cross-system user journeys involving clients, internal teams, and supporting systems, identifying friction, gaps, and opportunities to improve usability and coherence across the platform.
• Create clear interaction models, information hierarchy, and navigation patterns for complex systems, guiding users and reducing cognitive load with motion and micro-interactions.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders as a design expert, clearly articulating design principles, user impact, and rationale behind design decisions.
• Operate with minimal direction, driving design work from problem framing through execution, proactively identifying design opportunities, risks, and dependencies, and moving work forward in ambiguous environments while maintaining alignment with broader platform goals.
• Contribute to and help extend a global design system, ensuring consistency and reuse across the platform, identifying new patterns, documenting them clearly, and collaborating with other designers to support adoption and scalability.
• Apply systems thinking to connect workflows, data, and interactions across the platform, distilling complexity into coherent experiences while preserving the depth and control required by advanced users.
• Communicate design concepts clearly and confidently to diverse audiences, using visual storytelling to explain how design decisions support usability, consistency, and long-term platform health, and participate in and lead design critiques that raise the quality of work across teams.
• Act as a senior design leader by setting a high bar for craft, rigor, and clarity, providing informal mentorship and feedback to other designers, helping elevate design quality through example, critique, and collaboration rather than formal people management.

Requirements

Typically, a candidate at this level will have 10–12 years of experience designing digital products, including time spent on complex, enterprise, or regulated systems. Prior domain expertise is less important than demonstrated ability to learn new domains and apply strong design principles effectively.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Strong user-centered design at platform scale, ability to learn and navigate complex domains, end-to-end journey thinking, interaction and UI design for complex workflows, design-led collaboration and influence, independence and ownership, contribution to and help extend a global design system, complex systems thinking, communication, critique, and storytelling.

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 your health, fostering your personal resilience, and reaching your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

Pay

The base salary for this position is expected to be between $102,000 and $246,000 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.

Schedule

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.