Chief Product Design & Experience Lead

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation and sick time

401(k) plan

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

BNY seeks a Senior Vice President of Product Design to shape the experience vision and execution for a broad product area. You will lead end‑to‑end design, collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders, and elevate craft with a builder and owner mindset across agile teams.

You will drive patterns, reusable approaches, and scalable solutions, while ensuring alignment with business priorities and platform opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, user experience, design, human–computer interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• 10–12 years of related experience required.
• Demonstrated experience leading design for complex products, platforms, or workflows with meaningful impact on team and business outcomes.
• Strong experience partnering with product and engineering to deliver high‑quality digital experiences.
• Proven ability to operate as a highly independent design leader in environments with limited design support or infrastructure.
• Experience working in modern product development environments that use Git, repositories, and evolving design‑to‑engineering workflows is strongly preferred.
• Experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
• Demonstrated AI design fluency and experience designing or contributing to AI‑enabled product experiences is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design strategy and vision for a broad product area or complex feature set, connecting user needs, business priorities, technical constraints, and platform opportunities.
• Lead end‑to‑end design work across discovery, concept development, prototyping, validation, and delivery.
• Serve as the primary design leader within the team, independently setting direction, creating structure, and establishing a high standard for design quality and execution.
• Elevate design craft through strong visual, interaction, and product design judgment, bringing rigor, polish, consistency, and clarity to the user experience.
• Demonstrate a builder mindset by creating scalable patterns, reusable approaches, and practical ways of working that improve product quality, speed, and consistency.
• Demonstrate an owner mindset by proactively identifying opportunities and risks, aligning stakeholders, driving decisions, and ensuring follow‑through from concept to shipped outcome.
• Lead cross‑functional workshops, design reviews, and working sessions to build alignment and move teams from ambiguity to clarity.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and key stakeholders to define priorities, shape roadmaps, and deliver cohesive experiences.
• Define design scope, milestones, priorities, and success measures for initiatives within their area, and contribute to effective planning and execution within agile delivery environments.
• Create high‑quality design artifacts and prototypes that support alignment, decision‑making, validation, and implementation.

Skills

Design leadership

Cross-functional leadership

AI design fluency

Systems thinking

Product strategy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in psychology, UX, design, HCI, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Git

Code repositories

Job description

BNY seeks a Senior Vice President of Product Design to shape the experience vision and execution for a broad product area. You will lead end‑to‑end design, collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders, and elevate craft with a builder and owner mindset across agile teams.

You will drive patterns, reusable approaches, and scalable solutions, while ensuring alignment with business priorities and platform opportunities.