Vice President, Product Design

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Flexible global resources for personal resilience

Generous paid leaves including volunteer time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Vice President, Product Designer in New York, NY. The role focuses on developing user-centric experiences and mentoring a talented team. You will drive concept development from research to prototyping while contributing to a design system that operates seamlessly with modern technologies.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in product design, especially in complex systems, and can communicate design rationale effectively across diverse teams.

Qualifications

• Strong product design fundamentals: research synthesis, interaction design, systems thinking, visual craft.
• Experience designing complex systems: enterprise software, multi-step workflows, data-heavy interfaces.
• Demonstrated comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Make complexity clear through user-centric design.
• Drive concept development from research to prototyping.
• Own the design of end-to-end experiences.
• Contribute to a design system built for how design works now.
• Communicate design as a point of view, not a deliverable.
• Mentor through example to elevate team standards.

Skills

Product design fundamentals

Interaction design

Systems thinking

Visual craft

Communication of design rationale

Education

5+ years of relevant experience

Job description

Vice President, Product Designer – Job Description

The way products are built has changed. If you know how an .md file becomes experience design, this role may be for you. This role is based in New York, NY.

How We Work

Design, product, and engineering don’t hand off to each other. They co‑create. We work from a shared repo that serves as a single source of truth: outcomes, strategy, personas, prototypes, and even presentations when we need them. Everything lives in one place and informs everything else in real time.

A designer on this team might start the morning synthesizing user research, open a repo, and have a testable concept in front of stakeholders by the afternoon. That’s not aspirational. That’s how the work moves.

How products are created is shifting under our feet, and we are embracing the opportunity and changing quickly. We believe the shifts with AI are enabling us to spend more time on crafting deeply user‑centric experiences with deliberate outcomes. When generation handles execution, designers focus on the problem, the user, and the quality of the experience.

What You’ll Do

• Make complexity clear. Take systems that are genuinely hard: multi‑step workflows, cross‑platform journeys, enterprise‑scale data. Design experiences that make sense to the people who depend on them. Understand the problem at depth before touching anything.
• Drive concept development from day one. Bring ideas from research and outcomes to prototyped form fast. Demonstrate possibilities rather than describing them. Use AI‑assisted tools to close the distance between design intent and working experience.
• Own the design of end‑to‑end experiences. Map journeys across users, teams, and systems. Identify where things break, where friction accumulates, and what needs to be rebuilt versus refined. Operate across the full scope of a platform experience, not just the screens in front of you.
• Contribute to a design system built for how design works now. Our design system is structured as machine‑readable infrastructure, not just a component library. Tokens carry semantic meaning. Patterns encode reasoning about when and why they apply. AI agents consume it directly alongside human developers. Contributing here means adding to the grammar, not just the vocabulary, and understanding why that distinction matters.
• Communicate design as a point of view, not a deliverable. Articulate the rationale behind decisions. Help product managers and engineers understand the tradeoffs. Make design legible to people who don’t speak design, without dumbing it down.
• Mentor through example. Raise the standard of work around you through critique, collaboration, and how you approach problems. Not through title.

Required Qualifications

• Strong product design fundamentals: research synthesis, interaction design, systems thinking, visual craft.
• Experience designing complex systems: enterprise software, multi‑step workflows, data‑heavy interfaces.
• Demonstrated comfort working in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments where the problem isn’t handed to you pre‑formed.
• The ability to communicate design rationale to mixed audiences (product, engineering, business) and hold your perspective under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI‑assisted tools, not just for ideation but for building and prototyping.
• Experience working in shared codebases or repos with cross‑functional teams, or actively moving in that direction.
• A description of a moment when AI changed how you approached a design problem, not just made it faster but made it different.
• Contribution to a design system at the pattern or systems level, not just component execution.

What Will Set You Apart

• Work at the intersection of design and technical implementation, close to the material, not downstream from it.
• Have felt the industry shift happening and leaned toward it.
• Process produces things, not documents.
• Have a deep excitement for and understanding of the opportunity that AI creates for design, even if you haven’t fully arrived there yet, you’re moving fast.

Portfolio

A portfolio is required, but what we most want to see may not look like a traditional design portfolio. The most compelling thing you can share is evidence of how you actually create products: working alongside product managers and engineers in real time, from research to something shippable, in a way that reflects how modern product teams operate. Show us a process, a repo, a prototype you built directly, a decision you influenced in the room. If you’ve worked in a shared codebase or repo with cross‑functional partners, bring that to life. If you’ve used AI tools to get from insight to working experience faster, bring that to life.

Beyond that, we want to see what you’d expect: complex systems thinking, end‑to‑end journey work, evidence of design decisions that improved the experience and why. Figma files, PDFs, personal sites, live products: format doesn’t matter. Show us the work that best reflects how you think and what you shaped.

Typically 5 or more years of experience, or equivalent demonstrated through portfolio and impact.

About Us

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting‑edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what it’s all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

About The Team

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom (link removed) and BNY LinkedIn.

Recent Awards

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

Benefits And Rewards

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. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach 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.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, Females, Individuals with Disabilities, Protected Veterans.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting. Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in company‑sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Additional benefits, including paid time off benefits such as vacation and sick time, are determined by position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an “at‑will” position and the company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.