Senior Design Lead - Multiple Needs (VP to Director)

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world's financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We're seeking future team members for the role of Senior Design Lead (VP to Director) to join our Design Practice in service of newly built client and enterprise platforms. This role can be based out of our NYC, NY, Lake Mary, FL, or Pittsburgh, PA offices - Hybrid.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• Set the Product design standards and ensures solutions are easy to use and have optimal user experience in line with overall business vision
• Help teams define and shape the experience strategy, facilitating work sessions with stakeholders and users to define key design goals and requirements
• Guide designers on design strategy related to research insights, execution, continuous integration, and automated deployment
• Mentor and coach the design teams, specifically with new ways of working and mapping strategy to execution
• Identify and remove team impediments
• Work with Executive Product Manager and Product Owners to align the roadmap to vision and continuous insights to ensure voice of the customer is heard
• Constantly look for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid to challenge the status quo
• Synthesize customer insights, research, and journeys by each team at the journey level

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

Expertise

• Ability to direct clear and creative artifacts
• Seasoned design expertise with deep insight into newest methods, trends, and design operations
• Drives design outcomes in an Agile environment
• Can make design decisions at a team and product level
• Experience working on projects that span multiple organizations and business units

Individual skills

• Strong communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex product decisions while advocating the voice of the customer
• Active coach and mentor

Mindset & Behaviors

• High-energy and passionate outlook, with an ability to influence and inspire those around them
• Exhibits strong customer empathy
• Hands-on problem solver
• Promotes free thought, collaboration, transparency - is energized by ideas from others in team

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here's a few of our awards:

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• "Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our 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 Mellon assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $150,000 and $240,000 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 BNYM 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.
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.