Vice President, Senior Product Designer

Based in New York City, The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is seeking a Vice President, Senior Product Designer to lead user centered design for complex, enterprise-scale systems. This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and turning research insights into intuitive product experiences that serve both customers and internal teams.

Location

New York, NY (onsite)

Compensation

USD 68,000 - 203,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Lead with a user first approach, ensuring design decisions address user needs, behaviors, and insights from research to deliver a seamless experience.
• Map end-to-end user journeys across customers, operations, servicing teams, and systems to uncover pain points and moments of opportunity; align teams on a shared vision of user needs.
• Craft complex web interfaces and workflows that are highly functional and visually engaging, developing intuitive layouts, navigation patterns, and interaction models for intricate systems; leverage animation and micro-interactions to guide users.
• Demonstrate mastery of design tools such as Figma and Miro to create high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and mockups that clearly communicate interaction models and UI specifications.
• Contribute to and align with a global design system to ensure visual consistency across interfaces; develop reusable workflow patterns and components for broader team use.
• Translate the challenges of complex systems into clear, usable design solutions that facilitate understanding and interaction.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to turn business goals into practical, user-centered design solutions that respect technical constraints.
• Articulate design concepts and rationale to diverse stakeholders, using storytelling to communicate the product vision and gain alignment.
• Mentor junior designers and foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration within the team.

Requirements

• A portfolio is required to be considered for this position. The portfolio should demonstrate expertise described above and may be provided as a Figma link, PDF, or personal site.
• Typically five or more years of experience, or equivalent expertise demonstrated through portfolio and leadership impact.

Technologies

• Figma
• Miro

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Flexible global resources and tools
• Paid leaves
• Paid volunteer time

Culture and recognitions

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

Our benefits and rewards

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a culture of excellence and a pay-for-performance philosophy. The company provides access to flexible global resources and tools for life’s journey, supports health and resilience, and offers generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, to support employees and their families through moments that matter.