Platform Design Lead, Senior Vice President, UX Product Design

BNY Mellon; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

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Note: This is a pipeline requisition and does not represent any one particular job opening. By applying to this pipeline requisition, your interest will be reviewed for multiple potential openings based upon your background and disclosed work preference.

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.

Pershing X is a new start-up unit to incubate, engineer, and deliver breakthrough solutions that will transform the advisory market. Pershing X will deliver the industry's leading end-to-end advisory platform, helping financial service firms solve the challenge of managing multiple and disconnected technology tools and data sets for their advisors and fueling our clients' business growth. We are a collaborative and fast-growing team working on exciting and innovative digital product offerings.

We welcome you to apply! When applying to this general posting, our expert BNY Talent Acquisition Team may also review your resume for consideration across other open roles within the company.

We are looking for Senior UX Product Designers to join Pershing X, a new advisory startup within BNY | Pershing.

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

1. The candidate should be an experienced professional with a full understanding of their area of specialization.
2. This role should have experience providing guidance and technical expertise for the most complex user experience activities that include user research and testing, interactive design, and visual design.
3. They will review documentation of research findings presented to product and development teams, as well as new and modified user personas.
4. The candidate will be expected to participate and provide guidance in the creation of concepts, information architecture, user interface designs, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and specifications to meet project schedules.
5. They should be able to synthesize situations and information across multiple factors.
6. As well as seek to build their expertise while applying company policies and procedures in the resolution of a variety of issues.
7. They should be comfortable giving design feedback and building good relationships with people on their immediate team and cross-functional teams.
8. Know their key stakeholders and peers, with the goal of better understanding the connection of their own work.
9. Help organize team process, as well as mentor and train more junior designers.
10. Be a strong communicator that checks for understanding and asks questions to understand others' point of view.

This role leads the implementation of visual styles that support platform branding to increase user effectiveness. Interprets user feedback and insights to improve the user experience. Serves as reviewer of usability activities and artifacts to ensure software applications meet customer expectations for use. Provides UX expertise to the product definition and evaluation process utilizing multiple sources of information (field work, interviews, internet, intranet, market data/literature). Independently performs and leads the creation and updating of user interface and visual design guidelines and standards. Advocates the user experience across the firm and facilitates training for groups outside the UX team. Ensures that the developed/revised product achieves the user's specified goals by establishing user-centered analysis, design, best practices, and standards. Contributes to the achievement of area objectives. Overall, they will be expected to be highly independent, needing little instruction on day-to-day work and general instructions on new assignments.

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

1. Bachelor's degree in psychology, user experience, design, human-computer interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred.
2. 10+ years of experience required.
3. Experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.

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.