BNY is seeking a UX/Design subject matter expert to lead a small team to solve complex product design challenges for Accelerator teams, partnering with areas of the bank that have not historically worked with Design.
Requirements
- Experience across user research and testing, interaction design, and visual design.
- Expertise in at least one of user research and testing, interaction design, and visual design.
- Provides UX expertise to the product definition and evaluation process utilizing multiple sources of information (field work, interviews, internet, intranet, market data/literature).
- Acts as principal consult and leads the creation and updating of user interface and visual design guidelines and standards.
- Ensures that the developed/revised product achieves the user's specified goals by establishing user-centered analysis, design, best practices, and standards.
- Lead range of complex projects that dictate team success, with internal and cross-functional outcomes that requires in-depth analysis and evaluation of variable factors.
- 12+ years of experience required
Responsibilities
- Actively fine-tune expertise in the field and regularly use professional concepts to resolve complex issues facing the team, and occasionally cross functional partners.
- Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of others.
- Comprehensive consultation to management and staff related to user research, usability testing, surveys, interviews, work studies, and heuristic evaluations.
- Reviews documentation of research findings presented to product and development teams.
- Defines and reviews new and modified user personas.
- Participates and provides guidance in the creation of concepts, information architecture, user interface designs, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and specifications to meet project schedules.
- Leads the implementation of visual styles that support platform branding to increase user effectiveness.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in psychology, user experience, design, human computer interaction or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required
- Advanced degree preferred
- Experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
- Builds strong relationships with people on their immediate team and across the company.
- Should know key stakeholders and peers to understand connection of their own work.
- Creates formal networks with key decision makers and cross-functional partners.
- Advocates for user-centered design and the value of standardized design systems across the firm and facilities training for groups outside the UX team.
