BNY is looking for a Product Design Platform Lead to strategize, develop, and implement visual styles that support platform branding to increase user effectiveness, interpret user feedback to improve user experience, and ensure software applications meet customer expectations.
Requirements
- Full understanding of UX and an area of specialization.
- Experience providing guidance and technical expertise for user research and testing, interactive design, and visual design.
- Experience reviewing documentation of research findings and user personas.
- Experience in the creation of concepts, information architecture, user interface designs, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and specifications.
- Ability to synthesize situations and information across multiple factors.
- Experience giving design feedback.
- Experience building good relationships with people on their immediate team and cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Providing guidance and technical expertise for the most complex user experience activities that include user research and testing, interactive design, and visual design.
- Reviewing documentation of research findings presented to product and development teams, as well as new and modified user personals.
- Participating and providing guidance in the creation of concepts, information architecture, user interface designs, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and specifications to meet project schedules.
- Synthesizing situations and information across multiple factors.
- Reviewing usability activities and artifacts to ensure software applications meet customer expectations for use.
- Providing UX expertise to the product definition and evaluation process utilizing multiple sources of information (field work, interviews, internet, intranet, market data/literature).
- Independently performing and leading the creation and updating of user interface and visual design guidelines and standards.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in psychology, user experience, design, human computer interaction or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred.
- 10-12 years of experience required.
- Experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
- Ability to build good relationships with people on their immediate team and cross-functional teams.
- Know their key stakeholders and peers, with the goal of better understanding the connection of their own work.
- Help organize team process, as well as mentor and train more junior designers.
- Strong communicator that checks for understanding and asks questions to understand others’ point of view.
- Advocates the user experience across the firm and facilities training for groups outside the UX team.
- Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.
- Highly independent, needing little instruction on day-to-day work and general instructions on new assignments.
