Senior Product Design Jobs in New York
Senior Product Design jobs in New York are among the most active in the country, concentrated in technology, financial services, media, and consumer goods companies that maintain large product teams across the city. Most hiring is clustered in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, where companies like Google, Meta, and JPMorgan Chase run established design organizations. The most sought-after specialties include systems design, design leadership, and cross-functional product strategy at the senior-to-principal level. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.
Description
The Senior Lead Capability Design Architect is a senior technical leader and domain architecture lead responsible for defining, governing, and executing the technical blueprints for a designated business capability L2 domain and sub-domains. Operating as a Senior Individual Contributor and technical domain lead, this role bridges long-term capability vision with high-quality technical execution.
Embedded within ELC's Product Operating Model, the Senior Lead CDA works alongside Product Managers, Process Technology Leads, and business stakeholders to turn functional requirements into modular, scalable technical designs. The role strictly enforces Fit to Standard and Clean Core principles, ensuring core transaction systems remain unpolluted while driving side-by-side cloud extensions via standard APIs. The Senior Lead CDA manages technical division-of-labor boundaries with Enterprise Business Services (EBS) partners, auditing vendor technical deliverables to safeguard internal IP. Additionally, this leader drives GenAI adoption across daily architectural workflows, actively presents and leads design reviews in peer design, strategy and architecture reviews, and serves as a formal technical mentor to lower-grade architects and other team members on the Enterprise Product Design Engineering team. Coaching through design reviews, architecture standards and technical best practices.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
Capability Strategy & Modular Blueprinting (35%)
- Define, maintain, and execute the 3-year technical capability vision and architectural roadmap for the assigned business capability L2 domain and the associated sub-domains. Translate business capability objectives into modular technical blueprints that guide product squad execution.
- Partner with Domain Directors, Product Managers, and Process Technology Leads (PTLs) to align technical designs with business roadmaps, maintaining a clear separation between business needs and technical realization.
- Track and model Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across domain platforms. Identify redundant applications, outdated interfaces, and latent technical debt, authoring architectural business cases for platform modernization.
- Lead domain-level Value Stream Mapping (VSM) exercises to identify data latency, process bottlenecks, and integration friction, designing high-speed, automated technical integrations to optimize operational flow.
Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)
Domain Architecture Ownership & Fit to Standard Governance (30%)
- Maintain and govern the accurate inventory of all technology products, custom components, and active integrations within the domain capability boundary, ensuring complete software lifecycle tracking.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for the domain, translating complex functional workflows into detailed architectural patterns, data schemas, and platform configuration parameters.
- Guard the standard to FIT ERP engine against custom configurations by requiring all unique business logic to be built via side-by-side cloud extensions and clean APIs.
- Monitor vendor software roadmaps, cloud technology advancements, and industry best practices within the domain, recommending timely technical upgrades to keep ELC's platforms competitive.
- Ensure 100% of critical domain L3 process maps, system interfaces, and configuration rules are continuously updated in living shared documentation tools (Confluence, Signavio). Ensure documentation is reusable and maintained.
Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)
Product Alignment & Design Lifecycle Governance (20%)
- Partner with Product Managers and engineering squads to ensure daily user stories, sprint backlogs, and feature implementations conform to long-term capability blueprints and architecture standards.
- Formally audit technical solution designs and estimates provided by EBS partners and external system integrators, preventing scope creep and ensuring adherence to ELC architectural standards.
- Present capability domain architectural designs at Architecture Review Boards, obtaining formal design approvals and resolving cross-domain integration dependencies.
- Implement platform telemetry metrics to monitor post-deployment system performance, interface reliability, and quality metrics, ensuring solutions deliver intended business value.
AI-Augmented Architecture & Team Mentorship (15%)
- Identify and implement practical Generative AI and automation use cases within the domain, embedding intelligent capabilities into business workflows and technical architecture.
- Leverage ChatGPT Enterprise and AI tools to streamline the drafting of technical specifications, data dictionaries, and API contracts, reducing manual documentation effort.
- Serve as a formal mentor to other architects and product managers. Provide continuous technical coaching, review design artifacts, and support career progression.
- Actively present complex domain capability designs in peer design, strategy and architecture review forums. Adopt assigned personas to pressure-test peer architectures and drive collaborative design improvements.
Qualifications
- Advanced capability to model end-to-end domain technical architectures using TOGAF or SAP EA frameworks, defining robust data flows and interface specifications across complex corporate capabilities.
- Deep technical proficiency in designing side-by-side extensions (SAP BTP, cloud microservices), defining REST/GraphQL API contracts, and decoupling legacy middleware implementations.
- Skilled in using ChatGPT Enterprise and AI development tools to accelerate technical specification drafting, analyze legacy configuration dependencies, and maintain living repositories.
- Proven ability to review, audit, and benchmark system integrator technical designs, SOW proposals, and code artifacts,
- Proficiency in applying Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and APQC modeling to optimize business process workflows and translate operational needs into modern technical architecture.
Qualifications (Continued)
- Lead the architecture, design, and enhancement of SAP FICO solutions with a primary focus on Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Product Costing.
- Provides architecture leadership and governance for Product Costing and Profitability capabilities, ensuring scalable, integrated, and standardized solutions across CO-PA, Product Costing, costing variants, transfer control, cost sheets, additive costing, costing without quantity structure, Material Ledger, transfer pricing, and intercompany/cross-border processes.
- Define scalable and sustainable SAP solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards and global business requirements.
- Provide architectural leadership on complex Finance and Supply Chain integration initiatives.
- Drive solution design decisions while balancing standard SAP functionality, business requirements, and long-term maintainability.
- Design and support Profitability Analysis (COPA) solutions
- Lead Product Costing design and configuration, including Costing variants, Transfer control, Cost sheets, Additive costing, Costing without quantity structure, Material Ledger
- Support transfer pricing models and complex intercompany/cross-border business processes.
- Defines and governs the end-to-end Finance Capability Architecture, ensuring seamless integration and architectural consistency across Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Demand-to-Build (D2B), and Book-to-Report (B2R) business
Qualifications (Continued)
- Lead workshops to gather business requirements and conduct Fit/Gap analysis for global and regional deployments.
- Support global SAP implementations, enhancement releases, and business transformation initiatives.
- Partner with regional and global stakeholders to standardize processes while addressing local business requirements.
- Support testing activities
- Provide architectural oversight for Application Management Services (AMS), enhancements, break-fix activities, and production support.
- Collaborate with development teams to define and review functional specifications, custom enhancements, interfaces, and integrations.
- Provide architecture governance by working closely with ABAP development teams across design, build, testing, and deployment phases to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards and technical best practices.
- Ensure adherence to Solution Architecture and Center of Excellence (CoE) standards and methodologies. ·
- Minimum Education Level: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum Years of Experience: 7+
Pay Range:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $122,900.00 to $202,500.00. Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program as well as participation in the share incentive plan. In addition,
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com.
Michigan Applicants: Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.
Philadelphia Applicants: Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law
Rhode Island Applicants: The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.
Description
The Senior Lead Capability Design Architect is a senior technical leader and domain architecture lead responsible for defining, governing, and executing the technical blueprints for a designated business capability L2 domain and sub-domains. Operating as a Senior Individual Contributor and technical domain lead, this role bridges long-term capability vision with high-quality technical execution.
Embedded within ELC's Product Operating Model, the Senior Lead CDA works alongside Product Managers, Process Technology Leads, and business stakeholders to turn functional requirements into modular, scalable technical designs. The role strictly enforces Fit to Standard and Clean Core principles, ensuring core transaction systems remain unpolluted while driving side-by-side cloud extensions via standard APIs. The Senior Lead CDA manages technical division-of-labor boundaries with Enterprise Business Services (EBS) partners, auditing vendor technical deliverables to safeguard internal IP. Additionally, this leader drives GenAI adoption across daily architectural workflows, actively presents and leads design reviews in peer design, strategy and architecture reviews, and serves as a formal technical mentor to lower-grade architects and other team members on the Enterprise Product Design Engineering team. Coaching through design reviews, architecture standards and technical best practices.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
Capability Strategy & Modular Blueprinting (35%)
- Define, maintain, and execute the 3-year technical capability vision and architectural roadmap for the assigned business capability L2 domain and the associated sub-domains. Translate business capability objectives into modular technical blueprints that guide product squad execution.
- Partner with Domain Directors, Product Managers, and Process Technology Leads (PTLs) to align technical designs with business roadmaps, maintaining a clear separation between business needs and technical realization.
- Track and model Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across domain platforms. Identify redundant applications, outdated interfaces, and latent technical debt, authoring architectural business cases for platform modernization.
- Lead domain-level Value Stream Mapping (VSM) exercises to identify data latency, process bottlenecks, and integration friction, designing high-speed, automated technical integrations to optimize operational flow.
Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)
Domain Architecture Ownership & Fit to Standard Governance (30%)
- Maintain and govern the accurate inventory of all technology products, custom components, and active integrations within the domain capability boundary, ensuring complete software lifecycle tracking.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for the domain, translating complex functional workflows into detailed architectural patterns, data schemas, and platform configuration parameters.
- Guard the standard to FIT ERP engine against custom configurations by requiring all unique business logic to be built via side-by-side cloud extensions and clean APIs.
- Monitor vendor software roadmaps, cloud technology advancements, and industry best practices within the domain, recommending timely technical upgrades to keep ELC's platforms competitive.
- Ensure 100% of critical domain L3 process maps, system interfaces, and configuration rules are continuously updated in living shared documentation tools (Confluence, Signavio). Ensure documentation is reusable and maintained.
Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)
Product Alignment & Design Lifecycle Governance (20%)
- Partner with Product Managers and engineering squads to ensure daily user stories, sprint backlogs, and feature implementations conform to long-term capability blueprints and architecture standards.
- Formally audit technical solution designs and estimates provided by EBS partners and external system integrators, preventing scope creep and ensuring adherence to ELC architectural standards.
- Present capability domain architectural designs at Architecture Review Boards, obtaining formal design approvals and resolving cross-domain integration dependencies.
- Implement platform telemetry metrics to monitor post-deployment system performance, interface reliability, and quality metrics, ensuring solutions deliver intended business value.
AI-Augmented Architecture & Team Mentorship (15%)
- Identify and implement practical Generative AI and automation use cases within the domain, embedding intelligent capabilities into business workflows and technical architecture.
- Leverage ChatGPT Enterprise and AI tools to streamline the drafting of technical specifications, data dictionaries, and API contracts, reducing manual documentation effort.
- Serve as a formal mentor to other architects and product managers. Provide continuous technical coaching, review design artifacts, and support career progression.
- Actively present complex domain capability designs in peer design, strategy and architecture review forums. Adopt assigned personas to pressure-test peer architectures and drive collaborative design improvements.
Qualifications
- Advanced capability to model end-to-end domain technical architectures using TOGAF or SAP EA frameworks, defining robust data flows and interface specifications across complex corporate capabilities.
- Deep technical proficiency in designing side-by-side extensions (SAP BTP, cloud microservices), defining REST/GraphQL API contracts, and decoupling legacy middleware implementations.
- Skilled in using ChatGPT Enterprise and AI development tools to accelerate technical specification drafting, analyze legacy configuration dependencies, and maintain living repositories.
- Proven ability to review, audit, and benchmark system integrator technical designs, SOW proposals, and code artifacts,
- Proficiency in applying Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and APQC modeling to optimize business process workflows and translate operational needs into modern technical architecture.
Qualifications (Continued)
- Lead the architecture, design, and enhancement of SAP FICO solutions with a primary focus on Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Product Costing.
- Provides architecture leadership and governance for Product Costing and Profitability capabilities, ensuring scalable, integrated, and standardized solutions across CO-PA, Product Costing, costing variants, transfer control, cost sheets, additive costing, costing without quantity structure, Material Ledger, transfer pricing, and intercompany/cross-border processes.
- Define scalable and sustainable SAP solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards and global business requirements.
- Provide architectural leadership on complex Finance and Supply Chain integration initiatives.
- Drive solution design decisions while balancing standard SAP functionality, business requirements, and long-term maintainability.
- Design and support Profitability Analysis (COPA) solutions
- Lead Product Costing design and configuration, including Costing variants, Transfer control, Cost sheets, Additive costing, Costing without quantity structure, Material Ledger
- Support transfer pricing models and complex intercompany/cross-border business processes.
- Defines and governs the end-to-end Finance Capability Architecture, ensuring seamless integration and architectural consistency across Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Demand-to-Build (D2B), and Book-to-Report (B2R) business
Qualifications (Continued)
- Lead workshops to gather business requirements and conduct Fit/Gap analysis for global and regional deployments.
- Support global SAP implementations, enhancement releases, and business transformation initiatives.
- Partner with regional and global stakeholders to standardize processes while addressing local business requirements.
- Support testing activities
- Provide architectural oversight for Application Management Services (AMS), enhancements, break-fix activities, and production support.
- Collaborate with development teams to define and review functional specifications, custom enhancements, interfaces, and integrations.
- Provide architecture governance by working closely with ABAP development teams across design, build, testing, and deployment phases to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards and technical best practices.
- Ensure adherence to Solution Architecture and Center of Excellence (CoE) standards and methodologies. ·
- Minimum Education Level: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum Years of Experience: 7+
Pay Range:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $122,900.00 to $202,500.00. Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program as well as participation in the share incentive plan. In addition,
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com.
Michigan Applicants: Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.
Philadelphia Applicants: Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law
Rhode Island Applicants: The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.
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What New York Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior product design jobs across New York.
- Minimum of seven or more years of product design experience across digital platforms
- Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end design from discovery through delivery
- Proficiency in Figma, Protopie, and collaborative design systems tooling
- Experience managing or mentoring junior and mid-level designers on product teams
- Portfolio showing shipped consumer or enterprise products at significant scale
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with product managers, engineers, and researchers
Senior Product Design Jobs in New York: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior product design in New York?
Reaching a senior product design role in New York typically requires a combination of a bachelor's degree in interaction design, industrial design, or a related field, and several years of progressively responsible work on digital products. New York does not require a state license for product designers. Employers in the city place heavy weight on a portfolio demonstrating shipped work, systems thinking, and evidence of cross-functional leadership at tech companies, agencies, or in-house teams.
How much do senior product designs make in New York?
Senior product designs in New York earn a median of about $89,640 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $59,160 for the lowest 10% to over $160,380 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior product designs in New York?
Employers hiring senior product designs in New York right now include Datadog, Capital One, and Information Technology Senior Management Forum, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. New York's concentration of fintech, media, and enterprise software companies means that senior design demand runs consistently throughout the year rather than in seasonal waves.
Which New York cities have the most senior product design jobs?
New York, New York State, and Buffalo have the most senior product design openings in New York. Manhattan drives the largest share because of its density of technology headquarters, financial institutions, and media companies, while Brooklyn's growing tech and startup community contributes a meaningful share, and Jersey City draws demand from financial services firms that operate across the Hudson from Lower Manhattan.
Are there remote senior product design jobs in New York?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 100% of senior product design openings tied to New York are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the fundamentally screen-based nature of the work. The portions most likely to remain fully remote are individual contributor roles focused on interaction and visual design, while positions that involve heavy stakeholder facilitation or design leadership tend to require at least partial in-office presence.
How can I get hired as a senior product design in New York with little or no experience?
The most realistic path is entering through an associate or junior product designer role at a New York agency or in-house team and building toward senior over two to four years. Large New York employers like Huge, R/GA, and major financial institutions run structured internship and new-graduate programs that feed their design pipelines. Lateral moves from UX research or visual design are common, and a focused portfolio of three to five case studies showing problem framing and measurable outcomes gives candidates in New York a consistent edge in competitive applicant pools.
Where can I find and apply to senior product design jobs in New York?
You can find and apply to senior product design jobs in New York on Migrate Mate, which lists current New York openings from employers actively hiring for this role. Search the listings, find roles that fit your experience and preferred location, and apply directly to the ones that match.
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