Senior Product Designer, Trading

Department: Product

Reports To: UX Design Manager

Employment Type: Full-Time

Salary : $132,000 – $160,000

About the Role

tastytrade is a self-directed brokerage built for active options and futures traders, with a platform spanning web, desktop, and mobile. We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our trading design team and significantly raise the quality of our mobile trading experience: tastytrade's largest and fastest-growing customer surface, and the area with the most direct line between focused design investment and meaningful conversion improvement. This role operates at the intersection of complex financial product design and a regulated environment where decisions carry real operational weight.

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer who understands trading, can work through genuinely hard product problems, and can operate independently alongside a PM and engineering team. This is not a role for someone who needs a lot of scaffolding.

What You'll Do:

Own design for complex trading features across web, desktop, and mobile from problem definition through ship: order flows, portfolio views, risk management tools, real-time data surfaces

Work as a peer with PMs and engineers, contributing to product direction rather than just executing it

Participate in discovery: user research, usability testing, and data review are part of how you form and defend design decisions, not an afterthought

Design for iteration: propose A/B tests, set up measurable experiments, and use results to inform the next move

Communicate design decisions clearly to designers and non-designers alike: run critiques, present rationale to leadership, align cross-functional teams

Give substantive feedback and contribute to a consistent product experience across the team

Connect your work to business outcomes: understand and be able to speak to how design affects conversion, retention, and engagement

Mentor other designers on product thinking, domain knowledge, and navigating complex problem spaces

Who You Are:

8+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years in a regulated financial environment (trading, brokerage, crypto, banking, investing, etc)

A track record of moving metrics: you can point to specific design decisions you owned that shifted conversion, retention, or engagement, and explain how you got there

Strong mobile app design background: you have shipped native iOS or Android and understand what makes mobile a distinct design challenge

Visual craft suited to complex, high-stakes interfaces: you design for expert users who are time-pressured and low on tolerance for friction, and your work ships at the same quality it was designed

Able to drive projects forward without heavy direction: you figure out what is needed, pull in the right people, and keep things moving

Bring strong product thinking to every project: collaborate closely with PMs and engineers as a peer, ask the right questions before execution starts, push back constructively when something doesn't serve users, and know when to commit and execute

Preferred Qualifications:

Direct experience with options, futures, or equities trading products

Experience designing for crypto trading or other emerging asset classes

Familiarity with real-time data, high-density interfaces and the constraints they create

Company Perks + Benefits:

Performance Bonuses

Stock Purchase Options

Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits

401k Plan

20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)

10 Paid Sick Days

Gym Membership Reimbursement

Commuter Benefits

Pet Insurance

Wellness Mental Health Programs

Charitable Donation Matching

Two Paid Volunteer Days Off

Daily catered lunch when in the office

Full kitchen with snacks and beverages

In-building gym

Shuttle to/from Metra

Discretionary Performance Bonus: 8-12% of base salary based on individual and company performance.

About IGNA + tasty

IG North America is home to tastytrade, tasty live , and tastyfx—a family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual investors. Founded in Chicago by the creators of thinkorswim, acquired by London-based IG Group in 2021, we combine startup innovation with the backing of a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof.

From our headquarters in Chicago's Fulton Market, our team builds award-winning trading platforms, produces live financial education content daily, and creates technology that makes complex markets accessible. tastytrade is our retail brokerage for self-directed investing and trading, with tasty live providing content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US.

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