Senior Product Designer, Trading

Department: Product

Reports To: Head of Product

Employment Type:Full-Time

Location:Chicago IL In-Person

Salary: $132000 $160000

About the Role

tastytradeis a self-directed brokerage built for active options andfuturestraders with a platform spanning web desktop and a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our trading design team and significantly raise the quality of our mobile trading experience:tastytradeslargest and fastest-growing customer surface and the area with the most direct line between focused design investment and meaningful conversion improvement. This roleoperatesat the intersection of complex financial product design and a regulated environment where decisions carry real operational weight.

Werelooking for a Senior Product Designer who understands trading can work through genuinely hard product problems and canoperateindependently alongside a PM and engineering team. This is not a role for someone who needs a lot of scaffolding.

What Youll 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: understandand be able to speak tohow 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 investingetc)

• A track recordof moving metrics: you can point to specific design decisionsyou ownedthat 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 somethingdoesntserve users andknowwhen 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-densityinterfacesand the constraints they create

• 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