Job Description
The Product Designer is a key part of a specialist product team whose challenge is to redefine the user experience and design the UI for our next-generation trading platform. The role reports to the UX Design Product Lead.
Background
Our Client is a successful and leading electronic trading platform used by 6000 traders across 1800 firms. The company currently has 600 employees (in different locations), of which 300 are technologists.
We recognise the need for specialist teams with a focus on the UX design and development. We’re looking to grow this capability by bringing on board talented and driven designers and developers. The purpose of these teams is to provide a consistent UI across the whole platform as part of its transformation and modernisation.
The product vision is to Maximize trading opportunity by providing Traders with the ultimate streamlined, flexible & frictionless workspace.
The role is perfect for someone who's looking to use their design skills to drive change - someone who wants to be part of specialist team in a forward-thinking company.
Responsibilities
- Work with product teams to understand user needs and identify key journeys. These are likely to follow a ‘Design Sprint’ pattern
- Define and design industry leading UIs for our products
- Design easy-to-understand end-to-end flows and use tools such as Figma (and potentially Axure, if appropriate) to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
- Demonstrate a deep interest in our users, what drives and motivates them and develop an understanding of their needs
- Ensure consistency, re-use and brand alignment
- Present ideas and supporting strategies to other teams or senior management
Qualifications
Knowledge/Experience
- Demonstrable experience designing complex UIs as part of a cross functional team
- Experience in hosting UX workshops, identifying user needs, defining user journeys and defining solutions from low-fi wireframes through to high fidelity UI designs
- Visual design experience with an understanding of typography, colour, layout, iconography, and aesthetic sense
- Experience with design systems
- Experience in strategic product thinking with the ability to understand product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on the impact to people and the company
- Experience in user research and a desire to talk to end users
- Experience in institutional credit markets, market data and post-trade services, and credit instruments such as corporate bonds and other types of fixed income products is not 100% required but would be a plus
Skills/Personal Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a user experience designer, product designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
- A solid understanding and experience of the UX design process and user centered design concepts
- Interaction design experience with ability to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs
- Experienced in using Figma, and ideally low-fi wire framing tools such as Axure
- Organized and able to manage complex design structures as part of a design system
- A flare for fresh, modern UX design (in complex, desktop-based systems)
- Able to articulate goals and objectives clearly and succinctly
Languages
- English
About the Company
Vistrada is a business, technology and management services organization focused on helping clients plan, design, implement and manage highly successful initiatives.