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Senior Product Designer, Craft & Systems

Chicago, IL

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. In order to meet the demands of our product's growth, we're hiring a Senior Product Designer to drive foundational elements: build the token architecture, component system, and craft standards the whole organization moves on. This is foundational work with platform-wide impact in a regulated financial environment where design decisions carry operational weight alongside UX tradeoffs. 

We're looking for someone who leads with craft and thinks in systems. You'll work across our core platform, raise the craft bar across the team, and help build the design foundation that lets us scale quickly without accumulating debt. 

 

What You'll Do:

  • Own design execution across the core platform (web, desktop, and mobile) from early discovery through production handoff 
  • Set and hold a high craft standard across the team: precise visual execution, complete interaction states, clear information hierarchy, and appropriate motion. When you review work, you give specific feedback with a clear rationale, not general impressions 
  • Build and maintain design system foundations: shared token layer, component architecture, usage guidelines, and the conventions that keep the platform feeling coherent as it scales 
  • Partner with engineering on implementation quality: you care how the product shows up to real customers, not just whether the Figma file was polished before handoff 
  • Establish shared navigational conventions and design standards that vertical product teams build within 
  • Produce documentation thorough enough that other designers can build on your decisions without needing you in the room 
  • Work directly with PMs and engineers to define scope and make calls under ambiguity 
  • Mentor other designers on craft, systems thinking, and technical execution: invest in how they think through problems and grow their capabilities 

 

Who You Are:

  • 8+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years working in a regulated financial environment: fintech, trading, banking, crypto, investing, etc. 
  • A track record of moving metrics: you can point to specific design decisions you owned that shifted a meaningful outcome and explain the reasoning behind them 
  • Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system in a product org: tokens, component architecture, the decisions that let a team scale without accumulating debt 
  • High bar for visual craft in complex, data-dense interfaces: you bring the same rigor to a 40-column data table that others bring to a hero screen, and your portfolio demonstrates that visual quality and usability reinforce each other 
  • Systems thinking applied to design: you understand why a component decision matters at scale and can build foundations other designers extend without breaking 
  • Strong feedback and mentoring instincts: you can articulate what's wrong and why, and make the work better without taking over 

 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Background in options, futures, or equities trading products specifically 
  • Experience with token-based workflows and design-to-code handoff at a component level 
  • Crypto or emerging asset class product experience 

 

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, tastylive, 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 tastylive providing content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US.

We're a lean, collaborative team that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact. Whether you're building technology, creating content, serving customers, or supporting operations, you'll work alongside people who are passionate about disrupting traditional finance and genuinely care about helping traders succeed. Our culture rewards initiative, embraces experimentation, and measures success by the value we create for our users. The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG|tasty – the future gets built here.

Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.
tastytrade | tastylive | tastyfx 
1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607

*Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification. Our team is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

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