Department: Productย
Reports To: UX Design Managerย
Employment Type:ย Full-Timeย
Location:ย Chicago, IL - In-Person
Salary: $132,000 - $160,000ย
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.ย
We'reย looking for someone who leads with craft and thinks in systems.ย You'llย 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.ย
What You'll Do:
- Own design execution across the core platform (web, desktop, and mobile) from early discovery through production handoffย
- Set and hold a high craft standard across the team: precise visual execution, complete interaction states, clear information hierarchy, andย appropriate motion. When you review work, you give specific feedback with a clear rationale, not general impressionsย
- Build andย maintainย design system foundations: shared token layer,ย componentย architecture, usage guidelines, and the conventions that keep the platform feeling coherent as it scalesย
- 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 handoffย
- Establish shared navigational conventions and design standards that vertical product teams build withinย
- Produce documentation thorough enough that other designers can build on your decisions without needing you in the roomย
- Work directly with PMs and engineers to define scope and make calls under ambiguityย
- Mentor other designers on craft, systems thinking, and technical execution: invest in how they think through problems and grow their capabilitiesย
Who You Are:
- 8+ years of product design experience,ย withย at least 2 yearsย workingย in a regulated financial environment: fintech, trading, banking, crypto, investing, etc.ย
- A track recordย of moving metrics: you can point toย specific design decisionsย you ownedย that shifted a meaningful outcome and explain the reasoning behind themย
- Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system in a product org: tokens,ย componentย architecture, the decisions that let a team scale without accumulating debtย
- Highย bar for visualย 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 portfolioย demonstratesย that visual quality and usability reinforce each otherย
- Systems thinking applied to design: you understand why aย componentย decision matters at scale and can build foundations other designers extend without breakingย
- Strong feedbackย and mentoringย instincts: you can articulateย what'sย wrong and why, and make the work better without taking overย
Preferred Qualificationsย
- Background in options, futures, or equities trading products specificallyย
- Experience with token-based workflows and design-to-code handoff at aย componentย levelย
- Crypto or emerging asset class product experienceย
Company Perks + Benefits:
- Performance Bonusesย
- Stock Purchase Optionsย
- Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
- 401k Planย
- 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)ย
- 10 Paid Sick Daysย
- Gym Membership Reimbursementย
- Commuter Benefitsย
- Pet Insuranceย
- Wellness & Mental Health Programsย
- Charitable Donation Matchingย
- Two Paid Volunteer Days Offย
- Daily catered lunch when in the officeย
- Full kitchen with snacks and beveragesย
- In-building gymย
- Shuttle to/from Metraย
Discretionary Performance Bonus:ย 8-12% of base salary based on individual and company performance.
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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 | tastyfxย
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!