Lead Product Designer - New Trading Platform

IG Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in London seeks a Senior Product Designer to create a new trading experience for the APAC region. This role involves close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to shape and deliver a user-centric trading platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in product design, especially within educational environments, and a passion for user experience. Competitive benefits and a hybrid work model are offered.

Benefits

Flexible Benefits Package

Private medical cover

Life insurance

Contribution to gym memberships

Additional holiday days

Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Senior Designer with experience owning complex products.
• Experience advocating for user experience with Product and Engineering teams.
• Capability to perform rigorous customer research.
• Experience in both strategic and detailed levels of design.
• Driven to improve product design continuously.
• Preferably, experience in fintech and building zero-to-one products.

Responsibilities

• Architect a new trading experience for the APAC region.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams.
• Deliver world-class user experiences.

Skills

User experience design

Product strategy

Mobile app design

Research and insights

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Description

We’re looking for a Product Designer to architect a completely new trading experience for the APAC region. This role is critical to the success of our team, and you’ll be an equal partner to Product and Engineering in shaping this product and bringing it to market.

Who are we:

Hello, we’re IG Group. No, not Instagram – though we're a pretty big deal ourselves.

We’re a global, FTSE-listed company made up of a collection of progressive fintech brands in the world of online trading and investing. The best part? We’ve snapped up many awards for our top-class platforms, forward-thinking products, and incredible employee experiences.

We believe in financial freedom. And our purpose is to help ambitious people achieve it. Around , people use our groundbreaking technology and forward-thinking platforms to trade the financial products they know and love.

Did we mention we have offices in multiple countries? Yes, when you join IG Group, you'll have the chance to work across multiple brands with people all over the world. We work in cross-functional teams, focused on delivering at pace to improve the experience of traders on our platforms.

We also think hard about our ways of working as a company. At IG Group, we’ve set out five target behaviours that we expect everyone to strive to achieve in all that we do:

Lead & Inspire: Leading teams in a way that drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm;

Think Big: We focus on the problems that most move the needle of commercial outcomes;

Champion the client: We always keep the client's needs front of mind and deliver as much value for them in all that we do;

Deliver at pace: We work to ensure nothing stands in the way of fast delivery of sustainable growth for our business; and

Raise the bar: We raise the bar by taking ownership of outcomes and being accountable for making things better across IG.

The Team:

The Boost APAC team is tasked with defining a product that will bring a new generation of traders to IG’s platform. The team is well-funded and is seen as mission-critical to IG’s success in the APAC region.

Your role in the Team:

The Product Designer in this team will be an equal partner to Product and Engineering in shaping and bringing to market a coherent, differentiated trading platform. They are the expert in user experience and will be the architect of a delightful, differentiated product.

What you’ll do:

• An expert in user experience: This person will be responsible for what a customer sees and feels when they use our product. We’re looking for someone who takes that responsibility seriously and is invested in delivering world-class experiences.
• Deeply interested in the craft of product building: Building a successful product is a multi-disciplinary effort incorporating design, engineering, positioning, pricing, marketing, and much more. We’d like you to have an opinion on all of these things, not just on the design of the product.
• An appreciation for the importance of velocity: While we take the craft of product building seriously, it must be paired with an appreciation for the importance of speed. Making meaningful progress week-over-week is a core value of our team.
• Able to productively disagree: The most successful teams are the ones where all team members bring their unique experiences and perspectives to the table, debate, and move on. We’re looking for someone that is comfortable expressing an opinion, and sometimes being disagreed with.

What you’ll need for this role:

• You are a senior Designer with multiple years owning and leading complex products
• You have experience working closely with Product and Engineering, and advocating for user experience in that setting
• You have experience running a rigorous research process that results in customer insights
• You can operate at both the strategic level and the micro, detailed level of product design
• You are invested in the craft of product design and are driven to continuously improve
• You have designed mobile apps
• Preferably, you have fintech experience
• Preferably, you have built zero-to-one products

The perks:

• It really is more than a job. We’ll recognize your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (%)
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Contribution to gym memberships
• Days holiday, with additional day off to celebrate your birthday & additional days off a year for voluntary work (in total)
• The option to buy or sell holiday days
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform
• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse, and inclusive culture
• Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

Where you’ll work:

We follow a hybrid working model; we reckon it’s the best of both worlds. This model also feeds into our secret ingredients for innovation: diversity, flexibility, and close connection.

Plus, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse and inclusive workforce with a lot of creative energy.

Ask our employees what their favourite thing is about working at IG, and you’ll hear an echo of ‘our culture’! That’s because you can come to work as your authentic self. The things that make you, you – like your ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, age, gender identity/expression or physical capacity – can bring a fresh perspective or new skill to our business.

That’s why we welcome people from various walks of life; and anyone who wants to help us realize our vision and strategy.

So, if you’re keen to connect with our values, and lead the charge on innovation, you know what to do.