Product Designer - UX

TMX Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

TMX Group is looking for a creative and driven Product Designer to join their team in London. In this role, you will be responsible for designing new features and enhancing their trading platform by collaborating closely with product managers and engineers. You'll utilize your skills in user research and design to create exceptional user interfaces that cater to the specific needs of energy traders and brokers. The company fosters a collaborative environment that encourages learning, innovation, and growth, providing you with the opportunity to shape the user experience in a dynamic sector.

Qualifications

• 1+ years designing financial markets applications including electronic trading systems.
• Proven graphic design and UI prototyping software experience.
• Ability to own a full design life cycle from specification to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the Product Design practice.
• Conduct user research to understand user challenges.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams.

Skills

User Research

UI Prototyping

Graphic Design

Agile Methodology

Communication Skills

Tools

WPF

HTML/CSS

Job description

As a Product Designer at Trayport, you will be responsible for the end-to-end design of new features and the continuous improvement of our trading platform. You will be expected to be a proactive force within the company, identifying opportunities for enhancement and taking the initiative to "get stuff done.". This role requires a deep understanding of the unique demands of energy traders & brokers and the ability to translate complex requirements into simple, elegant, and highly functional user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Continuing to build the Product Design practice at Trayport, working with highly effective Product & Technology teams to produce beautiful product design with intuitive workflows that makes the application irresistible to users.
• Work in close partnership with product management to define user problems and with engineering to ensure feasible and high-quality execution of your designs. You will be the bridge between user needs and technical implementation.
• You will own the customer experience of the client facing applications at Trayport and ensure a consistent and coherent approach across the whole product.
• Translating business requirements and customer insights into compelling ideas, wireframes, low & high fidelity mock-ups and UI specifications.
• User research to empathetically understand challenges users face with commodity trading systems, using a qualitative and quantitative approach.
• Thrive in an agile development process, rapidly producing and iterating on wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.

The Person

• You focus on the design process and keep the end-user experience in mind to deliver best in class results.
• You know that “doing things properly” isn’t always perfection, but knowing when to be scrappy and when to hone in on the details.
• You want good inputs, from customers and the business, data focused and subjective empathic feels in equal measure.
• You have a design instinct who is as happy designing a blank canvas to correcting pixels moments before release.
• You will be working side-by-side with Product Managers and Developers to create world leading results; this is a great opportunity for someone who wants to expand their skills and work on products driven by a yearn to constantly improve and learn.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• 1+ years designing financial markets applications including electronic trading systems.
• Sound experience in user research with a quantitative and qualitative approach to a feedback cycle. Leading user testing, focus groups and metrics.
• Ability to own a full design life cycle from specification, design wireframes, prototypes and working with developers to implement.
• Proven graphic design and UI prototyping software experience.
• Empathic designer that can understand how a user feels to create excellent workflows and design.
• Competent in agile working, not necessarily getting it right the first time, but a constant focus on perfection.
• Ability to present options and articulate design decisions, internally and with clients.
• Proficient in designing Windows and Web applications (WPF,HTML/CSS).
• Desirable
• iOS and Android App design experience and can site examples of what worked well and what didn’t, along with challenges faced with both platforms.
• Multivariate Testing (MVT) experience and can articulate how you applied it and why it was useful.
• Strong communication and advocacy skills.
• Portfolio of previous design work that outlines the problem, the process you applied, and the output of that process.

Desirable

• iOS and Android App design experience and can site examples of what worked well and what didn’t, along with challenges faced with both platforms.
• Multivariate Testing (MVT) experience and can articulate how you applied it and why it was useful.
• Strong communication and advocacy skills.
• Portfolio of previous design work that outlines the problem, the process you applied, and the output of that process.
  

Trayport is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.

About Us

Our Culture:

At Trayport, our people power our success. We are a place where talented people never stop learning, innovating and working together to make an impact!

We offer you more than a job - we offer you the opportunity to work with, and learn from the most respected industry and thought leaders in the business.We’re always pushing the boundaries, rapidly expanding our global presence across London, Vienna, Singapore, Bremen and North America.

At Trayport, we understand that our people are crucial to our future. We strive to provide a challenging and inspirational atmosphere; employing intelligent, enthusiastic, adaptable individuals and giving them the
freedom, training, and guidance to allow them to consistently achieve their potential.

If you share our vision and are motivated to challenge the status quo - we want to hear from you!