Lead UX Designer for Real-Time Trading Tools

IMC Trading; Illinois; On-site; USD 200,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid leave

Insurance

Job summary

IMC Trading is seeking a Lead UX Designer to help define how users understand the market, explore data, and make real-time decisions. You will work with traders, researchers, and engineers to craft fast, intuitive interfaces and a scalable design system across the platform.

The role emphasizes high-quality, information-dense design for expert users, balancing speed with visual clarity and aligning with the firm’s future UX vision.

Qualifications

• Experience designing systems that are the central focus of a user’s day-to-day
• A strong portfolio demonstrating interaction design and visual craft
• Experience with complex or technical products in fast-paced environments
• Strong intuition for designing tools used under time pressure
• Fluency in wireframing, prototyping, and communicating design intent
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and understand implementation constraints
• Clear and effective communicator across disciplines
• Pragmatic mindset valuing simplicity, consistency, and quality

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to design interfaces that support core trading behavior
• Develop a deep understanding of user needs, workflows, and day-to-day usage through research and observation
• Translate complex requirements into intuitive, coherent, and visually clear designs
• Design information-dense, high-reliability interfaces for expert power users, where speed, accuracy and clarity under pressure are critical
• Balance efficiency with usability and visual quality across critical workflows
• Lead the evolution of shared design systems and interaction patterns
• Advocate for user-centered design and usability testing throughout the product lifecycle
• Partner with engineering to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and well implemented
• Navigate conflicting feedback and propose thoughtful tradeoffs aligned with user and business goals
• Help define and drive a UX vision aligned with the platform’s future direction

Skills

UX design

System design

Prototyping

Wireframing

Cross-functional collaboration

User research

Communication

Design systems

Time management under pressure

Tools

Figma

Sketch

InVision

Job description

IMC Trading is seeking a Lead UX Designer to help define how users understand the market, explore data, and make real-time decisions. You will work with traders, researchers, and engineers to craft fast, intuitive interfaces and a scalable design system across the platform.

The role emphasizes high-quality, information-dense design for expert users, balancing speed with visual clarity and aligning with the firm’s future UX vision.