Senior Product Designer, Trading

tastytrade; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 132,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonuses

Stock Purchase Options

Medical / Vision / Dental Benefits

401(k) Plan

Paid vacation and birthday day

Paid sick days

Gym membership reimbursement

Commuter Benefits

Pet Insurance

Wellness & Mental Health Programs

Charitable Donation Matching

Volunteer Days Off

Daily catered lunch

In-building gym

Shuttle to Metra

Job summary

tastytrade, a self‑directed brokerage, is hiring a Senior Product Designer to elevate our mobile trading experience—the largest surface for customers across web, desktop, and mobile.

You will collaborate with the trading design team and work in a regulated environment where design decisions impact conversion and engagement. This role is based in Chicago, IL, in‑person, with opportunities to mentor other designers and influence product direction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years in a regulated financial environment.
• Track record of moving metrics: design decisions that shifted conversion/retention/engagement.
• Strong mobile app design background including native iOS or Android.
• Visual craft suited to high‑stakes interfaces for expert users.
• Able to drive projects forward with minimal direction and clear ownership.
• Bring strong product thinking and collaboration with PMs and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own design for complex trading features across web, desktop, and mobile from problem definition through ship.
• Work as a peer with PMs and engineers, contributing to product direction rather than just executing it.
• Participate in discovery: user research, usability testing, and data review are part of how you form decisions.
• Design for iteration: propose A/B tests, set up measurable experiments, and use results to inform next moves.
• Communicate design decisions clearly to designers and cross‑functional teammates; present rationale to leadership.
• Mentor other designers on product thinking and navigating complex problem spaces.
• Connect design to business outcomes: speak to how design affects conversion, retention, and engagement.

Skills

Product design

Regulated financial design

Mobile app design

User research

A/B testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About the Role

tastytrade is a self‑directed brokerage built for active options and futures traders, with a platform spanning web, desktop, and mobile. We are hiring a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our trading design team and significantly raise the quality of our mobile trading experience: tastytrade's largest and fastest‑growing customer surface, and the area with the most direct line between focused design investment and meaningful conversion improvement. This role operates at the intersection of complex financial product design and a regulated environment where decisions carry real operational weight.

Department: Product

Reports To: UX Design Manager

Employment Type: Full‑Time

Location: Chicago, IL – In‑Person

Salary: $132,000 – $160,000

What You'll Do

• Own design for complex trading features across web, desktop, and mobile from problem definition through ship: order flows, portfolio views, risk management tools, real‑time data surfaces
• Work as a peer with PMs and engineers, contributing to product direction rather than just executing it
• Participate in discovery: user research, usability testing, and data review are part of how you form and defend design decisions, not an afterthought
• Design for iteration: propose A/B tests, set up measurable experiments, and use results to inform the next move
• Communicate design decisions clearly to designers and non‑designers alike: run critiques, present rationale to leadership, align cross‑functional teams
• Give substantive feedback and contribute to a consistent product experience across the team
• Connect your work to business outcomes: understand and be able to speak to how design affects conversion, retention, and engagement
• Mentor other designers on product thinking, domain knowledge, and navigating complex problem spaces

Who You Are

• 8+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years in a regulated financial environment (trading, brokerage, crypto, banking, investing, etc.)
• A track record of moving metrics: you can point to specific design decisions you owned that shifted conversion, retention, or engagement, and explain how you got there
• Strong mobile app design background: you have shipped native iOS or Android and understand what makes mobile a distinct design challenge
• Visual craft suited to complex, high‑stakes interfaces: you design for expert users who are time‑pressured and low on tolerance for friction, and your work ships at the same quality it was designed
• Able to drive projects forward without heavy direction: you figure out what is needed, pull in the right people, and keep things moving
• Bring strong product thinking to every project: collaborate closely with PMs and engineers as a peer, ask the right questions before execution starts, push back constructively when something doesn't serve users, and know when to commit and execute

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with options, futures, or equities trading products
• Experience designing for crypto trading or other emerging asset classes
• Familiarity with real‑time data, high‑density interfaces and the constraints they create

Company Perks & Benefits

• Performance Bonuses
• Stock Purchase Options
• Medical / Vision / Dental Benefits
• 401(k) 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.

We Encourage You to Apply

• We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!