Senior Product Designer, Trading

tastytrade, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonuses

Stock Purchase Options

401k Plan

Paid Vacation Days

Paid Sick Days

Pet Insurance

Wellness & Mental Health Programs

Charitable Donation Matching

Daily catered lunch

Full kitchen with snacks and beverages

Shuttle to Metra

Job summary

tastytrade, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Designer to elevate our mobile trading experience. You will join the trading design team to craft complex features across web, desktop, and mobile, influencing product direction and driving meaningful conversion improvements.

You will collaborate with PMs and engineers, participate in discovery, and mentor peers while delivering high-quality, time-sensitive interfaces in a regulated financial environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience, with regulated financial environment experience.
• Strong mobile app design background for iOS/Android.
• Proven ability to move metrics via design decisions and influence product direction.
• Ability to lead projects with minimal scaffolding and collaborate with PMs/engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own design for complex trading features across web, desktop, and mobile from problem definition through ship.
• Partner with PMs and engineers to influence product direction.
• Participate in discovery via user research, usability testing, and data review.
• Propose and run A/B tests, measure outcomes, and inform next steps.
• Communicate design decisions clearly to cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Mentor other designers on product thinking and domain knowledge.

Skills

Product design

Mobile app design

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Job description

tastytrade is a self-directed brokerage built for active options and futures traders, with a platform spanning web, desktop, and mobile. We’re 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.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who understands trading, can work through genuinely hard product problems, and can operate independently alongside a PM and engineering team. This is not a role for someone who needs a lot of scaffolding.

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
• 401k Plan
• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
• 10 Paid Sick Days
• Pet Insurance
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs
• Charitable Donation Matching
• Daily catered lunch when in the office
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
• Shuttle to/from Metra

Discretionary Performance Bonus

8‑12% of base salary based on individual and company performance.

Location

Our office is in the West Loop – Chicago’s growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high‑end bars.

1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607