Senior Product Designer — Trading

Clear Street; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Clear Street is building a retail trading product and seeks a product designer who understands trading, not just UX conventions. You’ll own core trading surfaces—from research to order entry to portfolio management—and prototype in the real codebase with engineers and PMs.

You’ll ship across mobile, influence design systems, and contribute to decisions with real opinions. If you’ve designed for equities, options, futures, crypto, and related workflows, you’ll fit in and help grow a compact,

Qualifications

• Design experience for retail trading products with real users.
• Strong understanding of trading mechanics and user needs.
• Ability to critique existing tools and propose improvements.
• Mobile-first design approach is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own product design across trading surfaces from research to micro-interactions.
• Prototype in the real codebase using AI tooling.
• Contribute to and evolve the design system.
• Participate in product decisions with engineers and PMs.

Skills

Trading product design

Prototype in real codebase

Mobile design

Design systems

Autonomy in direction

Tools

AI tooling

Figma

Design in codebase

Job description

Clear Street Active is a new retail trading product. Equities, options, futures, crypto, prediction markets. We're building it with a small team, and we need a product designer who knows trading well, not just the UX conventions but what traders actually care about and where existing tools fall short.

This role owns the core trading surfaces: research, order entry, position management, portfolio. You'll work directly with engineers and PMs, prototype in the real codebase, and be in the room when product decisions get made.

What you'll do

• Own product design across the trading surfaces, from flow-level decisions down to the micro-interactions that matter when someone is mid-trade
• Prototype in the real codebase using AI tooling. Figma alone isn't enough here.
• Work within the design system as it gets built, and flag where it needs to grow
• Be in the room when product decisions happen and have real opinions about them

What we're looking for

• Has shipped retail trading products with real users: equities, options, futures, crypto, some meaningful combination. If you haven't designed for people making real trades with real money, this probably isn't the right fit.
• Understands trading mechanics well enough to have strong opinions about where current products get it wrong
• Strong craft and taste. The work should look considered.
• Mobile is expected, not optional. This isn't a desktop-only product.
• Can prototype in the real codebase using AI tooling. Not expected to write production code, but Figma alone isn't enough.
• High autonomy. You'll set your own direction and course-correct when you're wrong.

Nice to have

• Background at a consumer fintech with a strong design culture
• Options or derivatives UX specifically
• Has worked on or contributed to a design system

This is a small team. Everyone is building, giving feedback, and in the work together, not siloed by function.