Sr. UX Product Designer - Core Trading Experience

• A data-driven design practitioner with strong ideation skills, design thinking, and a passion for creating delightful user experience
• A collaborative powerhouse that thrives in an innovative, energetic, team environment and is skilled at turning insights into experience
• A bridge builder who excels at connecting the dots between design, data, client feedback, user needs, business goals, product strategy and engineering
• A driven, always-learning team-player who is excited about the opportunity to make an impact on the trading industry and design great product
• Local to Chicago, like to work at home Mondays and Fridays and at our fun, downtown offic

As a Senior UX Product Designer at NinjaTrader, you will use your extensive experience and best practices to drive, create, and deliver impactful UI and UX across a variety of products and services. You will help differentiate our offerings and delight our clients. Your experience working as part of a product-driven, agile culture and organization will lend to your success in this role.

• Be part of a team, organization, and culture that operates in a product-driven, agile method, with a focus on research and client-feedback
• Collaborate with colleagues and key stakeholders in a team environment
• Design software and website user interfaces and experiences for mobile, web, and desktop
• Work closely with Product Management to gain insights from client research; and use this data as a guiding force in design, with the goal of continually elevating the client experience
• Use modern, industry best practices to design innovative capabilities and intuitive user flows to deliver a world class customer experience
• Lead the design of products through the creation of wireframes & mockups, and iterate based on stakeholder and client feedback
• Research to uncover and understand user needs, goals, and behaviors and translate them into thoughtful user-centric products and features
• Learn about organization goals and technical capabilities to apply to designs
• Research competitive and cutting-edge marketplace and industry trends to identify opportunities for continued enhancements
• Help develop and deliver scalable design processes, tools, and practices for governance, workflows, and documentation for sharing
• Consult cross-functionally through brand visual design across the organization
• Deliver value daily

What we look for:

• 3-5 years of UX and/or UI design experience – preferably in an agency or dedicated SaaS environment
• Proficient in Figma with a robust portfolio, demonstrating a range of work styles and techniques across web and desktop applications, with well-honed design skills—wireframing, prototyping, high fidelity
• Proven record of leading design on advanced projects—executed with attention to detail and consistent on fundamentals
• Mastery of UX design fundamentals — including clean layouts with consistent spacing, font use, white space, alignment, etc. Also, wireframing, prototyping, journey maps, user flows, and conversion-focused design
• Strong conceptual thinker—can define strong new approaches to new or existing processes and continue to build on those with strong concepts
• Self-motivated and able to easily execute without ample direction
• Has worked with and under the bounds of robust design systems
• Adaptable, empathetic and solution-oriented
• Strong leader and collaborator—can confidently work with and clearly communicate with leads, directors, and above
• Design skills—prototyping, wireframing and design tools such as Figma, Axure, InVision
• Ability to effectively manage workloads and technical requirements to meet deliverables within agreed timeframe

Bonus Points For:

• Design system creation and management experience
• Illustration skills (Adobe Illustrator)
• Experience using front-end code, including HTML5, CSS, React etc.
• Experience prototyping in Axure