About the Position
We are looking for a Staff UX Designer to join Jane Street’s Creative Engagement team, where you’ll shape how people interact with our firm through digital experiences. You will be joining at an inflection point: we are actively expanding our design talent to meet the growing demand across the organization.
You will lead user research initiatives to help your team deeply understand our diverse user communities and their needs. You will employ both qualitative and quantitative methods, from creating user personas and journey maps to developing and analyzing surveys and other engagement data, in order to inform design recommendations.
Demonstrating design craft is critical to the daily work of this role. In partnership with your team, you will rapidly sketch, storyboard, and prototype possible solutions for better digital experiences. You will drive an iterative design process centered on testing to refine and validate solutions. Through this cyclical process, you will help produce digital experiences that are intuitive and engaging and meet real user needs.
You will offer your insights on UX decisions across your team, advocate for usability testing across other parts of the firm, standardize user research methodologies, and further define how our teams can best partner with a design collaborator.
About You
- 5+ years of experience in UX design with a professional portfolio (please include a link to this in your resume or elsewhere in your application)
- Your portfolio demonstrates a mastery of distilling challenges people face with digital experiences into feasible solutions
- Passionate about understanding our users and making their lives easier
- Comfortable working on problems that rarely have clean, definitive answers; happy to make immediate, incremental improvements where there is obvious value
- Capable of leading design projects across a product lifecycle from early conception to launch
- Comfortable sharing ideas and designs early, and rapidly updating them within nebulous problem spaces
- Enjoys collaborating with a wide range of colleagues with different skill sets and levels of experience; approachable, humble, and curious
- Eager to create a strong design ethos within the firm and collaborate with colleagues to integrate a design process
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Top Skills
What We Do
Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people.
Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar.
Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles.
We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day.
People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
