NinjaTrader
Sr. User Experience (UX) Product Designer - Mobile
NinjaTrader, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage FinTech company with an award-winning platform and over 1 million users. We are building products and services which empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, comfortable and fun. Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.
Do you have the following skills, experience and drive to succeed in this role Find out below.About You As a Senior 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, that will 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.Your passion for designing with both simplicity and innovation in mind will result in delivering best in class user experiences. You understand and appreciate the importance of an "always-learning" approach, while remaining current with design trends, research and strategy.You thrive in cross-functional environments as an exceptional collaborator and continually strive to make a meaningful impact in a positive, fast-paced working environment. Your experience brings the skillset of successfully creating and maintaining a bridge between clients, vision, strategy, and product management and development teams, with the ongoing goal of consistently creating "wow moments" through your design efforts.
In this role, you will:
Be part of a team, organization and culture that operates in a product-driven, Agile method, with a focus on client-feedbackCollaborate with colleagues and key stakeholders in a team environmentDesign software and website user interfaces and experiences for mobile, web, and desktopWork 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 experienceUse modern, industry best practices to design innovative capabilities and intuitive user flows to deliver a world class customer experienceLead the design of product offering through the creation of wireframes & mockups, and iterating based on stakeholder and client feedbackUncover and understand user needs, goals and behaviors and translate them into thoughtful user-centric products and featuresUnderstand organization goals and technical capabilities to apply to designsResearch competitive and cutting-edge marketplace and industry trends to identify opportunities for continued enhancementsHelp develop and deliver scalable design processes, tools, and practices for governance, workflows, and documentation for sharingConsult cross-functionally through brand visual design across the organizationMeet deliverables within agreed timeframes
Key Job Requirements:
3-5 years of UX and/or UI design experience – preferably in an agency or dedicated SaaS environmentSolid understanding of UX—wireframes, user personas, journey maps, user flows, and conversion-focused designSelf-motivated and able to easily execute without ample direction—with a proven record of successfully leading project UI and UX from concept to completionAdaptable, empathetic and solution-orientedStrong conceptual thinker—can define strong new approaches to new or existing processes and continue to build on those with strong conceptsStrong leader and collaborator—can confidently work with and clearly communicate with leads, directors, and aboveDesign skills—prototyping, wireframing and design tools such as Figma, Axure, InVisionAbility to effectively manage workloads and technical requirements to meet deliverables within agreed timeframesDetail-oriented, with the ability to think critically and efficiently multitask
Bonus Points For:
Adobe products (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)Experience using front-end code, including HTML5, CSS, etc.Design system management experienceRelevant work examples and portfolio will be requested
Our Core Benefits Include:
15 days PTO per year7 paid holidays annually401k with Company MatchHealth, Vision, Dental CoverageLife and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTraderAnd more!
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.#J-18808-Ljbffr
Do you have the following skills, experience and drive to succeed in this role Find out below.About You As a Senior 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, that will 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.Your passion for designing with both simplicity and innovation in mind will result in delivering best in class user experiences. You understand and appreciate the importance of an "always-learning" approach, while remaining current with design trends, research and strategy.You thrive in cross-functional environments as an exceptional collaborator and continually strive to make a meaningful impact in a positive, fast-paced working environment. Your experience brings the skillset of successfully creating and maintaining a bridge between clients, vision, strategy, and product management and development teams, with the ongoing goal of consistently creating "wow moments" through your design efforts.
In this role, you will:
Be part of a team, organization and culture that operates in a product-driven, Agile method, with a focus on client-feedbackCollaborate with colleagues and key stakeholders in a team environmentDesign software and website user interfaces and experiences for mobile, web, and desktopWork 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 experienceUse modern, industry best practices to design innovative capabilities and intuitive user flows to deliver a world class customer experienceLead the design of product offering through the creation of wireframes & mockups, and iterating based on stakeholder and client feedbackUncover and understand user needs, goals and behaviors and translate them into thoughtful user-centric products and featuresUnderstand organization goals and technical capabilities to apply to designsResearch competitive and cutting-edge marketplace and industry trends to identify opportunities for continued enhancementsHelp develop and deliver scalable design processes, tools, and practices for governance, workflows, and documentation for sharingConsult cross-functionally through brand visual design across the organizationMeet deliverables within agreed timeframes
Key Job Requirements:
3-5 years of UX and/or UI design experience – preferably in an agency or dedicated SaaS environmentSolid understanding of UX—wireframes, user personas, journey maps, user flows, and conversion-focused designSelf-motivated and able to easily execute without ample direction—with a proven record of successfully leading project UI and UX from concept to completionAdaptable, empathetic and solution-orientedStrong conceptual thinker—can define strong new approaches to new or existing processes and continue to build on those with strong conceptsStrong leader and collaborator—can confidently work with and clearly communicate with leads, directors, and aboveDesign skills—prototyping, wireframing and design tools such as Figma, Axure, InVisionAbility to effectively manage workloads and technical requirements to meet deliverables within agreed timeframesDetail-oriented, with the ability to think critically and efficiently multitask
Bonus Points For:
Adobe products (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)Experience using front-end code, including HTML5, CSS, etc.Design system management experienceRelevant work examples and portfolio will be requested
Our Core Benefits Include:
15 days PTO per year7 paid holidays annually401k with Company MatchHealth, Vision, Dental CoverageLife and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTraderAnd more!
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.#J-18808-Ljbffr