UI / UX Designer Job at Jump Trading in Chicago
Jump Trading - Chicago, IL, United States, 60701
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Overview
Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.
We are seeking an experienced UI/UX Designer to join our expanding UX team. In this role, you will focus on improving and developing our suite of back-office applications that are vital tools for firm-critical business functions like technology and clearing.
What You'll Do:
- Understand and analyze complex internal customer requirements and technological challenges to propose elegant UX solutions that are feature-rich yet user-friendly.
- Learn and document detailed user requirements and identify areas where your work can drive the most business impact.
- Synthesize and present UX research to stakeholders, pinpointing areas for improvement and delivering on feature roadmaps.
- Utilize modern design tools, especially Figma, with a high degree of craft and UX focus to provide detailed specifications that cover workflow scenarios and accelerate engineering implementation.
- Contribute to and utilize an existing design system for a unified look-and-feel across a wide portfolio of applications, driving ongoing improvements to the component library.
- Propose user experiences that lead to cost-effective and efficient development cycles.
- Advocate for the adoption of the right mix of platform components with various engineering teams to ensure consistency and ease of use.
- Embed and work collaboratively with engineering teams to deliver incremental improvements.
- Other duties as assigned or needed
Skills You'll Need:
- At least 5+ years of experience with a design tool such as Figma or Sketch
- Basic knowledge of front-end engineering frameworks for web and desktop applications
- Experience defining and understanding user stories
- Deep intuition around how to structure quality user experience flows
- Passionate about making applications beautiful and user-friendly
- Empathetic to the user perspective
- Expertise with working with existing design languages such as Material UI
- Reliable and predictable availability
- Results-oriented approach
Bonus points:
- Experience working in positions with data-intensive applications, preferably with fintech platforms (but not required)
- Working knowledge of finance and financial industries is a plus
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs
Annual Base Salary Range
$200,000-$250,000 USD