Senior Product Designer, Craft & Systems

Department: Product Reports To: UX Design Manager Employment Type: Full-Time Salary: $132,000 - $160,000

About the Role tastytrade is a self‑directed brokerage built for active options and futures traders, spanning web, desktop, and mobile.

The Senior Product Designer will drive foundational elements: building the token architecture, component system, and craft standards that the whole organization follows.

This work has platform‑wide impact in a regulated financial environment where design decisions carry operational weight alongside UX trade‑offs.

The candidate will lead with craft and systems thinking, raising the craft bar across the team and building a scalable design foundation.

• What You’ll Do
• Own design execution across the core platform (web, desktop, and mobile) from early discovery through production handoff.
• Set and hold a high craft standard across the team: precise visual execution, complete interaction states, clear information hierarchy, and appropriate motion.

Provide specific feedback with clear rationale rather than general impressions.

• Build and maintain design system foundations: shared token layer, component architecture, usage guidelines, and conventions that keep the platform coherent as it scales.
• Partner with engineering on implementation quality: care how the product shows up to real customers, not just whether the Figma file was polished before handoff.
• Establish shared navigational conventions and design standards for vertical product teams.
• Produce thorough documentation so other designers can build on your decisions without needing you in the room.
• Work directly with PMs and engineers to define scope and make calls under ambiguity.
• Mentor other designers on craft, systems thinking, and technical execution: invest in how they think through problems and grow their capabilities.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years in a regulated financial environment (fintech, trading, banking, crypto, investing, etc.).
• Track record of moving metrics: can point to specific design decisions you owned that shifted meaningful outcomes and explain the reasoning behind them.
• Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system in a product organization: tokens, component architecture, decisions that let a team scale without accumulating debt.
• High bar for visual craft in complex, data‑dense interfaces: rigorous on a 40‑column data table as on a hero screen, portfolio demonstrates visual quality and usability reinforce each other.
• Systems thinking applied to design: understand why a component decision matters at scale and can build foundations others can extend.
• Strong feedback and mentoring instincts: articulate what’s wrong and why, improving work without taking over.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Background in options, futures, or equities trading products specifically.
• Experience with token‑based workflows and design‑to‑code handoff at a component level.
• Crypto or emerging asset class product experience.

Benefits

• Performance bonuses.
• Stock purchase options.
• Medical, Vision, Dental benefits.
• 20 paid vacation days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday).
• 10 paid sick days.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Commuter benefits.
• Pet insurance.
• Wellness & Mental Health programs.
• Charitable donation matching.
• Two paid volunteer days off.
• Daily catered lunch when in the office.
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages.
• In‑building gym.
• Shuttle to/from Metra.
• Discretionary Performance Bonus

8‑12% of base salary based on individual and company performance.

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