What you'll do:

Do you thrive on designing for the future and love engaging with your trading apps?

Our rapidly growing Product & Design organization is looking for an experienced, highly creative Product
UX Design Manager who is tuned in to investing and/or has a love for crypto, trading, etc. You'll play a
critical design leadership role responsible for concepting and designing a new, vibrant Trader
Engagement product with sharable content, contests, and social community features.

You are:

• A passionate, data-driven visionary and hands-on leader with strong design thinking for the next
  level
• A collaborative powerhouse that thrives in an innovative, energetic, team environment and is
  skilled at motivating and mentoring designers
• A bridge builder who excels at connecting the dots between design, client feedback, user needs,
  business goals, product strategy and engineering
• A driven, team-player who is excited about the opportunity to make an impact on the trading
  industry and grow our team
• Local to Chicago and like to both work at home and at a fun office space with your teammates.

As a Product UX Design Manager at NinjaTrader, you will lead the design charge, wearing multiple hats -
strategizing, creating wireframes, prototypes and high fidelity layouts, continuously iterating on user
feedback. You will use your extensive product design experience and industry best practices to craft
human-centered UI and UX across a variety of products and services. Your passion for designing with
both simplicity and innovation in mind will result in delivering best-in-class user experiences.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design of a brand new Trader Engagement product offering through the hands-on
  creation of wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity layouts, iterating based on stakeholder and
  client feedback
• Lead by example and mentor product designers while also contributing to design
• Collaborate with colleagues and key stakeholders in a team environment
• Work closely with UX Researchers and Product Management to get insights from client research
• Use data to drive design decisions, with the goal of continually elevating the client experience
• 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
• Employ modern, industry best practices to design innovative capabilities and intuitive user flows
• Help develop and deliver scalable design processes, tools, and practices for governance,
  workflows, and documentation for sharing
• Deliver value daily

What you'll need:

• 6+ 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, desktop and mobile applications, with well-honed design skills—wireframing,
  prototyping, high fidelity
• Proven record of leading design on advanced consumer engagement projects—executed with
  attention to detail and consistent on fundamentals
• Strong leader and collaborator—can confidently work with and clearly communicate with direct
  reports, peers, senior leaders, and above
• Has led or mentored other product designers
• Strong conceptual design thinker—can define strong new approaches to new or existing
  processes and continue to build on those with strong concepts
• 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
• Self-motivated and able to easily execute with minimal direction
• Has worked with and under the bounds of robust design systems
• Adaptable, empathetic and solution-oriented
• Ability to effectively manage workloads and technical requirements to meet deliverables within
  agreed timeframes

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