Senior Product Designer, Craft & Systems

About the role

tastytrade is a self-directed brokerage built for active options and futures traders, with a platform spanning web, desktop, and mobile. In order to meet the demands of our product's growth, we're hiring a Senior Product Designer to drive foundational elements: build the token architecture, component system, and craft standards the whole organization moves on. This is foundational work with platform-wide impact in a regulated financial environment where design decisions carry operational weight alongside UX tradeoffs.

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. When you review work, you give specific feedback with a clear rationale, not general impressions
• Build and maintain design system foundations: shared token layer, component architecture, usage guidelines, and the conventions that keep the platform feeling coherent as it scales
• Partner with engineering on implementation quality: you 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 that vertical product teams build within
• Produce documentation thorough enough that 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 working in a regulated financial environment: fintech, trading, banking, crypto, investing, etc.
• A track record of moving metrics: you can point to specific design decisions you owned that shifted a meaningful outcome and explain the reasoning behind them
• Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system in a product org: tokens, component architecture, the decisions that let a team scale without accumulating debt
• High bar for visual craft in complex, data-dense interfaces: you bring the same rigor to a 40-column data table that others bring to a hero screen, and your portfolio demonstrates that visual quality and usability reinforce each other
• Systems thinking applied to design: you understand why a component decision matters at scale and can build foundations other designers extend without breaking
• Strong feedback and mentoring instincts: you can articulate what's wrong and why, and make the work better 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

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