Senior Product Experience Designer - Business Solutions - Fintech/Trading - NYC

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

Our designers work closely with clients to solve complex product design challenges. Our UX Design Practice focuses on understanding and optimizing traders’ workflows to deliver beautifully crafted, transformative desktop experiences.

YOU ARE: 

• A great team player 
• A great communicator
• Comfortable with working in-person at Adaptive or onsite with clients in Manhattan a few days a week.

YOU HAVE: 

• Extensive experience designing capital markets products/applications
• Experience consulting and managing stakeholder relationships
• Extensive experience in facilitating workshops and discovery phases
• The ability to work on all aspects of the design process (discovery, ideation, design)
• An understanding of electronic trading and financial markets
• Knowledge of building, maintaining and working with design systems
• The ability to quickly design and prototype using Figma
• An understanding of the value of a workflow-driven design process

YOU WILL: 

• Work alongside a Product Design Strategist to understand the client's vision and strategic design goals.
• Deliver high quality visual design artifacts using Figma. 
• Collaborate and communicate designs to client stakeholders and development teams.
• Solve complex design challenges based on industry expertise and best practices.
• Understand, extract and analyze requirements and business workflows.
• Transform workflows into beautifully crafted high-fidelity Figma prototypes. 
• Utilize, adapt and maintain design systems according to the clients branding.
• Iterate on designs, and present several concepts, based on client feedback.
• Work in a fast paced environment, while delivering polished high quality designs.
• Work closely with Adaptive’s Experience Design team for feedback and support.

WHY US: 

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive 🙂 ) You can learn from anyone here, which is  the beauty of it
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). Balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.
  
  

WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US

You can check our Glassdoor page  

BENEFITS  (What we offer in return // what you’ll get )

We create benefits with YOU in mind.

• Flexible Hybrid working model 
• Medical from the 1st of month following your start date (i.e. if you join on the 24th of July, it starts on the 1st of August). We have 6 Aetna plans to choose from as provided by our PEO, Justworks. We make a flat monthly contribution to your healthcare costs.
• Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - we have 3 dental and 2 vision plans to choose from.  We make fixed contributions to each.
• 23 days of vacation per calendar year plus 11 public holidays
• Group disability insurance: short-term and long-term (60% and taxable)
• 401K safe harbor plan where we match contributions up to 5% of base pay on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis (you can opt-in after 90 days of service)
• Gym subsidy of up to $50 per month (and we pay the taxes on that so it's a real $50) post probation.
• Life insurance at 2 x salary
• Commuter benefits
• Health Savings Account and F