Senior Product Experience Designer - Visual Systems - NYC - Fintech and Trading

WHO WE ARE

We are Adaptive, a growing and successful software company with a great reputation amongst staff and clients alike. We work closely with our financial clients to build bespoke software solutions to support their business goals. Adaptive has rapidly made a name for itself as a leading trading technology development company. Our clients range from innovative startup fintech firms to global investment banks.

Our UX Practice focuses on understanding and optimizing complex workflows to deliver beautifully crafted, transformative desktop, web and mobile experiences.

If you join us, you will take ownership of the clients design system, creating a cohesive visual language and user experience across products. You will collaborate closely with other Product Experience Designers, Developers, and Stakeholders to ensure the design system is scalable and adaptable to current and future needs.

Please note that this role will require you to be comfortable with working in-person at Adaptive or onsite with clients in Manhattan a few days a week.

YOU ARE: 

• A team player with great communication skills
• A curious person who loves learning new things
• A problem-solver person

YOU WILL:

• Lead the creation, management, and evolution of the products design system, including typography, color palettes, iconography, and component libraries using a tokenized system approach.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product managers, developers, and Product Experience Designers on separate streams) to ensure consistent design patterns across products.
• Utilize, adapt and maintain the design systems according to the clients branding.
• Provide support and guidance to all project product designers, ensuring that design best practices are followed.
• Facilitate design critiques, ensuring visual consistency and user-centric design throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for the design system, enabling easy implementation by product teams.
• Design and present high-fidelity mockups and prototypes with an eye for detail and innovative solutions, iterating based on client and team feedback.
• Stay current with design trends and user interface innovations, incorporating them into the design system as appropriate.

YOU HAVE:

• Solid experience of UX/UI design experience, with proven experience in a design systems role.
• Expertise in creating and managing design systems in Figma.
• Strong understanding of UX principles, visual hierarchy, and interaction design.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience liaising with developers and non-design stakeholders.
• Ability to drive visual consistency and advocate for user-centered design.
• Ability to quickly design and prototype using Figma
• Knowledge of designing within capital markets
  
  

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