UX Lead

At IMC Trading, innovation and technology are at the heart of everything we do. As a Lead UX Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in designing user experiences that empower our traders and quantitative researchers to excel. You'll create intuitive, responsive, and impactful user interfaces that streamline workflows and decision-making processes. This role is ideal for a designer who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys solving complex problems. You'll embed yourself with users and software engineers to iteratively improve user interfaces. Taking a pragmatic approach, you define good UX design as delivering tangible results. Ideally, you have a vision for how to build a community of UX professionals within the company.
Your Core Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to design user interfaces that support and enhance trading workflows.
• Conduct both qualitative and quantitative user research to deeply understand user needs, workflows, and priorities.
• Translate complex requirements into intuitive designs, ensuring seamless user interaction and a consistent user experience.
• Lead the creation and evolution of design systems, frameworks, and methodologies within the organization.
• Advocate for user-centered design practices and usability testing throughout the product lifecycle.
• Work with the overall engineering organization to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and well-implemented.
• Reconcile conflicting feedback and propose alternative solutions where necessary to meet user and business goals.
• Define and drive a UX vision and strategy that aligns with organizational objectives.
• Use quantitative metrics to inform iterative improvements in design and functionality.
• Travel to IMC's offices to build a growing community of UX professionals.

Your Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in User Interface, Interaction and Experience Design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your ability to design for complex systems and workflows.
• Preferably at big tech companies or in the high-tech sector is preferred
• Expertise in conducting user research, including interviews, analytics, and usability testing.
• Proficiency in wireframing, prototyping, and creating design documentation.
• Familiarity with common UI frameworks: React, Angular, Vue, Svelte.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• An engineering mindset that prioritizes simplicity, scalability, and robustness in design.
• Knowledge of the financial and trading domain is a plus, but eagerness to learn and adapt to this dynamic field is essential.
• Ability to manage stakeholders, balance competing priorities, and maintain focus on delivering user-centric solutions.

About Us
IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.