Product Designer

Unusual Whales is a financial data company focused on US markets and options, seeking a dedicated Product Designer to enhance the user experience of their web and mobile applications. The role involves owning end-to-end product design and collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to implement design improvements incrementally.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end product design for the web app - flows, IA, interaction, visual
• Partner with engineering on what to fix first, and how to ship in increments instead of a redesign-from-scratch
• Establish lightweight design conventions (a system without the overhead of a full design system on day one)
• Run small user research efforts as needed (interviews, usability checks); product will share this load with you
• Prototype when it accelerates engineering decisions
• Push back constructively on UI patterns that don't serve the user

Requirements:

• 3-6 years of product design experience shipping web products
• Portfolio of data-dense interfaces (dashboards, financial tools, analytics products, or similar)
• Real fluency in options trading or a closely related financial domain with the willingness to ramp on options fast
• Strong visual, interaction, and IA chops; you can take a flow from idea to engineering-ready spec without a handoff to another designer
• Comfortable working with engineers as peers, including when respectfully challenging their design instincts
• Self-directed; you can prioritize and structure your own work in an early-stage environment
• Crisp written communication - most of our collaboration is async
• Personal experience trading options or other derivatives
• Prior experience at a financial data vendor, brokerage, or trading platform
• Experience designing native mobile (iOS/Android)
• Experience helping engineering teams adopt design practices for the first time