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Lead UX Designer

Imc 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Onsite $200,000 - $225,000 Full-time Lead

The Lead UX Designer will collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to design interfaces supporting core trading behavior, requiring a deep understanding of user workflows derived from research and observation. Responsibilities also include translating complex requirements into clear designs and leading the evolution of shared design systems.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to design interfaces that support core trading behavior
  • Develop a deep understanding of user needs, workflows, and day-to-day usage through research and observation
  • Translate complex requirements into intuitive, coherent, and visually clear designs
  • Design information-dense, high-reliability interfaces for expert power users, where speed, accuracy, and clarity under pressure are critical
  • Lead the evolution of shared design systems and interaction patterns

Requirements

  • Experience designing systems that are the central focus of a user’s entire day to day
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating both interaction design and visual craft
  • Experience working with complex or technical products in fast-paced environments
  • Strong intuition for designing tools used under time pressure
  • Fluency in wireframing, prototyping, and communicating design intent

Benefits

  • Base salary
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Benefits, including paid leave and insurance

Key Skills

UX design Interaction design Visual design Wireframing Prototyping Design systems Interaction patterns User research User-centered design Design thinking Agile Scrum Communication Collaboration Leadership Problem-solving Complex systems Technical products Fast-paced environments Time pressure Data visualization Information design User experience Usability

About Imc

IMC is a 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.

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