Lead Product Designer - Trading Platform

Job Description

We’re looking for a Product Designer to architect a completely new trading experience for the APAC region. This role is critical to the success of our team, and you’ll be an equal partner to Product and Engineering in shaping this product and bringing it to market.

Hello, we’re IG Group. No, not Instagram – though we're a pretty big deal ourselves.

We’re a global, FTSE
-listed company made up of a collection of progressive fintech brands in the world of online trading and investing. The best part? We’ve snapped up many awards for our top-class platforms, forward-thinking products, and incredible employee experiences.

We believe in financial freedom. And our purpose is to help ambitious people achieve it. Around , people use our groundbreaking technology and forward-thinking platforms to trade the financial products they know and love.

Did we mention we have offices in countries? Yes, when you join IG Group, you'll have the chance to work across multiple brands with people all over the world. We work in cross-functional teams, focused on delivering at pace to improve the experience of traders on our platforms.

We also think hard about our ways of working as a company. At IG Group, we’ve set out five target behaviours that we expect everyone to strive to achieve in all that we do :

• Lead & Inspire:
  Leading teams in a way that drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm;
• Think Big:
  We focus on the problems that most move the needle of commercial outcomes;
• Champion the client:
  We always keep the client's needs front of mind and deliver as much value for them in all that we do;
• Deliver at pace:
  We work to ensure nothing stands in the way of fast delivery of sustainable growth for our business;
• Raise the bar:
  We raise the bar by taking ownership of outcomes and being accountable for making things better across IG.

The Boost APAC team is tasked with defining a product that will bring a new generation of traders to IG’s platform. The team is well-fundedand is seen as mission-critical to IG’s success in the APAC region.

The Product Designer in this team will be an equal partner to Product and Engineering in shaping and bringing to market a coherent, differentiated trading platform. They are the expert in user experience and will be the architect of a delightful, differentiated product.

• An expert in user experience:
  This person will, more than any other, be responsible for what a customer sees and feels when they use our product.
  
  We’re looking for someone who takes that responsibility seriously and is invested in delivering world-class experiences.
• Deeply interested in the craft of product building:
  Building a successful product is a multi-disciplinary effort incorporating design, engineering, positioning, pricing, marketing, and much more. We’d like you to have an opinion on all of these things, not just on the design of the product.
• An appreciation for the importance of velocity:
  While we take the craft of product building seriously, it must be paired with an appreciation for the importance of speed. Making meaningful progress week-over-week is core value of our team.
• Able to productively disagree:
  The most successful teams are the ones where all team members bring their unique experiences and perspectives to the table, debate and move on. We’re looking for someone that is comfortable expressing an opinion, and sometimes being disagreed with.

• You are a senior Designer with multiple years owning and leading complex products
• You have experience working closely with Product and Engineering, and advocating for user experience in that setting
• You have experience running a rigorous research process that results in customer insights
• You can operate at both the strategic level and the micro, detailed level of product design
• You are invested in the craft of product design and are driven to continuously improve
• You have designed mobile apps
• Preferably, you have fintech experience
• Preferably, you have built zero-to-one products

• It really is more than a job. We’ll recognize your talent and make sure that you can still have a life –…