What are the responsibilities and job description for the UI / UX Designer Job at Jump Trading in Chicago position at Jump Trading?
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.
We are seeking an experienced UI / UX Designer to join our expanding UX team. In this role, you will focus on improving and developing our suite of back-office applications that are vital tools for firm-critical business functions like technology and clearing.
What You'll Do :
- Understand and analyze complex internal customer requirements and technological challenges to propose elegant UX solutions that are feature-rich yet user-friendly.
- Learn and document detailed user requirements and identify areas where your work can drive the most business impact.
- Synthesize and present UX research to stakeholders, pinpointing areas for improvement and delivering on feature roadmaps.
- Utilize modern design tools, especially Figma, with a high degree of craft and UX focus to provide detailed specifications that cover workflow scenarios and accelerate engineering implementation.
- Contribute to and utilize an existing design system for a unified look-and-feel across a wide portfolio of applications, driving ongoing improvements to the component library.
- Propose user experiences that lead to cost-effective and efficient development cycles.
- Advocate for the adoption of the right mix of platform components with various engineering teams to ensure consistency and ease of use.
- Embed and work collaboratively with engineering teams to deliver incremental improvements.
- Other duties as assigned or needed
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Benefits
Annual Base Salary Range
200,000-$250,000 USD
Salary : $200,000 - $250,000
