Stocktwits is a leading social network and community of individual investors and traders. In this role, you will lead the design of new feature innovations and cross-platform experiences across iOS, Android, and Web, collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering to deliver high-quality product experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Design simple, elegant, and intuitive product experiences across iOS, Android, and Web
- Own end-to-end design for new features and improvements, from discovery and user flows to high-fidelity design, prototyping, testing, and iteration
- Create thoughtful experiences for complex financial data, social interaction, content discovery, and real-time market conversations
- Use user insights, product data, and feedback to inform design decisions and improve key user journeys
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales teams to define problems, explore solutions, and ship high-quality product experiences
- Clearly communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders
- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions around the evolution of the Stocktwits product experience
- Help maintain and evolve design patterns, components, and cross-platform consistency across iOS, Android, and Web
- Collaborate with and provide feedback to other designers, including mentoring junior team members when needed
- Be an advocate for our users; collect and synthesize insights from user research, product data, and competitive analysis to identify pain points and opportunities that deliver both user and business value
- Drive design quality and consistency across your squad's work, from early concepts through final delivery
- Craft clear design documentation, user flows, and handoff specs that enable smooth collaboration with Engineering
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding design priorities, tradeoffs, and execution plans
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional product design, UX, or UI design experience
- Experience designing consumer-facing digital products, preferably across mobile and web
- A strong portfolio demonstrating shipped product work, clear design thinking, visual craft, and problem-solving ability
- Experience designing data-dense interfaces, dashboards, feeds, charts, or complex information systems
- Strong Figma and design systems experience, including advanced use of auto layout, components, variants, responsive patterns, and clean file organization to support scalable cross-platform experiences
- Working knowledge of front-end development principles, with the ability to design realistic, scalable patterns that account for technical constraints across web and mobile
- Actively uses AI tools to accelerate design work, including prototyping, copywriting, and generating design variations
- Ability to move quickly, iterate based on feedback and constraints, and adapt to changing priorities
- Ability to clearly articulate design decisions, tradeoffs, and product rationale
- Strong collaboration skills and experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams
- Interest in financial markets, investing, trading, crypto, social platforms, or online communities is strongly preferred