UX Designer

We’re looking for a collaborative UX Designer to join our on-site team in Flushing, Queens. You will own end-to-end design for digital products with a fintech/investment focus, from discovery and user flows through high-fidelity prototyping, component design, handoffs, and iteration. You’ll also contribute to the ongoing development and maintenance of our design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and accessibility.

You’ll be working alongside our design and PM teams and reporting to our Lead Project Manager.

You’re a good fit if you’re a team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills, enjoy solving hard problems, and bring a curious, inquisitive mindset.

Key Responsibilities

· Design end-to-end user flows and journeys across web and mobile platforms

· Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and flows in Figma

· Build and maintain reusable components and patterns in the design system, adhering to WCAG accessibility standards

· Develop prototypes demonstrating interactions, edge cases, and micro-interactions

· Conduct heuristic evaluations and usability critiques

· Collaborate with product and engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle

· Produce clear design documentation, specifications, and rationale

· Deliver effective handoffs using Figma Dev Mode, annotations, and specs

· Incorporate user research insights, personas, and feedback into design decisions

· Stay current on design trends, tools, and best practices

· 3-5+ years as a UX Designer (or Product Designer with strong UX focus) shipping digital products

· Advanced proficiency in Figma (Auto Layout, variables, components, variants, libraries, Dev Mode)

· Experience building and maintaining design systems and reusable components at scale

· Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end process: flows, wireframes, prototypes, UI, handoffs

· Ability to mock up animated UX elements/transitions (Figma Smart Animate, ProtoPie, Principle, or After Effects)

· Solid understanding of UX heuristics, accessibility (WCAG), interaction principles, and platform best practices

· Excellent communication skills to articulate design rationale and trade-offs

· Empathy for users combined with a curious, problem-solving mindset

· Experience in cross-functional agile teams

· Ability to work full-time on-site in Flushing, Queens

Nice-to-Haves

· Experience scaling design systems across multiple products or teams

· Prior work on fintech, investment, or trading products (brokerage platforms, portfolio tools, trading interfaces, etc.)

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Employee discount
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account, * 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Do you need a sponsorship in future?

• This position requires candidates to provide a UX design portfolio or work samples. Would you be able to share those with us?

• This is an on-site position, and candidates will be expected to work in the office Monday through Friday.

Firstrade Securities Inc. is a pioneering online investment firm dedicated to empowering investors with innovative tools and comprehensive investment products. Since 1985, Firstrade has committed to delivering high-quality services, combining cutting-edge trading technology, an intuitive user interface, and exceptional customer support to meet diverse investing needs worldwide.