Senior Product Designer - Trading Platform

This is the first design hire at GoCharting — there is no existing design function. Design decisions have been made ad hoc by the CEO and engineering team. Your mission: own product design end-to-end for a data-dense, power-user platform and set the quality bar for the next phase of growth.

You are a hands-on, autonomous founding designer — not a manager (yet). You will own the full surface: interaction design, visual/UI craft, end-to-end flows, and the lightweight research that informs them. The product is genuinely hard to design — real-time market microstructure, dense charting, trade execution, multi-asset data — and the bar is professional traders who live in this tool all day.

You report to the CEO initially, transitioning to the Head of Product once that role is filled. Success in Year 1: a measurably better, more coherent product experience and the foundations of a design practice (system, patterns, process) that scales. EU timezone, fully remote.

Must-haves:

• 5+ years in product design, with a portfolio of 3–4 products you shipped end-to-end (not concepts) — you own both interaction and visual craft
• Demonstrated comfort with complex, technical, data-dense, or power-user products — trading/charting, analytics/BI, dev-tools, or comparable
• Founding-designer mindset — moves fluidly between strategy and pixels, ships without a design manager
• Strong visual and interaction craft — polished, consistent, and accessible
• Expert in Figma; fluent in modern hand-off and design-system practice
• EU/US timezone overlap; written-first, async-friendly communicator

Nice-to-haves:

• Domain knowledge of trading / financial markets (footprint chart, volume profile, DOM, cumulative delta)
• Has built a design system from scratch
• Freemium B2C SaaS conversion / funnel-optimisation experience
• Has worked effectively with a small (3–5 person) engineering team