At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs, and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Montreal, and Manilla. We have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant, and intuitive trading technology solutions.

Our designers work closely with clients to solve complex product design challenges. Our UX Design Practice focuses on understanding and optimizing traders’ workflows to deliver beautifully crafted, transformative desktop experiences. Adaptive is looking for a Senior Product Design Strategist to join our team in New York City.

YOU ARE: 

• A great team player 
• A great communicator
• Comfortable with working in-person at Adaptive or onsite with clients in Manhattan a few days a week.

YOU HAVE: 

• Strong experience designing capital markets products/applications
• Experience consulting and managing stakeholder relationships
• Extensive experience in facilitating workshops and discovery phases
• Can work on all aspects of the design process (discovery, ideation, design)
• Understanding of electronic trading and financial markets
• Knowledge of building and maintaining design systems
• Experience building a tokenized design language
• Ability to quickly design and prototyping using Figma
• Understand the value of a workflow-driven design process

YOU WILL: 

• Lead the discovery process and be the first on the project when starting a new engagement.
• Facilitate workshops and discovery sessions to understand the client's vision and strategic design goals.
• Understand, extract and analyze requirements.
• Deliver high quality visual design artifacts using Figma. 
• Define and document current and future state business workflows and communicate them effectively.
• Collaborate and communicate high level design strategy to client stakeholders and development teams.
• Define the visual direction and overall aesthetic of the product.
• Transform workflows into beautifully crafted high-fidelity figma prototypes. 
• Create design systems according to the clients branding, utilizing a tokenized approach.
• Define design system governance models based on the clients needs. 
• Solve complex design challenges based on industry expertise and best practices.
• Iterate on designs, and present several concepts, based on client feedback.
• Work in a fast paced environment, while delivering polished high quality designs, and supporting documentation.
• Work closely with Adaptive’s Experience Design team for feedback and support.
• Create and ensure the success of the design strategy, roadmap and plan for the project
• Work with an Adaptive UI Designer, to oversee and ensure designs get executed according to the clients requirements within the specified timeframes.
• Assess and keep an eye out for strategic growth opportunities for Adaptive.

 

WHY US: 

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive ) You can learn from anyone here, which is  the beauty of it
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). Balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programs.

WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US You can check our Glassdoor page  

BENEFITS  (What we offer in return // what you’ll get )

We create benefits with YOU in mind.

• Flexible Hybrid working model 
• 23 days vacation
• 401K - we match contributions up to 5% on a payroll-to-payroll basis
• Medical, dental, and vision cover.
• STD/LTD
• FLSA
• Gym subsidy
• Life insurance

 

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring and that is not us 😀 We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have four stage interviews:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.2- Review of your portfolio with Adaptive’s awesome UX team3- Final Round interview (on-site preferred) which will include a Design whiteboard challenge with our local UX head of practice and another designer. An interview with one of our Business Analysts will focus on users, stakeholders, and understanding requirements, And finally a discussion with our local director. But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter. 

A little tip for you during those stages: 

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc  

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without fearing judgment or negativity. 

All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles. 

E-Verify Adaptive uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of a new hire after they they have completed their I9. E-Verify is not used to pre-screen an applicant for employment, nor is it used to discriminate against applicants on any basis.

Base pay will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package. Pay is based on candidate skills and experience.New York pay range$150,000—$180,000 USD