Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Trading Space is seeking a Product Design Lead to build a strong design culture and lead its Product Design team. The role combines people leadership with hands-on product design, overseeing end-to-end UX/UI work, design processes, cross-functional collaboration, design systems, and product quality.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Product Design team through hiring, onboarding, mentorship, regular 1:1s, performance review feedback, and personal goals
- Plan and manage the team’s workload, balancing priorities, capacity, timelines, and business needs
- Improve design workflows, team rituals, review processes, and collaboration practices with Product and Engineering
- Review designers’ work, provide actionable feedback, and help the team solve complex product, UX, and interaction challenges
- Drive the end-to-end design process: from discovery, research, and problem framing to polished, dev-ready solutions, including UX hypotheses, design-side research, usability testing, competitor analysis, and data-informed improvements
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and stakeholders to shape product solutions, clarify requirements, and align design priorities
- Ensure high-quality and consistent UX/UI standards across products, including flows, edge cases, states, transitions, and responsive behavior
- Maintain and evolve the design system, guidelines, and design documentation across products
- Validate implemented solutions before release and support design quality throughout the development cycle
- Stay hands-on and contribute directly to key product design tasks when needed
- Keep the team up to date with industry trends, user psychology, UX patterns, and design best practices
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Product Design (UX/UI), preferably in product companies
- 2+ years of experience leading a Product Design team, including hiring, onboarding, regular 1:1s, performance reviews, feedback sessions, and career development
- Strong hands-on product design expertise and willingness to combine team leadership with individual design contribution
- Portfolio with at least 3 projects demonstrating strong web and mobile interface design, clear UX thinking, and business impact
- Advanced Figma skills, including wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mockups, FigJam, components, libraries, variables, and design systems
- Strong understanding of typography, visual hierarchy, color theory, interaction patterns, responsive design, and UX/UI best practices
- Experience planning and distributing design workload, estimating design efforts, and managing priorities across multiple initiatives
- Experience conducting or participating in user research, usability testing, competitor analysis, and translating insights into design decisions
- Experience establishing design processes, running design reviews/critiques, and improving team collaboration
- Ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints when making design decisions
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, with confidence presenting design decisions to cross-functional stakeholders
- Understanding of front-end development principles and the software development lifecycle
- Proactive leadership mindset with strong ownership, strategic thinking, prioritization, and decision-making skills
- Familiarity with the Steam trade system and skins market
- Domain experience in GameDev, Fintech, iGaming, or digital goods marketplaces
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience using product analytics tools to analyze user behavior and improve UX decisions
- 5+ years of experience in Product Design (UX/UI), preferably in product companies
- Gaming experience (CS2, Dota2, Rust) would be a big advantage
Benefits
- Spontaneous weekend from the CEO
- Support for professional development, including events, certifications, and educational materials
- Start working at a time that’s comfortable for you
- People Partner who will always support you in word and deed
- Anniversary and performance bonuses
- Input on project direction in a bureaucracy-free environment
- Regular performance reviews and personal feedback sessions
- 20 paid vacation days and 7 sick leave days
- Assisting with the accounting and tax management for individual entrepreneurs
- English language and Well-being benefit — so that you can improve your mental health the way you want
- No time tracking
- We purchase CHARGING STATIONS for our spacers
- We help Ukraine: every month the company supports AFU and transfers donations for ammunition and supplies
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