Job Description

Trade Nation is building a world-class Design Studio, and we're looking for a talented Product Designer to be at the heart of it.

In this role, you will serve as a high-output delivery partner to our product and marketing teams — translating well-scoped briefs into polished, production-ready UI with speed, precision and consistency.

You will be the guardian of quality within our design system, ensuring alignment across the Studio and working in close partnership with front-end developers to bring our component libraries to life.

If you are a designer who takes pride in craft, thrives on clarity, and finds deep satisfaction in shipping great work reliably — this role was built for you.

Who we are

Trade Nation is a global CFD and spread betting broker. We help traders make better decisions through clear market insights, transparent pricing and a fairer approach to trading.

Since 2014, we’ve grown into a market-leading, low-cost broker with our headquarters in London and offices across Europe, South Africa, Asia-Pacific, and key offshore regions including the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Our platform is available in 14 languages, making it accessible to traders worldwide.

Built on transparency and trust, and driven by our people, our focus is simple: helping customers trade more effectively. We do that by keeping costs low, cutting unnecessary complexity and using technology to put traders first.

Your team

This role can either be based in our Lisbon office or In our offices in South Africa. Our Lisbon office is located in the Marquês de Pombal area, in the heart of the city, with excellent access to public transport and a wide range of nearby restaurants, cafés, and services - including the beautiful Parque Eduardo VII. The office offers a comfortable and inclusive working environment, featuring dedicated wellbeing areas and communal spaces designed to support collaboration and connection. Our team plays a vital role in supporting our European market from our first continental European office.

Our South African presence is anchored in Cape Town and Johannesburg, with our Cape Town hub located in Tygervalley – a well-established commercial district in the Northern Suburbs. Positioned centrally with easy access to Durbanville, Bellville, and Cape Town’s CBD, the office offers the convenience of city connectivity without the congestion of the inner city.

Our Johannesburg office is located near Africa’s busiest square mile, the Rosebank office captures Johannesburg’s “City of Gold” energy while offering exceptional accessibility, being situated close to Rosebank Mall and the Gautrain Station.

Our commitments to each other

We have each other’s backs

There when we need each other most

We challenge each other

Be more creative, more curious, more bold

We thrive together

Taking our work to the next level

We form strong bonds

Through team building and social events

We don’t judge

Instead, we teach and are open to learning

We step up

Taking ownership and supporting each other to do the same

Responsibilities

• Own the brief-to-delivery pipeline: receive briefs from business stakeholders, resolve ambiguity proactively, and confirm deliverables, format and success criteria before a single pixel is placed
• Deliver high-quality UI to specification and on agreed timelines, communicating schedule risks immediately and transparently
• Work with fastidious attention to detail within our Figma design system, adhering to strict tokens & variables, design rules and naming conventions
• Create, maintain and extend reusable components using atomic design principles, keeping the system clean, consistent and scalable
• Partner closely with front-end developers to produce developer-ready handoffs — covering interaction states, edge cases and responsive behaviour — and participate in QA to ensure implementation matches design intent
• Proactively identify gaps and inconsistencies in the design system and propose well-considered resolutions
• Self-review all work rigorously against brief requirements before submission, and iterate with pace and a positive attitude

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering production-ready UI reliably, to brief and on time
• Deep proficiency in Figma, including design systems, components, variants, auto-layout, prototyping and developer handoff
• Strong working knowledge of atomic design methodology
• Experience designing and launching app and web-based financial products
• Experience working with remote development teams and producing spec-quality handoffs
• A track record of embedding customer feedback, analytics (HotJar, Amplitude) and competitor insight into design thinking
• Experience validating and refining through A/B testing and prototyping
• A genuine love of designing simplicity — no matter how complex or regulated the product

Preferred requirements

• Experience designing trading platforms or other tightly regulated financial products
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS sufficient to communicate accurately with developers
• Experience with Storybook or similar component documentation tools
• Exposure to AI-assisted design tooling, such as Figma Make or Claude

Benefits

• Competitive salary, and discretionary annual bonus.
• Private healthcare.
• Active Lifestyle allowance.
• Annual leave above minimum entitlement.
• Up to 3 weeks allowance to work in any location.