Lead UX Designer

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Salary

$200K-$225K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$66,396 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+3.5% - Average

220% above the BLS role benchmark for design aggregate.

Posted salary is far from this role benchmark; treat it as low confidence.

Matched to SOC 27-1024 - Design aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Design From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Lead UX Designer Chicago, United States At IMC, our trading tools are the environment traders and researchers live in all day. As a Lead UX Designer, you will help define how users understand the market, explore data, and make decisions in real time. This role combines deep workflow design with thoughtful, high quality user experience. IMC is making a significant reinvestment in its trading platform, rethinking core tools, workflows, and interaction patterns from the ground up. You will be on the ground floor of that effort, with real influence over how the platform evolves and how great UX shows up across the firm. You will work closely with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to design interfaces that are fast, intuitive, and well crafted. The goal is tools that feel natural under pressure, support complex decision making, and are genuinely good to use day after day. Your Core Responsibilities - Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to design interfaces that support core trading behavior - Develop a deep understanding of user needs, workflows, and day to day usage through research and observation - Translate complex requirements into intuitive, coherent, and visually clear designs - Design information-dense, high-reliability interfaces for expert power users, where speed, accuracy and clarity under pressure are critical - Balance efficiency with usability and visual quality across critical workflows - Lead the evolution of shared design systems and interaction patterns - Advocate for user centered design and usability testing throughout the product lifecycle - Partner with engineering

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