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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Onsite
If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.
Join CMC Markets as a Senior Product Designer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our global trading platform. This is an opportunity for a highly strategic designer who thrives on solving complex problems and transforming sophisticated financial concepts into intuitive, user-centric experiences. Since 1989, we’ve been redefining how the world trades and now we’re rebuilding our core trading platform from the ground up, completely reimagining what a best-in-class financial interface can be. This platform supports tens of thousands of retail and institutional traders making real-time financial decisions, so the work you do will have tangible impact. Every improvement from simplifying complex order flows to clarifying dense data visualisations directly reduces friction in high-stakes moments, making meaningful design impact part of your everyday role.
You'll lead the design of next-generation trading products used by customers worldwide, applying systems-thinking to create seamless workflows across web and mobile platforms. As a key contributor to our global design system, you'll help drive consistency, scalability, and innovation while ensuring the precision and reliability required in a professional trading environment.
Working closely with product and engineering leaders, you'll have the opportunity to influence product strategy, elevate design standards, and help modernise CMC's digital experience on a global scale. Beyond hands-on design, you'll mentor and support fellow designers, contributing to a collaborative and high-performing design culture. You’ll operate at the intersection of systems thinking and interaction design, leading end-to-end work on a product that demands both precision and creativity. You’ll own and evolve our Figma-based design system, ensuring it scales seamlessly across global web and mobile experiences. As the platform grows, so will the scope of your role.
Why you'll like working here
Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:
Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
$0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing
Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!
What you’ll be working on?
Translating complex trading requirements and dense financial data into high-performance interfaces that feel effortless for professional users
Owning and maturing our design system in Figma, evolving it into a scalable, accessible component library that works across web and mobile
Running the full design lifecycle for major workstreams, from discovery and logic mapping through to pixel-perfect delivery and implementation support
Conducting user research and usability testing to validate design decisions in a high-pressure, real-world trading environment
Partnering with Stakeholders, Product and Engineering teams to navigate technical constraints and working on large scale projects
Presenting design rationale to senior stakeholders, using data and design principles to build alignment on the platform's new direction
Coaching the broader team on best-practice human-centred design methods, enhancing both design excellence and delivery pace
What will help you be successful?
8+ years of product design experience, ideally within fintech, trading, or data-heavy enterprise environments
Deep expertise in Figma design systems, not just using them, but building and maintaining sophisticated, scalable component libraries
A portfolio that tells a clear story: complex problem in, elegant interface out with the process shown, not just the outcome
An eye for detail and a genuine obsession with typography, layout, grid systems, and high-density information display
Experience influencing product roadmaps and technical decisions within agile, cross-functional teams
The ability to create high-fidelity interactive prototypes that communicate complex user journeys to both users and stakeholders
You must have full working rights in Australia
The things we live by
CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone
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We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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