Product Design Manager (Open for relocation to Malaysia/Dubai)
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About the Role
NEXT Ventures seeks a Product Design Manager to lead design for trading and brokerage platforms. You will manage a team of designers, drive design vision, and collaborate with product and engineering to deliver intuitive fintech experiences.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Set and drive product design vision across FNmarkets' trading and brokerage platforms
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of product designers
- Lead cross functional collaboration with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders
- Establish and evolve design systems, processes, and standards
- Conduct and oversee user research, synthesizing insights from active traders
- Champion user centered design while balancing business goals, technical constraints, and regulatory requirements
- Prototype, test, and iterate rapidly
- Travel occasionally for co working sessions, team offsites, user research, and strategic planning
Requirements
- 7+ years of product design experience
- 2+ years in a design management or lead role
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped products at scale
- Experience launching and scaling trading or brokerage products in fintech
- Deep fluency in Figma, prototyping tools, and design systems
- Strong commercial acumen balancing user experience, regulatory requirements, and revenue impact
- Proven ability to build, manage, and develop high performing design teams
- Experience designing for fintech, trading platforms, SaaS, or complex data rich products
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ownership mindset with track record of delivering measurable product outcomes
- Bias for action: prototype fast, test early, iterate based on feedback and data
- Bonus: Experience with prop trading, brokerages, fintech, crypto, or global first products
Full Job Posting
Who We Are
- NEXT Ventures is a global platform revolutionizing access to performance based capital.
- Through flagship brand FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers.
- 500+ driven minds across five countries, powering 220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations.
Your Role in Our Mission
- As a Product Designer Manager, you'll be the creative and strategic force behind products used by traders worldwide.
- You'll work independently across overlapping time zones, collaborating with product, engineering, and leadership.
- Drive design vision from concept to launch, influencing product strategy.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Define and drive the product design vision for FNmarkets' trading and brokerage ecosystem.
- Lead cross functional teams to deliver scalable, high impact fintech products.
- Set the design vision, manage and mentor a team of product designers, and ensure design excellence.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Setting and driving product design vision across FNmarkets' platforms.
- Managing, mentoring, and growing a team of product designers.
- Leading cross functional collaboration with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
- Establishing and evolving design systems, processes, and standards.
- Conducting and overseeing user research.
- Championing user centered design while balancing business goals and regulatory requirements.
- Prototyping, testing, and iterating rapidly.
- Traveling occasionally for co working sessions, team offsites, user research, and strategic planning.
What You’ll Need
- 7+ years of product design experience with at least 2+ years in a design management or lead role.
- Demonstrated success launching and scaling trading or brokerage products in competitive fintech environments.
- Strong commercial acumen: balancing user experience, regulatory requirements, and revenue impact.
- Proven ability to build, manage, and develop high performing design teams.
- Deep fluency in Figma, prototyping tools, and design systems.
- Experience designing for fintech, trading platforms, SaaS, or similarly complex, data rich products.
Perks
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Ownership mindset with a track record of delivering measurable product outcomes.
- A bias for action: prototype fast, test early, iterate based on feedback and data.
- Bonus: Experience with prop trading, brokerages, fintech, crypto, or global first products.
- Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools into the design workflow.
- Shape the future of fintech and proprietary trading.
- Work with a vibrant, young, fast moving team.
- Global exposure with travel opportunities.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Access to cutting edge tools, resources, and continuous learning opportunities.
Your Journey After Applying
- 30 minute HR Session with the Talent Acquisition team.
- 60 minute Session with the Direct Supervisor.
- 60 minute Session with Chief Strategy Officer.
Why Join NEXT
- At NEXT Ventures, performance drives innovation and impact.
- Join to architect a world class performance and rewards ecosystem.
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