ION

Milan

Senior UX Designer - Italy

FULL TIME ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 8 months ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Seeking a Senior UX Designer to join a new design team, responsible for establishing product design strategy and delivering market-leading, high-impact products. This role requires expertise in user-centered design and a passion for learning complex domains.

Key Responsibilities

  • Champion user needs by placing them at the center of a flexible design process to solve complex business problems.
  • Conduct user research to understand customer needs, goals, and pain points, translating insights into compelling design concepts.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to define product strategy and ensure seamless execution.
  • Create user journeys, sketches, wireframes, and interactive prototypes to visualize and iterate on design solutions.
  • Clearly communicate the rationale behind design decisions, explaining the problem solved and the superiority of proposed solutions.
  • Contribute to and evolve the company's design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across products.

Requirements Snapshot

  • Excellent understanding of User-Centered Design (UCD) principles.
  • Expertise in user research and design methods for understanding current and future user experiences.
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional UX experience.
  • Proven experience collaborating with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers.
  • Proficiency with design tools such as Figma and Sketch.

Expected Impact

This role is expected to significantly influence the product design strategy, establish best practices for a new design team, and directly contribute to the creation of market-leading, highly usable, and successful products. The Senior UX Designer will be instrumental in shaping the user experience of complex products and building a robust design system.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

About ION 

We are a Software Product Company with a global footprint in the FinTech sector. With more than 10,000 professionals across 40+ offices worldwide, we provide solutions combining trading and workflow automation, market data, and advanced business intelligence 

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior UX Designer to join and help shape a growing design team. You will work closely with Product Managers, UI Designers, and Engineers to design intuitive, high‑impact products within complex domains.

You will play a central role in defining our product design strategy, establishing user‑centered ways of working, and contributing to the evolution of our design system, while ensuring user needs are consistently represented in product decisions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead user‑centred design activities to solve complex business and product challenges
  • Research and analyze user needs, goals, and pain points to inform design direction
  • Translate insights into user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes
  • Partner closely with Product and Business teams to understand domain and requirements
  • Facilitate and participate in workshops and collaborative design sessions
  • Clearly articulate research findings and design rationale, explaining trade‑offs and value
  • Act as the voice of the user, constructively challenging established assumptions
  • Collaborate with UX and UI Designers to align research, interaction, and visual design
  • Work closely with Engineers to ensure designs are feasible, well‑implemented, and consistent
  • Contribute to the definition and evolution of the design system
  • Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and learning‑oriented team culture

Your skills, experience, and qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in UX design
  • Strong expertise in user‑centered design, research methods, and design thinking
  • Proven ability to design end‑to‑end experiences for complex products
  • Experience working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers
  • Proficiency with design tools such as Figma and Sketch
  • Excellent ability to communicate complex design concepts clearly and effectively
  • Comfortable working in Agile environments and distributed teams
  • Curious, persistent, and motivated to explore alternative solutions
  • A portfolio demonstrating both design process and final deliverables
  • Fluency in English (B2)
  • Valid EU work permit for non‑EU candidates
Pursuant to Italian Law (L.68/99), candidates registered on the disability list will be given priority. Only candidates meeting the selection criteria will be contacted. Please apply only if you currently hold full legal right to work in Italy. 
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