Product Designer

📍 Job Overview

Job Title: Product Designer

Company: Trade Nation

Location: Bulgaria (Remote)

Job Type: CONTRACTOR

Category: Product Design / UI/UX

Date Posted: 2026-06-05

Experience Level: Mid-level (2-5 years)

Remote Status: Fully Remote (with occasional travel to London)

🚀 Role Summary

• Drive the end-to-end design process, from understanding business briefs to delivering production-ready UI for web and app platforms.

• Act as a guardian of the Figma design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and adherence to established design tokens, variables, and naming conventions.

• Collaborate closely with front-end developers to facilitate seamless handoffs, ensuring accurate implementation of designs, including interaction states and responsive behavior.

• Proactively identify and resolve inconsistencies within the design system, contributing to its continuous improvement and scalability.

• Leverage customer feedback, analytics data (e.g., HotJar, Amplitude), and competitor insights to inform design decisions and validate solutions through A/B testing and prototyping.

📝 Enhancement Note: This role is positioned as a high-output delivery partner, emphasizing speed, precision, and consistency in UI delivery. The focus on a "Design Studio" suggests a centralized, collaborative design function within Trade Nation.

📈 Primary Responsibilities

• Own the entire design lifecycle: receive and clarify briefs from business stakeholders, confirm deliverables, format, and success criteria before commencing design work.

• Deliver high-quality UI designs within agreed timelines, promptly communicating any potential schedule risks or blockers.

• Meticulously adhere to the Figma design system, including strict usage of tokens, variables, design rules, and naming conventions.

• Create, maintain, and extend reusable components based on atomic design principles to ensure a clean, consistent, and scalable design system.

• Partner effectively with front-end developers to provide detailed developer-ready handoffs, encompassing interaction states, edge cases, and responsive behavior.

• Actively participate in Quality Assurance (QA) to verify that the implemented designs match the design intent.

• Proactively identify and propose well-considered solutions for gaps and inconsistencies within the design system.

• Conduct rigorous self-reviews of all design work against brief requirements before submission, demonstrating an iterative approach and a positive attitude.

📝 Enhancement Note: The emphasis on "owning the brief-to-delivery pipeline" and "fastidious attention to detail" indicates a strong expectation for autonomy and high standards in design execution. The requirement for proactive communication of risks is critical for a remote contractor role.

🎓 Skills & Qualifications

Education: While no specific degree is mentioned, a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is typically expected for this level of role.

Experience: 2-5 years of proven experience in product design, with a focus on UI/UX for digital products, particularly in fast-paced, delivery-oriented environments.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience in reliably delivering production-ready UI to specification and on agreed timelines.

• Deep proficiency in Figma, including advanced knowledge of design systems, components, variants, auto-layout, prototyping, and developer handoff features.

• Strong working knowledge of atomic design methodology and its application in building scalable component libraries.

• Experience designing and launching app and web-based financial products