Senior Product Designer, Gamification at Tradeify

ABOUT TRADEIFY Tradeify is a fast-growing proprietary trading firm and fintech platform empowering traders with capital, cutting-edge tools, and a high-performance ecosystem. We serve a global trader community across futures and crypto, combining elite trading technology, education, and community to help traders succeed in the markets. We are building a platform experience that is engaging, motivating, and deeply rewarding for traders at every stage of their journey. THE OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Senior Product Designer, Gamification to lead the evolution of gamification across the Tradeify ecosystem. This role is centered around designing engaging systems that drive motivation, progression, retention, and long-term platform engagement. You will own the strategy and execution behind how users experience achievement, competition, rewards, progression, and behavioral feedback throughout the platform. This is a gamification-first role. While you will contribute to broader product design initiatives as needed, your primary responsibility will be building and improving systems that make the Tradeify experience more interactive, rewarding, and habit-forming. We are looking for someone who understands how to combine behavioral psychology, product thinking, systems design, and exceptional UX craft into experiences users genuinely love returning to. WHAT YOU’LL OWN GAMIFICATION & ENGAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Lead the design of gamification experiences across the Tradeify platform - Create progression systems including achievements, streaks, milestones, ranks, levels, quests, challenges, rewards, unlocks, and competitive mechanics - Design engagement loops that increase retention, consistency, and daily active usage - Build systems that encourage healthy trader habits and long-term platform participation - Partner with Product, Growth, and Data teams to experiment, measure, and iterate on engagement initiatives - Design motivational experiences that feel premium and sophisticated rather than gimmicky - Develop frameworks around user progression, status, recognition, and achievement systems - Contribute to the long-term gamification vision and strategy across futures and crypto products SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGN RESPONSIBILITIES - Support broader product design initiatives across the platform as needed - Create intuitive user experiences for complex trading and fintech workflows - Produce wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and polished high-fidelity designs - Collaborate closely with Engineers and Product Managers from concept through launch - Help improve onboarding, feature adoption, and overall platform usability - Contribute to design systems, interaction patterns, and UX standards WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR GAMIFICATION EXPERTISE - Proven experience designing gamification systems, progression mechanics, loyalty systems, engagement loops, or habit-forming digital experiences - Strong understanding of behavioral psychology, player motivation, retention mechanics, and reward systems - Experience creating systems that drive engagement without sacrificing trust or user experience - Ability to think in systems, economies, incentives, and progression models - Strong experimentation mindset with experience iterating based on user behavior and data PRODUCT DESIGN EXPERIENCE - 5+ years of product design experience in SaaS, fintech, gaming, consumer tech, or high-growth digital products - Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped product work and high-quality UX/UI execution - Excellent visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking skills - Expertise with Figma and modern product design workflows - Experience working cross-functionally in fast-paced product environments BONUS POINTS - Experience in gaming, fantasy sports, trading, investing, crypto, or competitive platforms - Experience designing for highly engaged online communities - Familiarity with growth experimentation and A/B testing - Experience with data-dense interfaces or fintech products - Startup experience operating in fast-moving environments WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - Users become more engaged, consistent, and invested in the platform experience - Gamification systems meaningfully improve retention and participation - Traders feel a stronger sense of progression, accomplishment, and competition - Product experiences feel polished, motivating, and differentiated from competitors - Tradeify establishes a best-in-class gamified trading experience within fintech WHY TRADEIFY - Opportunity to build gamification systems at scale in a high-growth fintech company - Direct influence on user engagement and product strategy - Fast-moving environment with high ownership and autonomy - Work on a product used daily by a passionate global trading community - Unique intersection of fintech, trading, behavioral design, competition, and community