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UX Design Lead - 13 Month Maternity Cover Contract
Apply locations Sydney time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id CMC4707
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.
Picture yourself leading the design transformation of a platform that empowers millions of investors worldwide to access financial markets. As our Design Lead, you’ll step into a 13-month maternity cover (maximum term) position where you'll report directly to our Head of Product and take ownership of the UX/UI direction for our CMC Invest platform. This role will put you at the centre of making complex financial markets truly accessible for everyday investors.
You'll be stepping into a leadership position where your design decisions directly impact how people invest, trade, and build their financial futures. This role offers the perfect blend of creative leadership and strategic thinking, where you'll manage a Product Designer whilst collaborating with cross-functional teams across our global organisation. Your work will span multiple brands and touch every aspect of our user experience, from mobile apps to web platforms.
Why You'll Like Working Here:
Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:
- Continuous learning : Our generous L&D; program covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
- Leave benefits : 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.
- 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.
- $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!
- 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
- Lead the UX/UI direction of the CMC Invest platform, ensuring a consistent, intuitive, and user-centred experience across mobile and web.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Developers to co-create solutions that balance user value, technical feasibility, and commercial impact.
- Manage and evolve our design system in Figma to support scalable, accessible, and brand-aligned design work.
- Guide the team through launch phases of the new investing platform, ensuring feedback loops from internal stakeholders and customers are continuously informing improvements.
What Will Help You Be Successful?
- 5+ years in UX/UI or Product Design, with 2+ years in a leadership role
- Experience designing complex digital products
- Confident working in agile product teams with developers and product managers
- Strong skills in Figma, prototyping, and design systems
- Strong user research skills
- Comfortable engaging stakeholders at all levels with excellent communication skills
- Passionate about user-centred design, accessibility, and continuous improvement
- Eligibility to work 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
Click on the link to find out more about the things we live by at CMC Markets CMC Markets - Culture Video
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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About Us
CMC Markets is one of the world’s first ever fin-tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone.
Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there. Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution.
We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into current markets and increase revenue potential.
We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.
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📌 UX Design Lead - 13 Month Maternity Cover Contract
🏢 Cmc Markets
📍 Sydney