Proxymity does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Proxymity encourages application from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

About Proxymity

Proxymity is a market leading digital investor communications platform focused on providing regulatory compliant products focused initially on Proxy Voting and Shareholder Disclosure services. Founded in London and spun out of Citi, from the very beginning our mission focused on benefitting the whole capital markets ecosystem, rather than just one part or one player within it. This ethos is endorsed by investment from global consortium of some the industry’s most influential financial institutions.

About Us - Proxymity

Proxymity’s service offering is now a Global one, matching the needs of our custodian and broker community respectively. This is reflected by a fast-growing client base who have long desired an improved service by a trusted vendor. As a result, we are a fast-growth company and have already gone from 10 - 200+ employees in the last four years with a global footprint in London, New York, Tel-Aviv, Melbourne.

The role:

As the Product Designer, you will be responsible for championing user needs and delivering impactful experiences within a complex platform.  Forming part of the wider product team, you will work closely with technology, client facing, and operations teams to deliver user centric and innovative designs. You will use your skills to help bring to life working prototypes and should have a mix of UX and UI skills.

We have flexibility for a permanent, fixed term contract or consultancy agreement for qualified candidates. You will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week.

• User Research & Analysis: Conduct market research and user interviews to understand target audience needs and pain points.
• Ideation & Concept Development: Develop design concepts that align with user needs and business objectives.
• Prototyping & Testing: Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs; test and iterate based on user feedback.
• Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure design feasibility and alignment with project goals.
• Design System Management: Maintain and update design systems to ensure consistency across products.

Requirements

• Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and familiarity with prototyping tools. Additionally, knowledge and ability to write Javascript is preferred.  Must be able to create artefacts to assist web developers to implement designs such as CSS and UI components.
• Experience: At least 5 years’ experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing problem-solving skills, design thinking and dealing with complex B2B Enterprise Software.
• Soft Skills: Strong communication, collaboration, and time-management abilities

Benefits

• 401K plan
• Private health insurance 
• 25 annual days leave
• Headspace subscription 
• Birthday off in addition to annual leave 
• Access to Absorb Learning 
• Improved family-friendly policies 
• Hybrid working  
• Choose your tech 
• 2 duvet days a year 
• 1 volunteer day a year 
• 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity 
• Workation- Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year. 
• Companywide parties twice a year 
• Team drinks 
• A company wins programme 
• Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, wellbeing etc. 

To assist us with evolving our DEI efforts and ensuring our process is as inclusive as possible, we will be sending out a brief diversity and inclusion survey for you to complete if you choose to apply for this position. This will be completely anonymous and is in no way tied to your application. If you could please take a few minutes out of your day to complete this that would be much appreciated.