Thetradedesk
Senior Staff UX Visual Designer
London. Posted 3 months ago
The role
This senior individual-contributor role involves defining and elevating the visual and interaction design quality of the platform. You will lead high-fidelity design execution for flagship features and set design standards across the company.
What you will do
- Set the visual and interaction design bar for the platform
- Translate technical or data-heavy problems into product experiences
- Build and evolve design patterns and systems
- Lead hands-on, high-fidelity design for flagship product features
- Design dashboards, workflow tools, data visualization, and AI-assisted features
- Rapidly prototype concepts to test feasibility
- Drive user research and usability testing
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure technical feasibility
- Provide critique and design direction across the design team
- Mentor designers on visual craft, interaction design, and design systems thinking
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, Cognitive Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of experience in product design or UX design
- Proven track record shaping end-to-end design within complex enterprise or platform-based products
- Exceptional visual design skills across typography, layout, color, and information hierarchy
- Deep interaction design expertise across dashboards, workflow tools, and data visualization
- Strong command of Figma and modern prototyping tools
- Experience building or evolving design systems
- Strong research instincts using qualitative and quantitative insights
- Experience partnering with Product and Engineering and influencing senior leadership
- Portfolio demonstrating visual craft, interaction design, systems thinking, and measurable impact
Nice to have
- Working familiarity with AI-powered product patterns
About the company
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. Its technology helps advertisers reach audiences across the open internet.