About TradeVerge AI
Who you'd be joining.
TradeVerge AI builds verified, rules-based automation for the gold market. Our flagship product, Gold Core, is a MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor with a public, third-party-verified track record on Myfxbook and thousands of members inside our live desk. We are a small, remote-first team that prefers evidence to opinion: every claim we publish is auditable, every release is versioned, and every support answer is written by someone who understands the code.
Design owns the whole expression of the brand — the marketing surface, the member platform and the documents members receive. We work in a tight, opinionated system: Space Grotesk display, champagne gold accents, generous rhythm and no decorative noise. Consistency is a feature.
Why this role matters
Automation intimidates people. Good design is what turns 'I might break something' into 'I know exactly what this will do' — and that conversion is worth more than any ad we could buy.
What you'll actually do
The day-to-day, not the job-spec version.
- Own end-to-end flows from research through high-fidelity design and shipped QA
- Maintain and evolve the design system in partnership with engineering
- Design data-dense views that stay calm and readable
- Run lightweight usability sessions with real members
The team and how you'll work
You'll work inside design, reporting to the lead for design, and partner day to day with Engineering, Product, Marketing.
We are async-first across European and American time zones. Expect a short daily written check-in, one team sync a week, and long stretches of uninterrupted focus in between.
Decisions are written before they are made. If a change reaches members, there is a document explaining why, what we expect, and how we'll know if we were wrong.
Tools you'll live in: Figma · Design tokens in code · Framer Motion · Basic HTML/CSS literacy.
Your first 90 days
What a good start looks like — we'll agree this with you in week one.
- Complete onboarding with design: environments, access, and a walkthrough of how Gold Core actually behaves on a live account.
- Read the last two release memos end to end so you understand the standard of evidence we hold ourselves to.
- Ship one small, real improvement in your area — scoped with your manager in week one.
- Meet everyone you'll work with regularly across Engineering, Product, Marketing.
- Take full ownership of a defined area and become the person the rest of the team asks about it.
- Deliver your first substantial piece of work end to end, including the written rationale behind it.
- Identify the two weakest things in your area and put a fix for one of them on the roadmap.
- Run your area independently, with your manager reviewing outcomes rather than steps.
- Improve one process or piece of tooling so the next person does the job faster than you did.
- Agree the next two quarters of objectives with clear, measurable success criteria.
How success is measured
No vague reviews — these are the things we'll actually talk about.
- Shipped UI matches the intended design without a long polish backlog
- The design system grows in components, not in one-off exceptions
- Accessibility basics — contrast, focus, target size — pass on every new surface
Who we're looking for
The full qualification list for this role. Very few people tick every line — apply if the essentials fit.
The core of the role — we read these closely.
- 5+ years of professional experience in design or a directly adjacent discipline
- Demonstrable ownership of work at the scope described above — ideally on a product used by paying customers
- A portfolio of shipped product work, not just concepts
- Strong typographic and layout judgement
- Comfort designing for complex, numeric, high-trust interfaces
- A portfolio showing shipped interface work, not concept reels — with your reasoning visible
- Expert Figma practice: components, variants, tokens and files another designer can pick up
- Interaction and motion craft: timing, easing, state transitions that clarify rather than decorate
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS constraints so your designs survive implementation
- Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA — contrast, focus order, reduced motion, keyboard paths
- Designing dense, data-heavy interfaces such as dashboards, charts or trading surfaces
- Comfort designing for trust: disclosure, honest numbers, no dark patterns
We hire on evidence; credentials are a signal, not a gate.
- Formal design education or a self-taught body of work at the same standard
- Writes clearly and thinks in public — decisions are documented before they are made
- Comfortable being wrong quickly: you look for the evidence that would disprove your own view
- Self-directed across time zones, with reliable follow-through and no need for chasing
- Holds a high bar on member-facing quality, including when nobody would notice the shortcut
- Treats compliance, honesty in marketing claims and risk disclosure as part of the craft, not overhead
- Able to work remote (americas / europe) with a stable overlap for one weekly team sync
- Available for full-time work and a reliable home or co-working setup
- Fluent professional English, written and spoken
- Willing to complete a paid, time-boxed craft exercise as part of the process
Nice to have
Genuinely optional — strong candidates rarely tick every box.
- Fintech or trading products
- Motion design
- Front-end literacy
Compensation and benefits
$110k – $150k — the band is set by level, published up front and paid the same regardless of how hard you negotiate. Reviewed annually, plus an out-of-cycle review if your scope changes.
- Fully remote, async-first — we optimise for deep work, not meeting attendance
- Competitive base plus performance bonus tied to shipped outcomes
- Private medical cover (US/UK) and a health stipend elsewhere
- £/$2,000 annual learning budget for research, data and conferences
- Top-spec hardware, multi-monitor setup and VPS/data subscriptions covered
- 28 days paid leave plus local public holidays
How hiring works
Five stages, roughly ten days end to end.
- 01Intro call (30 min) — your background, what you want to build next
- 02Craft interview (60 min) — a real problem from our backlog, no whiteboard trivia
- 03Paid take-home or working session (4–6 hrs, compensated)
- 04Team conversation with two people you'd work with daily
- 05Offer, usually within 10 days of the first call
We are looking for restraint, typographic control and shipping designs that survive contact with code. Everything in our process is designed to surface that rather than test recall.
The craft interview uses a real, recent problem from our backlog. You may use any resource you would use on the job, including documentation and AI tools — we care how you think, not what you memorised.
Take-home work is paid at a fair hourly rate and capped so it never eats a weekend.
You will get a decision, with reasons, after every stage. We do not ghost.