Senior Staff Product Designer, Investing

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• Create structure and drive outcomes for high-ambiguity, high-complexity work, including organizing and driving design sprints, upleveling strategy and craft, designing and delivering world-class designs
• Become a point person for all new investing initiatives, with an in-depth understanding of current and future endeavors
• Use design to accelerate strategic decision-making by harnessing skills such as rapid prototyping and broad design exploration
• Deliver solutions that are polished, scalable and support the future evolution of the platform

Overall

• Drive culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, creating an inclusive environment, and defining new patterns and processes to mature the design team
• Ensure positive and productive collaboration by partnering with pm, eng, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Investing products and Wealthfront
• Help innovate and scale as a company by partnering with leaders across Wealthfront. Identify and pursue impactful ideas on everything from what we build to how we work, such that we are able to learn as quickly and “lean-ly” as possible
• Contribute to the development of the design team by assisting with hiring, guiding the work, mentorship, cultivating excellence, and building an inclusive culture

Skills and experience

• 8+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company
• Experience working in consumer tech companies shipping exceptional quality products in a fast paced environment
• A portfolio with a range of UX  challenges that demonstrate solutions that clearly lead to streamlined customer experiences for web and mobile
• Naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech
• Models a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
• Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally in a clear and engaging manner to senior leaders
• Ability to lead and facilitate workshops with cross functional partners to refine exploratory strategies (i.e. design sprints.) 
• Ability to think strategically and shape the user experience overall, beyond just design. 
• Confidence working in an iterative, agile environment, and can quickly tailor and design effective, appropriate design approaches within constraints
• You’re an exceptional product thinker who takes a deep interest in understanding the business
• You have a proven track record setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind a vision, translating a vision into roadmap, and ensuring your team ships high quality experiences to bring the team’s vision to customers
• You have a collaborative mindset, with experience working across disciplines and with multiple stakeholders (ex: product, research, content designers, business leaders, and engineers)
• Experience mentoring and leading product designers to evolve their strategic thinking, and approach to product design craft and execution
• You know how to effectively use tools such as user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills and design principles
• A self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity
• Bonus: experience building modern fintech products

Mindset that excels at Wealthfront

• Approaching problems with curiosity and intellectual rigor
• Taking a learning-based approach: leveraging research, data, and experimentation to build confidence around decisions and assumptions
• Critically evaluating customer and business trade-offs
• Transforming complexity or ambiguity into clarity
• Driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
• Putting the company and the team first
• Going above and beyond to make the people around you successful
• Being enterprising and self-driven: moving with urgency, being solutions-oriented
• Being passionate our clients and our business
• Being excited to learn and grow with the company.