Senior Staff Product Designer, Investing
Job Description
Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer to drive design for our newest Investing products, who will report directly to the Design Director. This role is ideal for an experienced designer who is excited about developing industry-leading experiences, and simplifying complexity. Wealthfront pioneered automated investing by offering broad access to sophisticated investing strategies at a fraction of the cost of traditional financial advisers. Our mission is to build a financial system that favors people over institutions. On this team, you would be a key part of expanding the ways we help our clients build long-term wealth through saving and investing.Â
Success in this role will require strong collaboration skills, ability to think in scalable systems/platforms, and a high bar for craft & execution. Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details and going deep to transform complex problems into elegant solutions. We’re seeking a designer who cares deeply about all aspects of a great product experience, from strategy to pattern to pixel.Â
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A passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products is highly desirable. Growing and managing your wealth is fundamental to being able to build the life you want with the people who matter most. This is a unique opportunity to be at the center of charting the next generation of technology innovation in investing products. If this gets you excited, we want to hear from you!
Design at Wealthfront
Designers at Wealthfront are innovative, creative, strategic, and detail-oriented. We transform complex technology and concepts into clear, simple, and actionable experiences. It takes skill to make financial products appear simple. Simplicity is what empowers our clients to build long-term wealth on their own terms.
Designers at Wealthfront define problems, new opportunities and solutions. We use data, insights, and behavioral psychology. We understand and consult on our technology. We connect everything we do to our clients and our business. We actively collaborate with engineers, product managers, researchers, data scientists, legal, and compliance. We’re making big bets. Innovation is encouraged. We embrace learning. As such, we care much more about the magnitude of success versus percentage of times we are successful.Â
At Wealthfront, Design is an equal partner to Engineering and Product. It plays an important role in the executive staff that collectively makes all critical strategic decisions. As a leader of your craft, your role will be to model this, develop these skills in your design teams, and contribute to the company-level design organization in partnership with the design leadership team.Â
We’re a remote-first team and open to candidates in the US.
New investing products
- 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 UXÂ 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.)Â
- Ability to think strategically and shape the user experience overall, beyond just design.Â
- 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.
Estimated annual salary: ~ $240,000 USD plus equity and discretionary bonus
Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!
About Wealthfront
Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.
We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business. By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, we've expanded to a full suite of products designed to help our clients turn their savings into long-term wealth, including:
• A Cash Account that, through our partner banks, offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, while providing instant and secure access to your money with no account fees and a full suite of checking features.
• A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
• Multiple automated investing portfolios designed to unlock tax savings through sophisticated strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing—which we offer at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums.
Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $80 billion of their hard earned savings—and we're far from done. If you’re inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let’s talk!
For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Disclosures: All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile. Wealthfront doesn’t provide tax advice. The Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), Member of FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance. Investment management and advisory services–which are not FDIC insured–are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser. The checking features offered in the Wealthfront Cash Account are provided by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the Deposit Account Agreement for details.
By “award-winning products”, please refer to www.wealthfront.com/reviews for more information. Wealthfront Corporation oversees Total Client Assets and Trusted Clients through Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage. Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wealthfront Corporation.
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