Lead end-to-end product design across financial products, shaping customer research, UX decisions, and design quality while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders as a senior individual contributor.
Senior Staff Product Designer, Investing
📜 Description
- Drive design outcomes for complex, ambiguous investing initiatives, from strategy through polished execution.
- Serve as the go-to designer for investing initiatives, building deep knowledge of current and future work.
- Use rapid prototyping and broad design exploration to accelerate strategic decisions.
- Partner with leaders to identify impactful product and process improvements and help the company learn efficiently.
- Lead design-team initiatives, strengthen inclusion, and develop patterns and processes.
- Collaborate across product, engineering, research, data science, legal, and compliance to prioritize and ship high-impact work.
🛠️ Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
- Experience shipping high-quality consumer technology products in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong strategic product thinking, business understanding, and ability to shape customer experience and roadmaps.
- Ability to communicate abstract design concepts clearly to senior leaders and executives.
- Able to manage multiple projects, navigate ambiguity, and align teams around a vision.
- Skilled in user experience methods, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, and problem framing.
- Models a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed.
- Investing passion or experience building consumer financial technology products is desirable.
✨ Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Wellness reimbursements
Full job description
About the role
Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer to help drive design for our Investing products, reporting to the Design Director for Self-Directed Investing. Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details to address complex problems with elegant solutions. We’re seeking a designer who cares deeply about all aspects of a great product experience, from strategy to pattern to pixel.
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.
Success in this role requires strong collaboration skills, the ability to think in scalable systems/platforms, and a high bar for craft & execution. 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 transform complex financial technology into simple and delightful experiences. Our commitment to our clients and high bar for craft set us apart from traditional financial institutions, fostering trust with our clients and empowering them to build lasting wealth on their own terms.
We pride ourselves on our meticulous attention to detail, consistently striving for excellence in all areas of our craft. We place just as much emphasis on the words we use to communicate with our clients as we do the interactive elements of our experiences. This shows up in our team structure–we have nearly a 1:1 ratio of content designers to product designers. We understand how design plays an important role in the success of our business and we are active participants in various leadership forums.
Collaboration is at the core of our approach. We work closely with our counterparts in engineering, product management, research, data science, legal, and compliance to define opportunities and explore solutions. We are equal partners in making strategic decisions and defining impactful roadmaps. We embrace a culture of continuous learning, prioritizing the magnitude of our successes over the percentage of times we are successful.
Most importantly, we love what we do! We are passionate about our mission, the financial technology space, and our clients. We take pride in our culture with a high bar, and a low ego.
Learn more about our design team at wealthfront.com/design
We’re a remote friendly team and open to candidates in the US.
Key responsibilities
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 the go-to designer for 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
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 efficiently as possible
Uphold culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, bolstering an inclusive environment, 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
About You
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
Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally in a clear and engaging manner to senior leaders and executives.
A self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity
Ability to think strategically and shape the user experience overall, beyond just design. 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 effectively use tools such as user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills and design principles.
Models a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
Bonus: experience building modern fintech products
Mindset that excels at Wealthfront
Someone who embraces complexity, loves engaging in intellectually rigorous discussions, and critically evaluates trade-offs from a customer and business perspective
Someone who transforms ambiguity into clarity and navigates the organization to drive alignment
Someone who consistently thinks about the company and team first and has the resilience to work through tough situations, steps up and leads the team
Someone who goes above and beyond to make others around them successful
Someone who is enterprising and demonstrates high agency. You don’t wait for change—you come to the table with proposals on how to improve
Someone who deeply cares about learning and growing with the company
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