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.
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.
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.
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.
We’re a remote-first team and open to candidates in the US.
New investing productsCreate 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 designsBecome a point person for all new investing initiatives, with an in-depth understanding of current and future endeavorsUse design to accelerate strategic decision-making by harnessing skills such as rapid prototyping and broad design explorationDeliver solutions that are polished, scalable and support the future evolution of the platformOverallDrive culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, creating an inclusive environment, and defining new patterns and processes to mature the design teamEnsure 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 WealthfrontHelp 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 possibleContribute to the development of the design team by assisting with hiring, guiding the work, mentorship, cultivating excellence, and building an inclusive cultureSkills and experience8+ years of product design experience in a consumer software companyExperience working in consumer tech companies shipping exceptional quality products in a fast paced environmentA portfolio with a range of UX challenges that demonstrate solutions that clearly lead to streamlined customer experiences for web and mobileNaturally curious and are deeply interested in fintechModels a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomedAbility to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally in a clear and engaging manner to senior leadersAbility 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 constraintsYou’re an exceptional product thinker who takes a deep interest in understanding the businessYou 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 customersYou 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 executionYou know how to effectively use tools such as user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills and design principlesA self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguityBonus: experience building modern fintech productsMindset that excels at WealthfrontApproaching problems with curiosity and intellectual rigorTaking a learning-based approach: leveraging research, data, and experimentation to build confidence around decisions and assumptionsCritically evaluating customer and business trade-offsTransforming complexity or ambiguity into clarityDriving alignment across teams and stakeholdersPutting the company and the team firstGoing above and beyond to make the people around you successfulBeing enterprising and self-driven: moving with urgency, being solutions-orientedBeing passionate our clients and our businessBeing 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
Wealthfront started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business, with the goal to unlock access to high quality investment advice for millions who were underserved by the traditional institutions. We built one of the first automated investment products that allows you to invest in a personalized portfolio of thousands of companies in seconds for a remarkably low fee. We then expanded. We now work with partner banks to offer exceptional banking features through a Wealthfront Brokerage Cash Account, which makes it remarkably easy for people to automate their finances end-to-end and eliminated the hassle of money management, all of which resulted in attracting more than $70 billion of our client’s hard earned money, pioneering the robo-advisor category and transforming the broader industry. And yet, we have a long way to go to achieve our mission to build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
Wealthfront’s vision is to make it delightfully easy to build long-term wealth on your own terms. This vision is more relevant than ever because millions more people are getting into the market early and investing their hard earned savings in a handful of stocks. While this is a great way to start, it is inconsistent with building long-term wealth. We want to empower young investors to expand their horizon, and easily explore and execute on a wider range of investing strategies, make informed investment decisions that are consistent with their values and beliefs while also making it effortless to grow and compound their savings exponentially in a way that’s transformational to their lives and their long-term future.
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.
