Senior Staff Product Designer - Investing

January 25

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Wealthfront

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Wealthfront is a financial technology company specializing in automated investment services and financial planning tools. It offers a range of services including automated bond ladders, cash management with a competitive annual percentage yield, and comprehensive long-term investment strategies utilizing diversified index funds. Wealthfront's platform is recognized for its ease of use and efficient automation in managing savings, investments, and retirement funds. The company's offerings include FDIC-insured cash accounts, advisory services, tax-loss harvesting, and personalized investment portfolios. Wealthfront aims to help individuals grow their wealth through accessible, low-cost financial solutions tailored to individual risk preferences and financial goals.

personal finance • investment management • portfolio management • software • financial planning

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $69.7M Convertible Note on 2022-09

📋 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. • 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!

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • vision • dental • 401K plan • generous time off • parental leave • wellness reimbursements • professional development • employee investing discount • and more!