Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer. This role is ideal for an experienced designer who deeply loves the craft of making great products for our clients. They will work across design systems and embed with specific product teams on high-leverage projects. This is for someone who is excited about having impact through defining great patterns, systems, and tooling that uplevel the work of the design team AND developing simple, delightful products and features.
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.
Key responsibilities
1. Design Systems
-Defining quality for design at Wealthfront by ensuring our Design System is principled, elegant, and impactful.
-Product initiatives include key components, product and content design patterns, accessibility, tooling, etc. to uplevel and improve efficiency for design and engineering, creating consistent, high quality, and performant experiences for our clients.
2. Support high-impact work happening across the company
-Act in leadership or support capacity for important projects.
-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.
-Work in close partnership with cross-functional partners and other designers.
-Connect dots across related client needs and projects.
-Mentor other designers, particularly around craft.
3. Overall
-Partnering with pm, eng, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Design Systems and Wealthfront.
-Contribute to the development of the design team by assisting with hiring, guiding the work, mentorship, cultivating excellence, and building an inclusive culture.
-Helping us 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.
Skills and experience
- 10+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company
- You know how to drive high-quality decisions
- You’re an exceptional product thinker who understands 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
- Your have strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- 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
- You model a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
- You are naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech
- 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
- Taking a craft-led management mindset
- 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: ~ $225,000 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.
