Design Director - Cash and Money Movement

📋 Description

• Wealthfront is looking for a Design Director to support our Cash area.

• Reporting directly to the Design Director for the Cash and Growth, this role is ideal for the design leader who enjoys a mix of direct impact on vision and strategy and unlocking impact by empowering the team they support.

• This role is best suited for someone who loves having impact through the scope and quality of their work rather than through the number of people they manage.

• Success in this role will require strong people management and communication skills as well as strategic thinking, vision facilitation, a high bar for craft, and executional excellence.

• Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details and going deep to untangle complex problems.

• We’re seeking a design leader who cares deeply about all phases of product development—from defining new opportunities to shipped pixels.

• The Cash area aims to make organizing and managing finances dead simple.

• This covers everything from core platform capabilities like money movement, to getting people instant access to their savings to confidently make a down payment, to helping a couple think through their shared financial picture.

• We leverage technology to build sophisticated financial products that put people in control of their finances.

• If you love tackling complex problems and crafting elegant experiences that have a direct impact on people’s lives, we want to hear from you!

• 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 the organization, your role will be to model this, develop these skills in your design teams, and contribute to the company-level design organization as a member of the design leadership team.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of design management experience in a software company with design embedded as part of cross-functional product development teams

• 10+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company

• You know when and how to get into the details to drive high-quality decisions

• You’re an exceptional product thinker who understands how to drive business business impact through design

• You have a proven track record setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind a vision, translating a vision into a prioritized roadmap, and ensuring your team ships high quality experiences to bring the team’s vision to customers

• You have strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills

• You’ve helped your teams grow in their creative practice by teaching them 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’ve hired and grown a diverse team

• You’ve developed a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed

• You’ve managed performance across a spectrum of abilities and contexts

• You are naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech

• 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!