Senior Staff Product Designer - Investing

📋 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!