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We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a financial education company with a spendfulness app that helps people all over the world spend their money (guilt-free!) on what matters most to them. For over 20 years, YNAB’s proven method has been changing lives—and people can’t stop telling their friends about the difference it’s made. Think: debt paid off, marriages strengthened, goals achieved, stress erased, and sleep finally restored. But don’t just take our word for it—dive into our vibrant communities on Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit (really!) or skim through our glowing app reviews. You’ll quickly see why people rave about YNAB and why we’re so passionate about creating something that truly changes lives for the better.
Our Marketing team loves spreading the word about YNAB, and eye-catching designs are an integral part of that—which is where you come in! You’ll join our team of designers, who have a special talent for crafting designs that effectively communicate our message, represent our brand, and make both current and potential YNABers go :heart-eyes:. You’re the person we’re looking for if you’re curious to learn new things, happy to roll up your sleeves and help wherever needed, and jazzed to work on a brand that is (humbly) playful, yet sophisticated.
We have two hard requirements for this role—you must:
Beyond that, we’re open-minded. We value a diversity of experience and skills at YNAB, and every career path is different. That said, it may help you be successful in this role if you also have:
That’s a super brief intro to what we’re looking for. But first, you need to know if you’ll even like working with us. We’d love to share more about YNAB, and then we’ll get into (many) more details about this role.
YNAB started in 2004 and we haven’t taken any outside funding—we’re established, profitable, and in this for the long haul. We have one overarching requirement when it comes to joining our team: our original Core Value Manifesto has to really click with you. If you’re nodding emphatically while reading it, you’ll probably really like it here, and we can’t wait to hear from you!
We live our Core Values every day at YNAB, and we mean it when we say we are an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, abilities, beliefs, and experiences is critical to our success, and we are passionate about creating a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative environment for all employees. All are encouraged to apply as we continue to grow a smart, hard-working, and diverse team that loves working together to build something that matters.
We also work really hard, together, to make working at YNAB an amazing experience, and we’re (humbly) proud to have received many of Fortune’s “great place to work” awards over the last several years, including #1 two years in a row! We have a team full of truly exceptional people—the kind you’ll be excited to work with. We’d love to introduce you to a few of them!
We mentioned that you’d be joining a team of designers, so we’d love to introduce you to some of them: Meet Andrea, Lauren, Tristan, and Casey!
Andrea will be your manager. She joined the product design team in 2018 and jumped over to the marketing team last year just in time for the brand refresh! With a career steeped in user experience, she’s found her dream job where creativity and helping others collide. When she’s not obsessing over pixels and fan fests, you’ll find this compulsive doodler soaking up live music, art shows, and ocean waves.
Lauren joined YNAB in 2016 and has loved watching the Marketing team grow from a scrappy 3-person squad to a several-dozen-strong powerhouse of creativity. She has a passion for color and branding, dabbles in hand lettering and digital painting, and splits her free time between playing video games, writing her latest book, romping around with various TTRPG groups, and planning her next elaborate Halloween costume. If it requires whimsy and imagination, she’s in.
Tristan joined the marketing design team in 2017 as a motion designer, specializing in bringing visuals to life through animation. Outside of work, he’s an award-winning freelance illustrator who shares insights on the challenges of being an artist through social media videos, offering advice and perspective to fellow creatives.
Casey joined the Marketing Design team in 2021 and quickly made her way over to the YNAB marketing site (or as she likes to call it, YNAB’s storefront). She makes sure the site looks its best and obsesses over how to multiply the efforts of the rest of the marketing team by optimizing it to capture the most YNAB trials possible. When she’s not in front of her laptop using Webflow, she’s behind a camera or doing a puzzle.
You’ll also work closely with other marketers—like Reema (our Marketing Operations Lead), Rachel (our Content Marketing Manager), Kelly (our Production Manager), Ashley (our Video Content Manager), and Janelle (our Referral Programs Manager)—and benefit from the fun and fearless leadership of Lindsey (our Head of Marketing) and Dylan (our Director of Design). Whew. We are all excited for you to join us!
Still with us? Now that you’ve met some of your potential future teammates, let’s talk more about YNAB as a company. Here’s how we operate:
We’ve always been a fully remote team, and have people all over the world. For this particular position, however, we’re looking for someone within +/- two hours of Central Time, due to the high amount of synchronous coordination needed with the rest of the team. Anywhere within those time zones is okay, though. Just make sure you have a reliable internet connection.
We’ve adopted a four-day work week (still 100% paid!) and rarely work more than that. There are occasions and seasons where things get busy and people put some extra time in—but then we encourage them to take some extra time off, too. We work hard and smart and care deeply about what we do, but we also love our families and about 2,000 other things. We have perspective and, ultimately, we think it makes us—and our work—even better.
We’re fully remote, so a lot of our work is done asynchronously, but we love working together in real time when it makes sense. We try to schedule most meetings between 12–3 pm Eastern time Monday–Thursday. Outside of your meetings, we trust you to set your own schedule by balancing your team’s needs with your own needs. You don’t need to ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to see the doctor, or be “active” on Slack if you’re working deeply on a project. We look at what you accomplish—not when or how long you're in front of a computer.
We want you to take vacation. In fact, we have a minimum vacation policy of three weeks per year. Five weeks feels about right (plus two extra weeks for our company-wide December Break). It’s important to get plenty of downtime and to get out and do something. We’ll look forward to seeing pictures of your adventures in our #office-wall Slack channel!
Some of our best work (and bonding!) is done in person. You’ll generally have the opportunity to meet with your YNAB teammates at least once a year, at a small-team work-focused meetup or at our company retreat. At the YNAB retreat, we love to catch up on spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Best Western conference room. Just kidding. (It’s actually hard to write that sentence, even knowing it’s a joke.) So far, we’ve gone to Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin in the mountains, a beach house in the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, Laguna Beach, Palm Springs, and most recently, Cape Cod. We work together, play together, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a team and company. Every time we meet up, we leave refreshed, motivated, and excited for the year ahead together.
We’re serious about helping you improve your craft. It’s one of our favorite spending categories, and it’s the most important work of our managers. Think conferences, coaches, online courses and subscriptions, dedicated time away from work to learn something new… It's really up to you and your manager. We love to see our people grow!
Our team is spread all over the world—mostly in the United States, but also in the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and several other countries. Team members who live in the US or UK are set up as employees, and those who live in other countries set themselves up as independent contractors. No matter where you live, you’re eligible for our generous paid family leave, vacation, holidays, and sick time.
If you’re in the US, we also offer fantastic medical, dental, and vision insurance, where we cover 100% of the premium for you and your family. No need to check your vision, you read that right—100%. (Although if you did need to check your vision, NBD, we’ve got you covered!) We also have a Traditional and Roth 401(k) option, where YNAB matches your contributions up to six percent, and matches vest immediately. (Are you a personal finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He set up YNAB’s 401k to have the lowest fee structure possible, where all plan costs are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The investment funds available are fantastic, passively-managed, ultra low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Trust us, it’s awesome.)
At YNAB, we’re committed to equitable, market-driven, data-based compensation and we aim to offer a competitive benefits package to our team members. The starting salary for this role will be between $72,000 - $87,000 USD annually (with the top of that range reserved only for the most experienced candidates). If we decide to make you an offer, we’ll determine the most appropriate number based on what we know about your experience and competency for the role, and then we’ll make you our best offer and hope that you accept! If you join our team, you’ll also be eligible for a raise once a year and for our profit-share twice a year. (YNAB wins, you win—that kind of thing.)
If this sounds like your ideal environment, read on because now we want to talk about you. You will play a big, big part in helping the YNAB brand come to life and reach wider audiences. We’ll only say that six more times.
You’re the designer we’re looking for if you’re creative, detail-oriented, and collaborative, with a strong understanding of design principles, visual storytelling, and audience engagement strategies, plus excellent communication and time management skills in a remote environment. (That’s it, huh? Honestly, we bet you’re all that and a bag of chips.)
Your main responsibilities will be to design engaging visual communications, support our brand identity, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure that your designs effectively support our company goals.
That’s eight (long) bullet points, but let’s still say that your success as a designer at YNAB will depend on you approaching design as holistic problem-solving for both creative and business goals. You’ll work collaboratively and listen to ideas, questions, and critiques from teammates with grace and patience. At the same time, you know your stuff and can eloquently and logically explain your design decisions. This type of exchange is critical to both our success and yours—sharing ideas and being open to the brilliance of others is how we arrive at the best solutions, together. If this sounds like your kind of place, we can’t wait to hear from you.
Apply here (including what’s listed below) by Sunday, March 9th @ 11:59pm PT. Firm. It’s a real deadline. The kind you love.
We’re excited to hear from you!
P.S. If you’re not interested in this position right now, but know someone who might be, we’d appreciate you passing this along!
