Senior Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Wealthfront as a Senior Staff Product Designer to lead design for new investing products. Reporting to the Design Director, you'll create industry-leading experiences and simplify complex financial concepts. This role requires strong collaboration, scalability thinking, and a high standard for design execution. You'll be a key player in expanding Wealthfront's client services for long-term wealth building. Success demands deep problem-solving, transforming complex issues into elegant solutions, and a passion for all aspects of product experience. Wealthfront is a remote-first team, open to US-based candidates, offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

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

Responsibilities

• 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
• Become a point person for all new investing initiatives, with an in-depth understanding of current and future endeavors
• Use design to accelerate strategic decision-making by harnessing skills such as rapid prototyping and broad design exploration
• Deliver solutions that are polished, scalable and support the future evolution of the platform
• Drive culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, creating an inclusive environment, and defining new patterns and processes to mature the design team
• Ensure positive and productive collaboration by partnering with pm, eng, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Investing products and Wealthfront
• Help 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
• Contribute to the development of the design team by assisting with hiring, guiding the work, mentorship, cultivating excellence, and building an inclusive culture

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus: experience building modern fintech products

Benefits

• Estimated annual salary: ~ $240,000 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 !
• We’re a remote-first team and open to candidates in the US