United States onlyAbout the role
Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer to drive design for our Cash product—our much loved high-yield savings and checking experience. Cash is the hub of Wealthfront’s financial ecosystem; clients love it for its instant money movement, joint account access, and the way it simplifies earning more with their cash. This role reports directly to a Design Director and is built for an experienced designer who is energized by simplifying complexity and crafting experiences as a zealous advocate for our clients.
Wealthfront pioneered automated investing by offering broad access to sophisticated investing strategies at a fraction of the cost of traditional financial advisers. That formed the beginning of a much broader vision for how our products can serve our mission to build a financial system that favors people over institutions. Since then, we’ve continued to expand the ways we help our clients build long-term wealth through saving, investing, and more.
As a Senior Staff designer on the Cash team, you will be a key part of expanding how we help clients build long-term wealth by identifying new opportunities across teams and surfaces. You won't just be designing in a silo; you’ll be connecting the dots between Cash and the broader Wealthfront ecosystem to create a seamless financial home
Design at Wealthfront
Designers at Wealthfront transform complex financial technology into simple and delightful experiences. Our commitment to our clients and high bar for craft set us apart from traditional financial institutions, fostering trust with our clients and empowering them to build lasting wealth on their own terms.
We pride ourselves on our meticulous attention to detail, consistently striving for excellence in all areas of our craft. We place just as much emphasis on the words we use to communicate with our clients as we do the interactive elements of our experiences. This shows up in our team structures–we have nearly a 1:1 ratio of content designers to product designers. We understand how design plays an important role in the success of our business and we are active participants in various leadership forums.
Collaboration is at the core of our approach. We work closely with our counterparts in engineering, product management, research, data science, legal, and compliance to define opportunities and explore solutions. We are equal partners in making strategic decisions and defining impactful roadmaps. We embrace a culture of continuous learning, prioritizing the magnitude of our successes over the percentage of times we are successful.
Most importantly, we love what we do! We are passionate about our mission, the financial technology space, and our clients. We take pride in our culture with a high bar, and a low ego.
We’re a remote friendly team and open to candidates in the US.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Outcomes for Cash: Bring clarity to high-ambiguity work, including driving design sprints and upleveling strategy for new Cash initiatives.
- Ecosystem Integration: Act as a connector for Cash-related initiatives, ensuring our savings and checking products connect intuitively with our broader suite of wealth-building tools.
- Accelerate Decisions: Use rapid prototyping and broad design exploration to help the team make strategic decisions confidently and quickly.
- Uplevel the Team: Uphold team health by leading design-wide initiatives, mentoring other designers, and defining new patterns and processes.
- Direct Leadership Visibility: Interface directly with the executive leadership team through biweekly reviews and strategic consultations.
Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
- You have a portfolio of high-quality work that shows your experience designing elegant and visually engaging solutions to complex problems that directly solve user needs.
- You take a structured, intentional approach to your work, leveraging frameworks and principles to articulate your design decisions.
- You have experience collaborating with product managers, researchers, and content designers in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
- You can demonstrate strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly.
- You’re a reliable self-starter who can steer their work with minimal oversight.
- You love designing for the entire product process from strategy to pixel—and can demonstrate a range of skills from high-level flows to detailed interactions.
- You’re an exceptional product thinker who takes a deep interest in understanding business and customer needs.
- You’re deeply curious and interested in fintech
Mindset that excels at Wealthfront
- Someone who embraces complexity, loves engaging in intellectually rigorous discussions, and critically evaluates trade-offs from a customer and business perspective
- Someone who transforms ambiguity into clarity and navigates the organization to drive alignment
- Someone who consistently thinks about the company and team first and has the resilience to work tough situations, steps up and leads the team
- Someone who goes above and beyond to make others around them successful
- Someone who is enterprising and demonstrates high agency. You don’t wait for change—you come to the table with proposals on how to improve
- Someone who deeply cares about learning and growing with the company
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