Product Manager, Core Experience

Acorns; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

401(k) matching

Flexible work location

Family benefits

Career development

Job summary

Acorns is seeking a Product Manager to build experiences that help millions save and invest, shaping the customer relationship across Home, core surfaces, and account management.

This remote-first role requires 5-7 years of PM experience and a customer-obsessed mindset, with a bias for speed and strong analytical rigor. You will lead cross-functional teams and run experiments to improve engagement and retention.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of product management experience building consumer experiences that drive repeat engagement.
• Customer-obsessed mindset with empathy for financial habit formation.
• Bias for speed and action with high quality craft.
• Strong analytical rigor and data-driven decision making.
• Technical fluency to understand systems behind features and tradeoffs.
• Hands-on with AI tools to prototype ideas and accelerate development.

Responsibilities

• Own surfaces that show financial progress and motivate customers to grow.
• Define a coherent engagement model across surfaces as one connected journey.
• Develop fluency in financial journey stages to identify impactful experiences.
• Lead end-to-end product work from discovery to delivery and iteration.
• Shape partner teams' involvement across shared surfaces to strengthen the journey.
• Lead cross-functional teams across design, engineering, data, legal/compliance, and marketing.
• Design and run experiments to test assumptions and drive long-term engagement.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven

AI tooling

Experimentation

Job description

Product Manager, Core Experience

Acorns is seeking a Product Manager to build the experiences that help millions of everyday people stay engaged in saving, investing, and building wealth. You will lead the product strategy across Home, core surfaces, and account management — shaping the experiences that define a customer’s ongoing relationship with Acorns. This role is for a builder with strong consumer product craft, someone who understands what motivates people throughout their financial journey and can translate that understanding into experiences that inspire lasting financial habits.

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

What you will do at Acorns:

• Own the surfaces that help customers see their financial progress, understand what matters next, and stay motivated to keep growing — anchored by Home as the heart of the customer relationship

• Define a coherent engagement model across these surfaces so customers experience Acorns as one connected journey, not a collection of individual products

• Develop deep fluency in how customer needs change across the financial journey — from getting started to building momentum, falling off track, and recovering — and use that understanding to identify the experiences that help customers keep progressing

• Lead product work end to end, from discovery and strategy through delivery, measurement, and iteration, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership

• Shape how partner teams show up across shared surfaces, ensuring new experiences strengthen the broader customer journey rather than fragment it

• Lead cross-functional teams across design, engineering, data, legal and compliance, and marketing to ship and iterate on experiences that deepen engagement and retention

• Design and run experiments to test assumptions, identify what meaningfully improves long-term engagement, and use those learnings to advance retention goals.

What you will bring to Acorns:

• 5-7 years of product management experience, with a track record of building consumer experiences that drive repeat engagement and deepen customer relationships over time.

• Heart-led and customer-obsessed, bringing genuine empathy to the work and a deep curiosity about what motivates people to build and sustain healthy financial habits

• Bias for speed and action, making sound decisions amid ambiguity and moving quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and craft.

• Proven analytical rigor, knowing which metrics matter, analyzing performance with depth, and using data to drive decisions and hold teams accountable

• Strong technical fluency, understanding the systems behind your features well enough to ask the right questions, make good tradeoffs, and ensure the right solution gets built

• Hands-on with AI tools, using them actively to prototype ideas, pressure-test scenarios, and synthesize research to accelerate the product development process

• Hunger to deliver game-changing products

• Exceptional drive and precision in delivery

• A belief that your work is tied to your life's mission

• Optimistic about the potential of societal change

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and stock options

• A comprehensive benefits package for you and your family

• Flexible work location, hours, and paid time off

• 401(k) matching

• Monthly Acorns account contribution & GoHenry account for your family

• Mindfulness and Financial Wellness resources, Headspace and Addition Wealth

• Acorns Career Development Program (Ongoing training sessions, development plans, development check-ins, Cornerstone’s online training platform)

• Roots Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders

• Community week onsite gatherings and various virtual events

• Talented and motivated team members who care deeply about one another, our mission, and our customers.

• The rare opportunity to create a new world. We inspire one another every day to do meaningful work that solves big societal challenges.

About Acorns:

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life‑stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 16 million people save & invest over $33 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

Compensation Information:

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $150,000 and $170,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including equity grants, and discretionary cash bonus awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Work Authorization:

Acorns participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov