Senior Product Designer, Community Building

Acorns; United States; Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work location

401(k) matching

Family accounts

Mindfulness resources

Career development

Leadership program

Community events

Job summary

Acorns, the financial wellness app, is building a new Community product team from scratch. As Senior Product Designer, you’ll own end-to-end design for engagement loops, social sharing, and habit-forming experiences that drive growth for millions of first-time investors.

You'll work directly with the CEO, a Senior Product Manager, and a frontend/engineering team to ship features end-to-end, set the quality bar, and ensure the product feels trustworthy and alive to a diverse audience.

Qualifications

• Designed engagement or retention features at a social, gaming, or high-growth consumer app (streaks, sharing flows, social proof, habit loops).
• Owned the full design process end-to-end: discovery, concept, high-fidelity design, and shipped product.
• Translated ambiguous briefs into sharp, opinionated product directions without waiting to be told what to build.
• Sweated the smallest details across all areas of the product and pushed back when implementation fell short of the intent.
• Worked on a small, cross-functional team with high ownership and low process overhead.
• Built or contributed to a design system that scaled across a product.

Responsibilities

• Design the engagement loops, sharing moments, and habit-forming mechanics that get people genuinely hooked on saving.
• Set the quality bar for the Community product including micro-interactions, feel, and delight.
• Create a product experience that brings Acorns’ central idea to life for a diverse audience.
• Move fast and ship, learn by building, and be central to rapid iteration.
• Collaborate with engineering and product to ensure design intent survives to production.

Skills

Engagement loops

Sharing flows

Habit loops

End-to-end design

Cross-functional collaboration

Design system

Job description

The Opportunity

Acorns, the financial wellness app, is building a new Community product team from scratch. This is a small, senior group with a single mandate: Get people addicted to saving by unlocking network effects inside Acorns. This team understands how to create engagement loops, virality, and habit formation. We want people who’ve mastered those mechanics and are ready to use them for something that improves people’s lives.

As the Senior Product Designer on this team, you’ll be the design voice of a product built to make saving feel as compelling as the best social and gaming apps in the world. You’ll work directly with the CEO, a Senior Product Manager and Senior engineering team to design the engagement loops, social sharing mechanics, and habit-forming experiences that drive organic growth at Acorns.

This is end-to-end ownership from early concept through shipped product on features that will reach millions of people who are often investing for the first time.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Design the engagement loops, sharing moments, and habit-forming mechanics that get people genuinely hooked on saving and bring Acorns into their households


• Set the quality bar for the Community product including the micro-interactions, the feel, and the delight on a team where design is a competitive advantage


• Create a product experience that brings to life the central idea of Acorns - from tiny acorns mighty oaks do grow - and feels natural, trustworthy, and alive for a diverse audience that is often new to investing


• This team moves fast and ships, learns by building, and you’ll be central to how quickly we find what works


• Operate with agility together with engineering and product to make sure design intent survives to production, every time

Some Things You’ve Likely Done in the Past

• Designed engagement or retention features at a social, gaming, or high-growth consumer app (streaks, sharing flows, social proof, habit loops) and can point to outcomes


• Owned the full design process end-to-end: discovery, concept, high-fidelity design, and shipped product


• Translated ambiguous briefs into sharp, opinionated product directions without waiting to be told what to build


• Sweated the smallest details across all areas of the product and pushed back when implementation fell short of the intent


• Worked on a small, cross-functional team with high ownership and low process overhead


• Built or contributed to a design system that scaled across a product

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 the financial wellness company helping everyday Americans grow their 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 America's Best Financial Services of 2026 by TIME https://time.com/7368951/americas-best-financial-services-2026/, Acorns has served over 16 million people, and helped customers 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 $174,800 and $205,700/year plus variable compensation; 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:

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