Senior Staff Product Designer - Investing Platforms

Wealthfront; United States; Remote; USD 216,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity

Discretionary bonus

Medical benefits

401k matching

Job summary

Wealthfront is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer to lead design for Investing products, reporting to the Design Director for Self-Directed Investing. This role emphasizes strategy, scalable systems, and high-fidelity craft to deliver delightful financial user experiences.

The candidate will drive design sprints, collaborate with engineering, product management, research, and compliance, and scale the design organization with inclusive leadership and strong execution.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally to senior leaders and executives.
• A self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity.
• Ability to think strategically and shape the user experience overall, beyond just design.

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 the go-to designer for 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.
• 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 efficiently as possible.
• Uphold culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, bolstering an inclusive environment, 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

Skills

Product design

Consumer fintech

Strategic thinking

Prototyping

Job description

Wealthfront is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer to lead design for Investing products, reporting to the Design Director for Self-Directed Investing. This role emphasizes strategy, scalable systems, and high-fidelity craft to deliver delightful financial user experiences.

The candidate will drive design sprints, collaborate with engineering, product management, research, and compliance, and scale the design organization with inclusive leadership and strong execution.