Senior Staff Product Designer, Wealthfront
Design Systems
$225k
Plus equity and discretionary bonus
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Automated investment management
Job no longer available
Automated investment management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$225k
Plus equity and discretionary bonus
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for an experienced designer who deeply loves the craft of making great products for our clients
- This is for someone who is excited about having impact through defining great patterns, systems, and tooling that uplevel the work of the design team AND developing simple, delightful products and features
- Success in this role will require strong collaboration skills, ability to think in scalable systems/platforms, and a high bar for craft & execution
- We’re seeking a designer who cares deeply about all aspects of a great product experience, from strategy to pattern to pixel
- A passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products is highly desirable
- 10+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company
- You know how to drive high-quality decisions
- You’re an exceptional product thinker who understands 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
- Your have strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- 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
- You model a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
- You are naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech
- Bonus: experience building modern fintech products
- Approaching problems with curiosity and intellectual rigor
- Taking a learning-based approach: leveraging research, data, and experimentation to build confidence around decisions and assumptions
- Critically evaluating customer and business trade-offs
- Transforming complexity or ambiguity into clarity
- Taking a craft-led management mindset
- Driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
- Putting the company and the team first
- Going above and beyond to make the people around you successful
- Being enterprising and self-driven: moving with urgency, being solutions-oriented
- Being passionate our clients and our business
- Being excited to learn and grow with the company
What the job involves
- Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer
- They will work across design systems and embed with specific product teams on high-leverage projects
- Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details and going deep to transform complex problems into elegant solutions
- This is a unique opportunity to be at the center of charting the next generation of technology innovation in investing products
- Defining quality for design at Wealthfront by ensuring our Design System is principled, elegant, and impactful
- Product initiatives include key components, product and content design patterns, accessibility, tooling, etc. to uplevel and improve efficiency for design and engineering, creating consistent, high quality, and performant experiences for our clients
- Act in leadership or support capacity for important projects
- 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
- Work in close partnership with cross-functional partners and other designers
- Connect dots across related client needs and projects
- Mentor other designers, particularly around craft
- Partnering with pm, eng, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Design Systems and Wealthfront
- Contribute to the development of the design team by assisting with hiring, guiding the work, mentorship, cultivating excellence, and building an inclusive culture
- Helping us 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
Our take
Wealthfront's platform takes the hassle and stress out of investing, financial planning, borrowing, and saving with automated services and financial advice. Its robo-advisor allows customers to set a financial limit on their accounts, anything above the limit is moved into an investment account or another account chosen by the customer.
Indeed, it has some similarities to round-up apps like Acorn, which round up purchases and put the spare change into savings. There are other companies working on robo-advisors too, such as Morgan Stanley and Betterment.
Nonetheless, with an impressive and steadily increasing list of clients, and more than $50B of assets under its management, Wealthfront achieved Unicorn status in September 2022. Now it is diversifying its offerings, branching into high-interest checking accounts and investment advice and reportedly seeking a valuation of up to $2.05B in its upcoming IPO, a move that puts the company in a strong position for even more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2018
$75m
SERIES E
Oct 2014
$64m
SERIES D
Total funding: $204.5m
Company benefits
- Lunch and snacks on the house: Enjoy lunches, snacks, coffee and stipends to go out to lunch with coworkers.
- More tools in your toolbox: Join one of our affinity groups, attend leadership trainings and receive 1:1 mentorship. We give team members a quarterly learning stipend so we can all continue to grow and improve.
- Commuting made easy: We’re a short walk from the Palo Alto Caltrain and all employees receive a Caltrain pass. Our co-working space in San Francisco is great for days when you need to work from the city. An additional transportation stipend and relocation bonuses make getting to the office a breeze.
- Prioritize Wellness: Stay happy and healthy however you choose with our monthly wellness reimbursement. You define what wellness means for you — a massage, running sneakers, or dance classes? It’s your call.
- Work/life balance (no, really): We have flexible working hours, a discretionary time off policy and offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave (both parents). We work hard, but we rejuvenate too.
- Your health matters: We provide comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your family, including HSA contributions for high deductible plans.
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Dan Carroll
(Founder & CSO)They studied Finance and Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona before using this expertise to co-found Wealthfront in December 2008.
David Fortunato
(CEO)David has been at Wealthfront since 2009, joining the company as CTO. He then became the President in 2019 and CEO in 2021.
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