Senior Product Designer, Acorns
Community Building
$174.8-205.7k
+ Stock Options
Saving & investing app
Be an early applicant
Saving & investing app
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$174.8-205.7k
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering step of micro-investing.
Role
Who you are
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Acorns is an investment app for individuals and families, focusing on smaller scale investments, savings and retirement planning. The app allows you to set up accounts for yourself and your family members and, with money saving advice built in, its aim is to encourage saving.
Currently used by more than 8 million people, it uses bank-level security and offers a VISA credit card with the option to automatically save the ‘change’ from purchases. While there are certainly plenty of other financial wellness apps out there, Acorn sets itself apart with investment and savings products aimed at financially educating children. It's enhanced its services through smart acquisitions, such as student loan debt management company Pillar, AI-based debt reduction startup Harvest, and retirement account company Vault.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2022
$300m
SERIES F
Jan 2019
$105m
SERIES E
Total funding: $504m
Company benefits
- Healthcare - Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and more
- 401k
- Equity
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Unlimited Udemy classes
- Monthly wellness hour and virtual yoga classes
- Flexible Work Hours
- Quarterly Team Outings
- Personal Development Plans
- Annual Compensation Reviews
- Recognition - Using a tool called Reflektive, we like to give shout-outs to teammates who raise the bar
- Bi-Weekly 1:1s
- MacBooks
- Commuter Benefits
- Flexible Work Options
Company HQ
Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Noah Kerner
(CEO & Chairman)Also Co-Founder at Give Kids Art. Previously Board Member at Save The Music and was the Co-Founder at Say.
Jeffrey Cruttenden
(Co-Founder)They were a Partner at Cruttenden Partners, before co-founding Acorns with Walter in February 2012. In April 2017, they also co-founded Say.
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