Senior Staff Product Designer, Wealthfront
Investing
$204-276k
+ Equity + Discretionary Bonus
Automated investment management
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Automated investment management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$204-276k
+ Equity + Discretionary Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- A portfolio with a range of UX challenges that demonstrate solutions that clearly lead to streamlined customer experiences for web and mobile
- Naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech
- Models a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
- Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally in a clear and engaging manner to senior leaders
- Ability to lead and facilitate workshops with cross functional partners to refine exploratory strategies (i.e. design sprints.)
- Ability to think strategically and shape the user experience overall, beyond just design
- Confidence working in an iterative, agile environment, and can quickly tailor and design effective, appropriate design approaches within constraints
- You’re an exceptional product thinker who takes a deep interest in understanding 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
- You have a collaborative mindset, with experience working across disciplines and with multiple stakeholders (ex: product, research, content designers, business leaders, and engineers)
- Experience mentoring and leading product designers to evolve their strategic thinking, and approach to product design craft and execution
- 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
- A self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity
- Bonus: experience building modern fintech products
What the job involves
- Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer to drive design for our newest Investing products, who will report directly to the Design Director.
- This role is ideal for an experienced designer who is excited about developing industry-leading experiences, and simplifying complexity. Wealthfront pioneered automated investing by offering broad access to sophisticated investing strategies at a fraction of the cost of traditional financial advisers
- Our mission is to build a financial system that favors people over institutions. On this team, you would be a key part of expanding the ways we help our clients build long-term wealth through saving and investing
- Success in this role will require strong collaboration skills, ability to think in scalable systems/platforms, and a high bar for craft & execution.
- Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details and going deep to transform complex problems into elegant solutions. We’re seeking a designer who cares deeply about all aspects of a great product experience, from strategy to pattern to pixel
- 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 a point person for all new 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
- Deliver solutions that are polished, scalable and support the future evolution of the platform
- Drive culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, creating an inclusive environment, and 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
- 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 “lean-ly” as possible
- Contribute to the development of the design team by assisting with hiring, guiding the work, mentorship, cultivating excellence, and building an inclusive culture
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, with more than $50B of assets under its management, Wealthfront achieved Unicorn status in September 2022. Wealthfront is diversifying its offerings, branching into high-interest checking accounts and investment advice.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
- 401(k)
- Medical/Vision/Dental insurance
- HSA contributions for high deductible plans
- Discretionary time off policy
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave (both parents)
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly wellness reimbursement
Company values
- Client-centricity: Wealthfront puts its clients first, providing personalized financial advice and investment management services to help them achieve their financial goals
- Transparency: Wealthfront values transparency in all aspects of its business, from its investment strategies to its fees and pricing
- Innovation: Wealthfront is committed to innovation, using cutting-edge technology to provide its clients with the best possible financial services and products
- Continuous learning: Wealthfront encourages its employees to continuously learn and grow, providing opportunities for professional development and advancement
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Dan Carroll
(CSO)They studied Finance and Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona before using this expertise to co-found Wealthfront in December 2008.
Andy Rachleff
(Executive Chairman)Prior to Wealthfront, they co-founded and was General Partner of Benchmark Capital, where they were responsible for investing in a number of successful companies including Equinix, Juniper Networks, and Opsware.
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