Senior Product Designer - Cash and Money Movement
Wealthfront
Product, Design
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 29, 2024
Wealthfront is looking for a senior product designer to focus on making money movement fast, transparent, and seamless. We have a unique opportunity to solve this as we leverage new technologies and deep expertise building complex financial products to put people in control of their finances. If you love the puzzle of tackling complex problems and crafting elegant experiences that have a direct impact on people’s lives, this role is for you.
In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with the cross-functional leaders on your team to define the direction for your work while building on quantitative and qualitative research to craft useful and delightful experiences. Success in this role will require strong communication skills, critical thinking, a high bar for craft, and executional excellence.
Design at Wealthfront
Designers at Wealthfront are innovative, creative, strategic, and detail-oriented. We transform complex technology and concepts into clear, simple, and actionable experiences. It takes skill to make financial products appear simple. Simplicity is what empowers our clients to build long-term wealth on their own terms.
Designers at Wealthfront define problems, new opportunities and solutions. We use data, insights, and behavioral psychology. We understand and consult on our technology. We connect everything we do to our clients and our business. We actively collaborate with content designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, data scientists, legal, and compliance. We’re making big bets. Innovation is encouraged. We embrace learning. As such, we care much more about the magnitude of success versus percentage of times we are successful.
At Wealthfront, Design is an equal partner to Engineering and Product and plays an important role in the executive staff that collectively makes all critical strategic decisions.
We’re a remote-first team and open to candidates in the US.
About You
- 4+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
- A portfolio of high-quality work that shows your experience designing elegant and visually engaging solutions to complex problems that directly solve user needs.
- You take a structured, intentional approach to your work, leveraging frameworks and principles to articulate your design decisions.
- You have experience collaborating with product managers, researchers, and content designers in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
- You can demonstrate strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly.
- You’re a reliable self-starter who can lead multiple projects with minimal oversight.
- You love designing for the entire product process from strategy to pixel—and can demonstrate a range of skills from high-level flows to detailed interactions.
- You consider context and design for the entire user journey with a clear sense of the ultimate user and business outcomes you are trying to achieve.
- You’re a product thinker who takes a deep interest in leveraging business objectives, data, and user research to inspire your work.
Mindset that excels at Wealthfront
- Someone who embraces complexity, loves engaging in intellectually rigorous discussions, critically evaluates trade-off, both from a customer and business perspective
- Someone who turns ambiguity into clarity and navigates the organization to drive alignment
- Someone who consistently thinks about the company and team first and has the resilience to work tough situations, steps up and helps lead the team
- Someone who goes above and beyond to make others around them successful
- Someone who is enterprising and also demonstrates high agency. You don’t wait for change but instead move with urgency and come to the table with proposals on how to improve
- Someone who deeply cares about learning and growing with the company
Estimated annual salary range: $170k USD plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!