Senior Staff Product Designer, Investing

Wealthfront•Palo Alto, CA

8d•$240,000

About The Position

Wealthfront is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer to drive design for its Investing products. Reporting to the Design Director for Self-Directed Investing, this designer will help expand how Wealthfront supports clients in building long-term wealth through saving and investing. The role calls for someone who can work through complex financial-product challenges with thoughtful, elegant solutions, and who cares about the full product experience—from strategy and patterns to pixel-level execution. The designer will bring structure to ambiguous, complex work; help set strategic direction; and deliver high-quality designs. They will be a key design partner for investing initiatives, collaborating with leaders and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, make decisions, and ship impactful products. They will also contribute to the growth and effectiveness of the design organization by leading team-wide initiatives, supporting an inclusive culture, and maturing its patterns and processes. Wealthfront’s design team focuses on making complex financial technology simple and delightful. Designers work closely with product management, engineering, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other partners, contributing to strategic decisions and roadmaps. The company describes the team culture as high-bar and low-ego, with a focus on craft, collaboration, and continuous learning. The team is remote-friendly and open to candidates in the US.

Requirements

At least 8 years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
Experience working at consumer technology companies and shipping high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to communicate abstract design concepts clearly and engagingly, visually and verbally, to senior leaders and executives.
Ability to manage multiple projects across teams, work independently, and navigate ambiguity.
Strategic thinking and ability to shape the overall user experience beyond design, with a strong interest in understanding the business.
Track record of setting a vision for customer experiences, inspiring others to support it, translating it into a roadmap, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
Effective use of user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills, and design principles.
Ability to model a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed.
Ability to embrace complexity, evaluate trade-offs from customer and business perspectives, turn ambiguity into clarity, and build organizational alignment.
Resilience, high agency, willingness to lead and improve how the team works, and commitment to helping others succeed and growing with the company.

Nice To Haves

Experience building modern fintech products.
Passion for investing.

Responsibilities

Create structure and drive outcomes for high-ambiguity, high-complexity work, including organizing and driving design sprints, upleveling strategy and craft, and 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 rapid prototyping and broad design exploration to accelerate strategic decision-making.
Partner with Wealthfront leaders to identify and pursue impactful ideas about what the company builds and how it works, supporting faster and more efficient learning.
Lead design-team-wide initiatives, bolster an inclusive environment, and define patterns and processes to mature the design team.
Partner with product management, engineering, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Investing products and Wealthfront.