Senior Staff Product Designer, Investing

Wealthfront•Palo Alto, CA

7d•Remote

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 role will help expand how clients build long-term wealth through saving and investing. The designer will tackle complex, ambiguous problems with thoughtful, elegant solutions, working across strategy, systems, patterns, and detailed execution. Success requires strong collaboration, a systems-oriented approach, and a high bar for craft. Passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products is desirable. Wealthfront’s design team turns complex financial technology into simple, useful, and delightful experiences. Designers work closely with engineering, product management, research, data science, legal, and compliance, contributing to strategic decisions and roadmaps. The team emphasizes careful communication, continuous learning, inclusive collaboration, and high-quality execution. This is a remote-friendly role open to candidates in the United States.

Requirements

At least 8 years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
Experience at consumer technology companies shipping high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally to senior leaders and executives.
Self-starter able to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity.
Strategic product thinking, including shaping the overall user experience and understanding the business.
Track record of setting a vision for customer experiences, inspiring others to support it, translating it into a roadmap, and delivering high-quality experiences.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience building modern fintech products.
Passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products.

Responsibilities

Create structure and drive outcomes for ambiguous, complex work, including organizing and leading design sprints, strengthening strategy and craft, and delivering high-quality designs.
Become the go-to designer for Investing initiatives, developing an in-depth understanding of current and future work.
Use design to accelerate strategic decision-making through rapid prototyping and broad design exploration.
Partner with leaders across Wealthfront to identify and pursue impactful ideas for products and ways of working, enabling the company to learn efficiently.
Lead design-team-wide initiatives that support team health and an inclusive environment; 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.
Set a vision for customer experiences, build support for that vision, translate it into a roadmap, and ensure high-quality experiences reach customers.
Communicate abstract design concepts clearly and engagingly to senior leaders and executives.