Principal Product Designer, Investing

The role

Lead design for Investing products as a Principal Product Designer, reporting to the Design Director for Self-Directed Investing. Drive high-ambiguity, high-complexity design work and collaborate with engineering, product, research, data science, legal and compliance.

What you will do

• Organize and drive design sprints for high-ambiguity, high-complexity work
• Become the go-to designer for investing and ecosystem-wide initiatives
• Use rapid prototyping and broad design exploration to speed strategic decisions
• Partner with Wealthfront leaders to identify and pursue impactful ideas
• Lead design-team-wide initiatives and define new patterns and processes
• Partner with PM, eng, research, data science, legal, compliance and designers to ship high-impact work

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company
• Willingness to get into the details to drive high-quality decisions
• Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally to senior leaders and executives
• Ability to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity
• Proven track record setting a vision for customer experiences and turning it into a roadmap
• Use of UX methods, prototyping, design frameworks and problem-framing skills
• Strong communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills across teams

Nice to have

• Passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products is highly desirable
• Experience building modern fintech products

Benefits

• Medical, vision and dental coverage
• 401K matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Generous time off
• Parental leave
• Wellness reimbursements
• Professional development
• Employee investing discount

Before you apply

• Decisions are subject to a discretionary bonus and equity as stated

About the company

Wealthfront aims to build a financial system that favors people over institutions. It offers automated investing, cash, brokerage and mortgage products, with over 1.5 million funded clients.