Senior Staff Product Designer, Investing

Wealthfront is hiring a Senior Staff Product Designer, Investing to help shape the future of its investing products. You’ll work on high-ambiguity, high-complexity design initiatives, partnering across teams to elevate both design strategy and craft. The role reports to the Design Director for Self-Directed Investing and is grounded in collaboration, inclusive team health, and strong product thinking.

What you’ll do

• Set structure and drive outcomes for complex, unclear problems by organizing and leading design sprints, improving strategy and craft, and delivering world-class designs.
• Act as the go-to designer for investing initiatives, building an in-depth understanding of current efforts and future endeavors.
• Accelerate strategic decision-making through rapid prototyping and broad design exploration.
• Partner with leaders across Wealthfront to innovate and scale, identifying impactful ideas across what the company builds and how it works, while improving learning speed and efficiency.
• Strengthen culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, bolstering an inclusive environment, and defining new patterns and processes to mature the design team.
• Ensure positive, productive collaboration across PM, engineering, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Investing products and Wealthfront.

What you bring

• 8+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
• Experience shipping exceptional quality products in a fast-paced consumer tech environment.
• Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally to senior leaders and executives.
• A self-starter who can manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity.
• Strategic product thinking that extends beyond execution of design, including deep interest in understanding the business.
• A proven record setting a vision for customer experiences, inspiring others to align, translating vision into a roadmap, and ensuring the team ships high-quality experiences.
• Effective use of UX methods and tools such as ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, and problem framing, guided by strong design principles.
• Experience modeling a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed.
• Bonus: experience building modern fintech products.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Generous time off and parental leave
• Wellness reimbursements
• Professional development
• Employee investing discount
• Generous equity and a discretionary bonus
• Estimated annual salary: ~$240,000 plus generous equity and a discretionary bonus

Mindset that excels at Wealthfront

• Embraces complexity and engages in intellectually rigorous discussions while evaluating trade-offs from both customer and business perspectives.
• Turns ambiguity into clarity and drives alignment across the organization.
• Considers the company and team first, with resilience to lead through difficult situations.
• Supports others and helps them succeed.
• Has high agency, bringing proposals and improvements to the table instead of waiting for change.
• Cares deeply about learning and growing alongside the company.

Location: Palo Alto, CA (remote)

Salary: USD 240,000 per year

Experience: 8+ years