Principal Product Designer (US Remote)

Wealthfront is looking for a Principal Product Designer. Reporting directly to the VP of Design, this role is ideal for the design lead who deeply loves the craft of making great products for our clients. They will work across design systems and embed with specific product teams on high-leverage projects. This is for someone who is excited about having impact through defining great patterns, systems, and tooling that uplevel the work of the design team AND developing simple, delightful products and features.

Success in this role will require strong collaboration skills, ability to think in scalable systems/platforms, and a high bar for craft & execution. Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details and going deep to transform complex problems into elegant solutions. We’re seeking a design lead who cares deeply about all aspects of a great product experience, from strategy to pattern to pixel.

A passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products is highly desirable. Growing and managing your wealth is fundamental to being able to build the life you want with the people who matter most. This is a unique opportunity to be at the center of charting the next generation of technology innovation in investing products. If this gets you excited, we want to hear from you!

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 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. It plays an important role in the executive staff that collectively makes all critical strategic decisions. As a leader of the organization, your role will be to model this, develop these skills in your design teams, and contribute to the company-level design organization as a member of the design leadership team.

We’re a remote-first team and open to candidates in the US.

Key responsibilities

Design Systems

•Defining quality for design at Wealthfront by ensuring our Design System is principled, elegant, and impactful.

•Product initiatives include key components, product and content design patterns, accessibility, tooling, etc. to uplevel and improve efficiency for design and engineering, creating consistent, high quality, and performant experiences for our clients.

Support high-impact work happening across the company

•Act in leadership or support capacity for important projects

•Create structure and drive outcomes for high-ambiguity, high-complexity work, including organizing and driving design sprints, upleveling strategy and craft, designing and delivering world-class designs

•Work in close partnership with cross-functional partners and other designers

•Connect dots across related client needs and projects

•Mentor other designers, particularly around craft

Overall

•Partnering with pm, eng, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Design Systems and Wealthfront.

•Contribute to the development of the design team by assisting with hiring, guiding the work, mentorship, cultivating excellence, and building an inclusive culture.

•Helping us innovate and scale as a company by partnering with leaders across Wealthfront. Identify and pursue impactful ideas on everything from what we build to how we work, such that we are able to learn as quickly and “lean-ly” as possible

Skills and experience

• 10+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company
• You know how to drive high-quality decisions
• You’re an exceptional product thinker who understands the business
• You have a proven track record setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind a vision, translating a vision into roadmap, and ensuring your team ships high quality experiences to bring the team’s vision to customers
• Your have strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
• You’ve helped other designers grow in their creative practice by teaching them how to effectively use tools such as user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills and design principles
• You’ve actively contributed to hiring a diverse, talented team
• You model a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
• You are naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech
• Bonus: experience building modern fintech products

Mindset that excels at Wealthfront

• Approaching problems with curiosity and intellectual rigor
• Taking a learning-based approach: leveraging research, data, and experimentation to build confidence around decisions and assumptions
• Critically evaluating customer and business trade-offs
• Transforming complexity or ambiguity into clarity
• Taking a craft-led management mindset
• Driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
• Putting the company and the team first
• Going above and beyond to make the people around you successful
• Being enterprising and self-driven: moving with urgency, being solutions-oriented
• Being passionate our clients and our business
• Being excited to learn and grow with the company.

Estimated annual salary: ~ $259,000 USD plus equity and discretionary bonus

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!