What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Product Designer, Cash position at Wealthfront?
About the role
Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer to drive design for our Cash product—our much loved high-yield savings and checking experience. Cash is the hub of Wealthfront’s financial ecosystem; clients love it for its instant money movement, joint account access, and the way it simplifies earning more with their cash. This role reports directly to a Design Director and is built for an experienced designer who is energized by simplifying complexity and crafting experiences as a zealous advocate for our clients.
Wealthfront pioneered automated investing by offering broad access to sophisticated investing strategies at a fraction of the cost of traditional financial advisers. That formed the beginning of a much broader vision for how our products can serve our mission to build a financial system that favors people over institutions. Since then, we’ve continued to expand the ways we help our clients build long-term wealth through saving, investing, and more.
As a Senior Staff designer on the Cash team, you will be a key part of expanding how we help clients build long-term wealth by identifying new opportunities across teams and surfaces. You won't just be designing in a silo; you’ll be connecting the dots between Cash and the broader Wealthfront ecosystem to create a seamless financial home
Design at Wealthfront
Designers at Wealthfront transform complex financial technology into simple and delightful experiences. Our commitment to our clients and high bar for craft set us apart from traditional financial institutions, fostering trust with our clients and empowering them to build lasting wealth on their own terms.
We pride ourselves on our meticulous attention to detail, consistently striving for excellence in all areas of our craft. We place just as much emphasis on the words we use to communicate with our clients as we do the interactive elements of our experiences. This shows up in our team structures–we have nearly a 1:1 ratio of content designers to product designers. We understand how design plays an important role in the success of our business and we are active participants in various leadership forums.
Collaboration is at the core of our approach. We work closely with our counterparts in engineering, product management, research, data science, legal, and compliance to define opportunities and explore solutions. We are equal partners in making strategic decisions and defining impactful roadmaps. We embrace a culture of continuous learning, prioritizing the magnitude of our successes over the percentage of times we are successful.
Most importantly, we love what we do! We are passionate about our mission, the financial technology space, and our clients. We take pride in our culture with a high bar, and a low ego.
We’re a remote friendly team and open to candidates in the US.
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- Drive Outcomes for Cash: Bring clarity to high-ambiguity work, including driving design sprints and upleveling strategy for new Cash initiatives.
- Ecosystem Integration: Act as a connector for Cash-related initiatives, ensuring our savings and checking products connect intuitively with our broader suite of wealth-building tools.
- Accelerate Decisions: Use rapid prototyping and broad design exploration to help the team make strategic decisions confidently and quickly.
- Uplevel the Team: Uphold team health by leading design-wide initiatives, mentoring other designers, and defining new patterns and processes.
- Direct Leadership Visibility: Interface directly with the executive leadership team through biweekly reviews and strategic consultations.
- 8 years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
- You have a portfolio of high-quality work that shows your experience designing elegant and visually engaging solutions to complex problems that directly solve user needs.
- You take a structured, intentional approach to your work, leveraging frameworks and principles to articulate your design decisions.
- You have experience collaborating with product managers, researchers, and content designers in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
- You can demonstrate strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly.
- You’re a reliable self-starter who can steer their work with minimal oversight.
- You love designing for the entire product process from strategy to pixel—and can demonstrate a range of skills from high-level flows to detailed interactions.
- You’re an exceptional product thinker who takes a deep interest in understanding business and customer needs.
- You’re deeply curious and interested in fintech
- Someone who embraces complexity, loves engaging in intellectually rigorous discussions, and critically evaluates trade-offs from a customer and business perspective
- Someone who transforms ambiguity into clarity and navigates the organization to drive alignment
- Someone who consistently thinks about the company and team first and has the resilience to work tough situations, steps up and leads the team
- Someone who goes above and beyond to make others around them successful
- Someone who is enterprising and demonstrates high agency. You don’t wait for change—you come to the table with proposals on how to improve
- Someone who deeply cares about learning and growing with the company
About Wealthfront
Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.
We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business. By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, we've expanded to a full suite of products designed to help our clients turn their savings into long-term wealth, including:
• A Cash Account that, through our partner banks, offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, while providing instant and secure access to your money with no account fees and a full suite of checking features.
• A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50 handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
• Multiple automated investing portfolios designed to unlock tax savings through sophisticated strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing—which we offer at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums.
Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $90 billion of their hard earned savings—and we're far from done. If you’re inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let’s talk!
For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Disclosures: All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile. Wealthfront doesn’t provide tax advice. The Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), Member of FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance. Investment management and advisory services–which are not FDIC insured–are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser. The checking features offered in the Wealthfront Cash Account are provided by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the Deposit Account Agreement for details.
By “award-winning products”, please refer to www.wealthfront.com/reviews for more information. Wealthfront Corporation oversees Total Client Assets and Trusted Clients through Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage. Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wealthfront Corporation.