Wealthfront

Senior Product Designer, Growth

Palo Alto, California, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Financial ServicesIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Not specified

Wealthfront is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join the Growth team. This role involves working on high-impact projects, ranging from data-driven experiments to strategic initiatives, focused on improving the user experience and driving business impact. The Growth team prioritizes learning through experimentation and leveraging qualitative research, product data, and business objectives to test and scale impactful solutions. A passion for consumer financial technology products is highly desirable.

Requirements

  • Excellent design craft
  • Deep curiosity about user motivations
  • Passion for learning from experimentation
  • Experience building consumer financial technology products (highly desirable)
  • Ability to define problems and translate them into actionable solutions

Responsibilities

  • Work on projects ranging from quick data-driven experiments to strategic initiatives.
  • Drive significant positive impact for Wealthfront’s users and business.
  • Leverage qualitative research insights, product data, and business objectives to form hypotheses.
  • Construct experiments to efficiently test and scale hypotheses.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, researchers, data scientists, legal, and compliance.
  • Transform complex technology and concepts into clear, simple, and actionable experiences.

Company Information

Wealthfront pioneered automated investing, offering accessible and affordable investment strategies. The company’s mission is to build a financial system that favors people over institutions. Design at Wealthfront emphasizes simplicity, collaboration, and innovation, working closely with engineering, product management, research, and other teams.

Application Instructions

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Skills

Design craft
User motivation understanding
Experimentation and research
Financial technology products
Problem definition
Solution translation
Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Wealthfront

Automated investment and wealth management services

About Wealthfront

Wealthfront provides financial services aimed at helping individuals grow their wealth through a digital platform. Its main offering is an automated investment platform that utilizes robo-advisors—algorithms that manage and invest client funds for long-term growth. This service is complemented by a high-yield cash account that offers a competitive 5.00% APY for short-term savings, provided through partner banks. Additionally, Wealthfront offers a diversified bond portfolio, allowing clients to earn dividends with tax advantages, and a platform for discovering and purchasing stocks to facilitate quick and strategic investment decisions. Unlike many traditional wealth management firms, Wealthfront focuses on automation and ease of use, making financial services accessible to a broader audience. The company's goal is to simplify wealth management and help clients maximize their financial potential.

Palo Alto, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2011Year Founded
$198.9MTotal Funding
SERIES_ECompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Free lunches, snacks, coffee
Receive 1:1 mentorship
Caltrain pass, an additional transportation stipend, and relocation bonuses
Monthly wellness reimbursement
Discretionary time off policy and offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage

Risks

Increased competition from robo-advisors and traditional institutions may erode market share.
Free wire transfers could increase operational costs without boosting revenue.
Expansion into stock trading faces competition from established platforms like Robinhood.

Differentiation

Wealthfront offers a high-yield cash account with industry-leading 5.00% APY.
The company provides a diversified bond portfolio with tax advantages and no maturity dates.
Wealthfront's automated investment platform uses award-winning algorithms for long-term wealth growth.

Upsides

Wealthfront's cash account now offers up to $8 million in FDIC insurance.
The company has reached $50 billion in client assets, indicating strong growth.
Increased demand for AI-driven financial advice aligns with Wealthfront's robo-advisor services.

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