Design Director, Cash and Money Movement

Wealthfront is looking for a Design Director to support our Cash area. Reporting directly to the Design Director for the Cash and Growth, this role is ideal for the design leader who enjoys a mix of direct impact on vision and strategy and unlocking impact by empowering the team they support. This role is best suited for someone who loves having impact through the scope and quality of their work rather than through the number of people they manage.

Success in this role will require strong people management and communication skills as well as strategic thinking, vision facilitation, a high bar for craft, and executional excellence. Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details and going deep to untangle complex problems. We’re seeking a design leader who cares deeply about all phases of product development—from defining new opportunities to shipped pixels. 

The Cash area aims to make organizing and managing finances dead simple. This covers everything from core platform capabilities like money movement, to getting people instant access to their savings to confidently make a down payment, to helping a couple think through their shared financial picture. We leverage technology to build sophisticated financial products that put people in control of their finances. If you love tackling complex problems and crafting elegant experiences that have a direct impact on people’s lives, 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.

• Driving company impact through supporting 5 senior and staff level product and content designers: staffing, hiring, guiding their work, growing their skills, facilitating career development, cultivating excellent performance, and building an inclusive culture. 
• Facilitating effective cross-functional collaboration exercises, vision workshops, design sprints etc. to quickly bring clarity and alignment to new opportunities.
• Supporting designers in, and individually partnering with PM, engineering, user research, and data science to directly drive clarity on ambiguous opportunities and vision to support area strategy, prioritization, and tradeoffs. 
• Coordinating a complex roadmap of long-term projects that impact core Wealthfront platform capabilities and involve multiple stakeholders and external partners. 
• Developing ongoing product initiatives including Instant Withdrawals, Joint Access and Management, and unifying the transfer experience across all Wealthfront products, and more.
• Helping us innovate and scale as a company by partnering with leaders across Wealthfront. 
• Identifying and pursuing impactful ideas on everything from what we build to how we work, such that we are able to learn as quickly and efficiently as possible.

• 4+ years of design management experience in a software company with design embedded as part of cross-functional product development teams
• 10+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company
• You know when and how to get into the details to drive high-quality decisions
• You’re an exceptional product thinker who understands how to drive business business impact through design
• You have a proven track record setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind a vision, translating a vision into a prioritized roadmap, and ensuring your team ships high quality experiences to bring the team’s vision to customers
• You have strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
• You’ve helped your teams 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 hired and grown a diverse team
• You’ve developed a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
• You’ve managed performance across a spectrum of abilities and contexts
• You are naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech
• Bonus: experience building modern fintech products

• 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 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!

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 $80 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.