Staff Product Designer

About Betterment

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (three days/ week in-office).

About the role

As a Staff Product Designer specializing in design systems, you'll evolve our cross-platform design system, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to accelerate product development and deliver exceptional user experiences. You’ll champion visual craft, consistency, and accessibility, enabling our teams to achieve high-quality outcomes efficiently and at scale.

At Betterment, we hire designers who are passionate about personal finance, and building intuitive, delightful experiences for customers to manage their money. You approach problems holistically, and are self-motivated, learning new skills quickly, with a sense for what you’ll develop next. We seek out folks who are talented and eager to both learn from their colleagues and help make them better. As a design team, we're focused and always strive for excellence. 

This role is based out of our NYC office. The base salary range offered for this position is reflected below. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees. 

• New York City: $165,000-190,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

 

A day in the life

• Evolve and scale our cross-platform design system, serving diverse product teams across three distinct business lines on web and mobile
• Prioritize initiatives strategically to maximize adoption, efficiency, and impact while maintaining robust documentation, design principles, and component libraries in Figma
• Partner deeply with engineers to ensure component parity, pixel-perfect execution, and performance in web (React) and mobile (Flutter) platforms
• Mentor designers and foster best practices, guiding the creation and adaptation of design system components for new use cases
• Establish and maintain accessible, high-quality standards, empowering teams to meet WCAG compliance and consistency

 

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years delivering impactful, product design work, with a meaningful stretch focused on building and scaling design systems at a mid to large size, multi‑product company.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, system thinking, accessibility expertise, and proven business impact
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; ability to align diverse stakeholders
• Strong organizational abilities, adept at managing multiple projects and timelines
• Strategic approach to design that clearly connects to business and user outcomes
• Experience leveraging research, usability testing, and analytics to inform decisions
• Bonus points if you have familiarity or experience working directly in frontend technologies, or demonstrated comfort collaborating closely with engineers on technical implementation details.

*Link to portfolio required 

What being at Betterment means for you

We change lives

Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people's lives better.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.

We value all perspectives

When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.

 We invest in you with:

• A competitive suite of benefits, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits, including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and ge