Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer | Acorns

Acorns is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join our design team. You will work on every stage of the product development process; from ideation and concepting to strategy, ux, and visual design. You will work alongside a team of talented designers to flush out new features and collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to address design changes and improvements throughout our apps and products. You should be comfortable with design software (Figma) and have experience, and a passion for, working on consumer apps and digital products.

This role has the option to be remote or based in our Irvine, CA or New York, NY offices.

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements. If you feel passionately about Acorns' mission, vision and values, please apply.  

Within 1 month, you will:

• Familiarize yourself with our design language and existing products
• Meet and get to know your fellow Design teammates, as well as key stakeholders you’ll be working with
• Collaborate with other designers on your first projects

Within 6 months, you will:

• Work on multiple aspects of the product
• Help refine and improve our existing products
• Work with multiple members of the team across Design, Product and Engineering
• Present at design demos and work through feedback
• Lead a team of product designers, providing guidance, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive design culture

Within 12 months, you will:

• Be comfortable with all parts of our products and features
• Have contributed to multiple product and feature releases
• Drive the overall design strategy and vision for your team ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs
• Continuously iterate and improve upon multiple products and features based on user feedback, stakeholder feedback, user testing and product experiments
• Champion a user-centric design approach, advocating for the needs and goals of our users throughout the product development lifecycle

What you will bring to Acorns:

• 6+ years experience designing user-centric product experiences
• Defines the problem, vision and strategy with cross-functional partners
• Leads a product team on the design side (leads and mentors a team of product designers)
• Creates design concepts, and experienced working in a multidisciplinary environment to develop delightful concepts and deliver business results
• Can lead strategy discussions with cross-functional partners
• Helps develop design processes/approach for tackling a problem
• Experience melding thoughtful user experiences with beautiful user interfaces
• Good interpersonal communication (both written and verbal)
• Good organizational skills
• Adaptable and quick learner that enjoys tackling a large variety of problems
• Passion for product design, apps and personal finance
• A natural curiosity that leads you to always wonder how we could make our products better for our users
• Thirst for delivering game-changing products
• Exceptional drive and precision in delivery
• A belief that your work is tied to your life's mission
• Optimistic about the potential of societal change

What we offer: 

• Competitive salary and stock options
• A comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family
• Flexible paid time off
• Numerous career possibilities that allow you to grow with Acorns
• Talented and motivated team members who care deeply about one another, our mission and our customers.
• The rare opportunity to create a new world. We inspire one another every day to do meaningful work that solves big societal challenges.

About Acorns:
Acorns is how everyday consumers save & invest for the long term. To date, customers have invested over $15 billion with Acorns, much of it in spare change. By putting the tools of wealth-making in everyone's hands, Acorns has become the largest subscription service in U.S. consumer finance, serving over 10 million everyday Americans. Customers get automated investing in diversified portfolios, a simple retirement product, a bank account that helps people spend less to invest more, and bonus investments from 20k brands. Plus, everyday Americans can easily invest in their kids and get money news they can use, all from the same app. From acorns, mighty oaks do grow!

Mission:
With benevolence and courage, we look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming; beginning with the empower