Director, Product Design

<p>Want to help everyday Americans invest and build wealth?<strong> </strong>Financial inequality is increasing, and too many people are getting left behind. At Stash, we’re passionate about democratizing wealth creation through education, advice, and products that help customers achieve greater financial freedom. We also believe in working smarter—leveraging AI and emerging technologies to move faster, operate more efficiently, and focus our time on solving meaningful problems for our customers.</p> <p>Product Design partners with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Science to ship the Stash experience end to end. The team’s job is simple to say and hard to do: make money feel understandable, trustworthy, and actionable for everyday people. Our product’s job is to be a financial advisor in your pocket.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is a Director, Product Design role reporting to the VP of Product. You’ll manage two designers and stay hands-on on high-leverage work. You’re modeling the bar while you develop the team. You’ll help set direction for the customer experience, simplify complex problems, and drive quality through reviews, systems thinking, and close partnership with Product and Engineering.&nbsp;</p> <p>You’ll also help the team work in a modern way, including practical use of AI where it speeds up exploration and delivery, with standards that keep the product coherent and responsible.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Keep design human-centered across the journey: research, flows, copy moments, edge cases. Define what “good” looks like for the customer.</li> <li>Run the full design arc: pull signal from research, sketch and prototype (using whatever tools make sense, including AI-assisted ones), run tight reviews, hand off specs engineers can build from, and stay involved through launch.</li> <li>Show up in roadmap and strategy conversations with Product. Contribute a vision and strong point of view on how we get there.</li> <li>Partner with Engineering, Product, and Marketing so the product feels like one brand</li> <li>Build the boring-but-important stuff: how critique works, how the design system evolves, how we reuse patterns, how we review AI-assisted work so it still meets our bar.</li> <li>Say no when something isn’t ready. That includes experiences that need clearer disclosure, better fallbacks, or a simpler path before customers see them.</li> <li>Strong data-informed product thinking: ability to leverage quantitative data, behavioral insights, experimentation results, and customer signals to inform design decisions, identify opportunities, and continuously improve the user experience.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we're looking for:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>8+ years of ex