Lead Product Designer – Contract
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Lead Product Designer driving Acorns Early and Early Invest experiences. Shaping financial wellness products for parents and kids through high-fidelity design and research.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design across multiple Acorns Early and Early Invest initiatives, from problem framing through high-fidelity design and handoff
- Partner with product and engineering leads to shape scope, prioritize, and make tradeoffs
- Translate business goals and customer insight into product concepts and experience strategy
- Design experiences serving parents and kids, with clarity and trust at the center
- Prototype and test ideas quickly before engineering investment
- Guide and give feedback to other designers on the Family team
- Present work and rationale to senior stakeholders and build alignment across teams
- Contribute to the Acorns design system
- Support engineering through build and QA
Requirements:
- 8+ years of product design experience
- Portfolio of shipped consumer mobile work
- Clear examples of leading projects end to end
- Ability to set design direction and drive alignment across product, engineering, and leadership
- Strong strategic and conceptual thinking
- Excellent interaction and visual craft
- Ability to ramp up quickly on existing projects and make sound decisions with limited context
- Experience guiding other designers through feedback and critique
- Clear, confident communication and storytelling with senior stakeholders
- Fluency in Figma and modern prototyping tools
- Experience in fintech, investing, or family products is a plus
- Hunger to deliver game-changing products
- Exceptional drive and precision in delivery
- Belief that work is tied to life's mission
- Optimism about the potential of societal change
- Work authorization in the United States; Acorns participates in E-Verify
Benefits:
- Competitive hourly rates
- Remote-first organization with flexibility to work remotely
- Optional access to office space in Irvine, CA
- Talented and motivated team
- Opportunity to solve meaningful societal challenges through work
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