Sr. 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,
to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease
. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (Four days/ week in-office).

Betterment’s mission is to empower people to do what’s best for their money so that they can live better. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer for our rapidly-growing Betterment at Work platform, which provides modern financial benefits for today’s diverse workforce, empowering small-to-medium-sized businesses to attract and retain happy employees. You’ll lead projects that focus on the experiences of retirement advisors, as well as employees saving and planning for retirement on our award-winning web and mobile apps.

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. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. 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: $135,000-$160,000

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. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly.

• Serve as design lead, building end-to-end experiences across the employee and advisor platforms
• Contribute to product strategy by identifying new opportunities, generating innovative solutions, crafting intuitive and efficient designs, and improving existing features
• Partner with product management, engineering, and many others, working closely in cross-disciplinary teams across business-to-business and consumer-facing product areas
• Be responsible for all aspects of design for your projects from inception through launch
• Make informed decisions based on customer feedback, competitor analysis, metrics, and usability tests
• Further develop your design skills, working among a talented team of designers, providing one another feedback and perspective, aiming for a cohesive holistic experience across all touchpoints

• 4+ years of relevant experience as a Product Designer (previous titles may have been different)
• Portfolio demonstrating extraordinary product design work across web and mobile, with proven customer and business impact
• Experience leveraging research, usability testing, and analytics to determine user problems, and inform decisions
• 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 designing within an established design system and evolving when appropriate

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 life 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.

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