Associate Product Designer
Vestwell
WHO ARE WE?
There are over 30M small businesses in the United States, but only a tiny fraction of them have a workplace savings program in place. As the savings gap in the country widens, it’s imperative that every worker has access to and participates in their company’s savings program, such as a 401(k) or 403(b). We believe that American workers should have easy access to an inexpensive, flexible, and intuitive solution to save for a brighter future.
Unfortunately, prior to Vestwell, small businesses have been neglected and underserved, with expensive, inflexible, poorly designed offerings built on old, mainframe software. Vestwell is changing that, starting with rebuilding the core infrastructure for the modern era.
Vestwell’s north star is to be the engine behind a $30T industry, powering all payroll-deducted workplace savings programs for small-to-midsize businesses, such as 401(k), 403(b), IRA, emergency savings accounts (ESA), health savings accounts (HSA), 529 college savings, and alike.
Vestwell’s focus is to build the most flexible, powerful workplace savings and investment platform, delivered through the hands and minds of their financial services partners with the help of payroll provider partners. The team at Vestwell makes the hard stuff look easy, by combining the expertise of financial advice with the sophistication of a technology provider.
As a result, workplace providers are able to bestow the advice and solution employers and employees have been asking for, while growing and scaling along the way. Employers get a cost-effective solution designed for their needs without all the headaches, and employees get a user-friendly portal that helps them achieve their long-term saving goals.
WHY VESTWELL?
With backing from leading FinTech investors, as well as a growing team of dedicated professionals of strong industry pedigree, Vestwell is at the forefront of a much-needed change in a 40-year old industry. Our team believes in the mission we’ve set out to achieve and we are working hard to get there. We’re ambitious, honest, thoughtful, and fun.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The design team is seeking a mid-level Product Designer who will be comfortable with the many facets of the design process, including root cause investigation, research synthesis, brainstorming, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and the fundamentals of product design. You will work with senior members of the team while helping balance the needs of the business with the needs of our users. You’re a great fit for our team if you can thrive in detail-oriented tasks as well as supporting the team in defining future product direction. Most of all, you must be passionate about what you create and about the impact it can have. That matters to us a lot!
REQUIREMENTS
Necessary Experience
- Degree in Design, related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3-5 years of professional experience as a Product Designer or User Experience Designer for digital products and systems across mobile and web platforms
- An obsession with Figma
- A portfolio reflecting a deep understanding of design principles
- Familiarity with maintaining component libraries and design systems
- Familiarity with designing responsive web and mobile applications from desktop to mobile viewports
- High-fidelity wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing experience
- Experience working with Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and business stakeholders
- Research experience with user interviews, surveys, and data analysis from event tracking
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Experience presenting your work to executive leadership and project stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Experience in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with HTML and CSS
- ADA / WCAG compliance experience
- Based in NYC
OUR CULTURE
We take a modern Agile approach to software development, trusting cross-functional squads to make bottom up decisions in terms of roadmap prioritization, technical choices, and day-to-day processes.
We want squads working as a team to define their roadmap and prioritization, that follows best practices in development, automation testing, deploying, and support.
BENEFITS
We’re a growth stage startup with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and, as such, offer competitive health coverage and an open vacation policy. We also have a bright, comfortable office with lots of workspace options in midtown Manhattan so you can be as productive as possible. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!
The expected salary range for this position is $90-110,000 for New York, $85,500-104,500 for Austin, and $81,000-99,000 for Phoenix.
OUR BENEFITS
We’re a growth stage startup with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and an open vacation policy. We have adopted a remote-hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in midtown Manhattan so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. We provide our team with all the equipment they need (plus a few perks!) to work effectively remotely. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!
OUR PROCESS
It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 - 2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recruiter to meet with a current or former supervisor and peer. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.
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