Senior Product Designer

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility

Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future

Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team

Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress

Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

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Sr. Product Designer | Acorns

Money is deeply emotional; it can make you feel guilty, stressed, jealous, or even angry. And yet, most financial products are designed like money is just numbers on a screen—ignoring the very real emotions that come with every dollar earned, spent, saved, or invested.

Now, imagine you’re the person tasked with making people feel good about their financial decisions. Not just comfortable, not just confident—but hopeful. That’s not just a design problem; that’s a psychology problem. A storytelling problem. A behavior problem. And solving it will require a designer who understands that great design is about both function and perception.

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the Acorns experience. From ideation to execution, you’ll help define intuitive, thoughtful, and delightful money tools. You’ll support and collaborate with fellow designers, engineers, and product managers to bring new features to life, refine existing experiences, and push against what’s possible.

At Acorns, we move fast, have fun, and we challenge each other to aim high. Good design isn’t enough—it has to be engaging, intuitive, and emotionally resonant. That means:

• You think beyond “functional”—because the best products don’t just work; they inspire action and elicit emotion.

• You thrive in collaboration—working across teams to turn insights into beautifully designed experiences.

• You know that humor and humility go a long way—because creativity flourishes when people can challenge themselves without taking themselves too seriously.

You should be comfortable working with tools like Figma and have experience designing consumer apps and digital products. You’ll help refine features, build design systems, and evolve the Acorns product experience alongside a talented team.

This isn’t just a job—it’s life’s work, because when people feel in control of their money, they feel more in control of their lives. And when that happens at scale, society changes. If that idea excites you, then we’d love to have you join us.

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Expertise: Understand product goals and objectives, translate requirements into actionable design solutions, and address user pain points while contributing to the company’s key performance indicators (OKRs).

• Collaborative Execution: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers and engineers, to design and deliver user-centered features and functionality across multiple platforms.

• Solution Presentation:  Develop and present thoughtful, innovative, and user-focused design solutions that enhance the customer experience. Clearly articulate design rationale to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding.

• Research-Driven Design: Advocate for and incorporate user research into the design process. Share findings to inform product development and refine solutions. Must be comfortable with running live A/B experiments and contribute to research strategy

• Team Collaboration: Actively participate in design reviews, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement within the team. Serve as a design advocate across the organization..

What you will bring to Acorns:

• Proven Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product Design, UX/UI Design, or a related role, with a demonstrated ability to deliver impactful user experiences

• Design Proficiency:  Strong understanding of design principles and best practices, including typography, desktop/mobile UI, color schemes, layout, and iconography. Skilled in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite

• Portfolio: A robust portfolio showcasing your ability to design and deliver impactful, user-centered solutions across digital products.

• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly and persuasively to team members and stakeholders.

• Design Systems: Experience working within and contributing to a design system to ensure consistency and scalability in your design outputs.

To excel at Acorns, you’ll also bring:

• Mission Alignment: A strong passion for Acorns’ mission in personal finance and a belief that your work contributes to meaningful societal change

• Proactive Mindset: A self-starter with the ability to take initiative, manage ambiguity, and drive projects forward with minimal supervision.

• Continuous Curiosity: A commitment to lifelong learning and a natural curiosity to explore how to make products better for users. Your openness to feedback and willingness to challenge assumptions will be invaluable to our collective success.

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

What we offer: 

• Competitive salary and stock options

• A comprehensive benefits package for you and your family

• Flexible work location, hours, and paid time off 

• 401(k) discretionary match

• Monthly Acorns account contribution & GoHenry account for your family

• Mindfulness and Financial Wellness resources, Headspace and Addition Wealth

• Acorns Career Development Program (Ongoing training sessions, development plans, development check-ins, Cornerstone’s online training platform)

• Roots Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders

• Community week onsite gatherings and various virtual events

• 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.

What you will do at Acorns:

• 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

• 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

• Be comfortable with all parts of our products and features

• Have contributed to multiple product and feature releases

• Helped optimize multiple products and features based on user feedback, stakeholder feedback, user testing, and product experiments

What you will bring to Acorns:

• 5+ years experience designing user-centric product experiences

• Experience working on customer centric consumer products

• Experience melding thoughtful user experiences with beautiful user interfaces

• Good interpersonal communication (both written and verbal)

• Experience designing for mobile devices and web applications

• Knowledge of the Figma and/or Adobe Creative Suite

• 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

• Hunger to deliver 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

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

What we offer: 

• Competitive salary and stock options

• A comprehensive benefits package for you and your family

• Flexible work location, hours, and paid time off 

• 401(k) discretionary match

• Monthly Acorns account contribution & GoHenry account for your family

• Mindfulness and Financial Wellness resources, Headspace, and Addition Wealth

• Acorns Career Development Program (Ongoing training sessions, development plans, development check-ins, Cornerstone’s online training platform)

• Roots Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders

• Community week onsite gatherings and various virtual events

• 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 a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life-stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 14 million people save & invest over $25 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

Compensation Information:

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $190,000 - $205,500/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, equity grants, and discretionary cash bonus awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Work Authorization:

Acorns participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov