Senior Designer - Editorial, Creative

About the role

Wealthfront’s Creative Team is searching for a Senior Designer to lead the visual direction and executions for Vested Interest, our editorial program focused on timely content around the surprising ins-and-outs of the economy. The goal of this growing vertical is to empower digital natives to make informed financial decisions through timely, unique content that connects prevailing macroeconomic news with their personal finance goals.

You’ll collaborate with our content team to ideate and deliver weekly visual assets for the program, which will include a mix of headers, charts, photo composites, and illustrations to support a variety of financial topics. This designer will be a hands-on builder who connects creative decisions back to audience insights, with flexibility to adapt directions according to shifting drafts and unique approaches across distribution channels.

About You

• You believe in our mission and know that money can be both intimidating and empowering. You’re invested in our vision of how well-managed finances can reduce worry and enable clients to live more fully.
• You sweat the small stuff, recognizing the thin line between “ok” and “exceptional” and are driven to stay on the right side of it.
• You make considered decisions, defend your creative choices, and revise opinions in the face of compelling arguments because you care deeply about making the work the best it can be.
• You have high expectations for yourself and others, nit-picking pixels while ensuring your work serves the team.
• You’re eager to contribute even outside your typical skill set, understanding there’s always more to learn and looking forward to expanding your creative arsenal.
• You’re resourceful and enterprising, thinking like an owner, solutions-oriented, and adaptable to the constraints of a nimble, fast-paced team.
• You actively explore new tools and ways to improve collaboration, development, and execution of your work.
• You create memorable, engaging things that might—or might not—look like marketing, with experience bringing a brand to life.

Responsibilities

• Lead our editorial executions with a keen understanding of audience(s) and business objectives.
• Foster strong relationships with editorial and marketing teams to streamline collaboration and develop opportunities that expand our vision for timely content.
• Contribute to and refine strategic insights, enhancing the creative development process.
• Deliver brand-level impact through exceptional design craft, balancing expressiveness with clarity and scalability while anticipating longer-term brand system needs.
• Dive into early drafts and research materials to develop informed perspectives.
• Share unique knowledge and craft skills to uplevel the executions of other creative teammates and our overall approach to educational content.
• Ideate and produce assets from concept to delivery, working directly with content peers and incorporating stakeholder feedback effectively.
• Deliver multiple strategic directions each week, testing assumptions and uncovering surprising solutions.
• Take on financial concepts with ambiguous visual approaches, driving them from concept to execution.
• Collaborate with creative team members to evolve brand expressions and maintain brand consistency.
• Adapt executions and tailor messages across various media channels.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a visual designer in an agency, studio, or in-house creative team.
• Experience working collaboratively on a timely content program with a recurring cadence.
• A strong background and passion for both foundational digital creative (layout, typography, color) and experimental production (collage, 3D, illustration, AI).
• Experience adapting consistent and effective visual expressions across digital, video, and social channels.

• Bonus: Direct experience working with a content team.
• Bonus: Technical motion production skills with After Effects (or similar).
• Bonus: Effective usage of AI to illustrate concepts or final assets.
• Bonus: Illustration or drawing skills.
• Bonus: Financial background with investing or macroeconomics.

Pay

Estimated annual salary: $139,500 USD, plus equity.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401K plan with matching.
• Generous time off and parental leave.
• Wellness reimbursements.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Employee investing discount.

Schedule

We’re a remote-friendly team open to candidates in the US and parts of Canada, with opportunities for occasional in-person company and team-specific events.

About Wealthfront

Wealthfront’s mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We leverage technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.

• A Cash Account offering one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, with instant and secure access, no account fees, and full checking features.
• A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections to help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter decisions.
• Multiple automated investing portfolios designed to unlock tax savings through strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing—offered at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums.

Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $85 billion of their savings—and we’re far from done.