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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Head of Design position?

The suggested salary for this position is $245,100-$299,500*

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No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Head of Design job at SigFig

Head of Design

Location: US Remote

We are SigFig.We empower everyone to achieve their life goals and ambitions with intuitive and customer centric financial solutions. It takes extraordinary people to disrupt decades of legacy financial practices to reimagine solutions to serve customers at scale.

We are committed to building impactful financial solutions that are accessible and affordable to everyone. Using a combination of design, data science, and technology, we help provide people with financial advice and guidance they need to achieve their life goals. Whether it’s through our direct to consumer or business to consumer products through partnerships with some of the world’s largest and most innovative financial institutions like Wells Fargo, UBS, and Citizens Bank, SigFig seeks to help consumers and institutions make better financial decisions.

We are guided by our core values: Customer Delight, Make It Happen, Through Thick & Thin, Think Big, and We Over Me. Read more about our core values and how we live them every day on our website here.

Headquartered in San Francisco, we also have amazing talent solving interesting problems across our offices in Calgary, Tucson, Singapore, and New Delhi. Come thrive at SigFig!

How You’ll Make an Impact

A Strong Portfolio: You represent your past work or past work of your direct reports that exhibits a keen sense of design, color, typography and iconography.
Results-oriented Mindset: You have a high bar for excellence and know the difference between “good” and “great”
User-centered Perspective: You understand how to place the user at the center of your strategy, process, and methodology.
Team Building Experience: You have recruited successful designers in the past; you understand how to create safe environments for feedback and you inspire teams through your direction and vision.
Operational Savvy: You create structures so that your team and the teams you collaborate with can run independently and successfully

Why We Value You

Articulate the vision and design strategy for all things design at SigFig, including: Managed investments and financial advice for consumers, advisor tools, marketing and brand design, vision typing for business development, and trading tools.
Mapping design impact up to business objectives and KPIs while coordinating work across disciplines
Drive the multi-product design and experience across all SigFig product lines.
Collaborate cross functionally with product managers, engineers, investment managers, business development, and partner managers.
Facilitate design workshops or sprints to generate new ideas and align internal and external stakeholders.
Synthesize and share user research insights with the wider team.
Present design initiatives and vision to internal and external leaders.
Create effective feedback structures to ensure we are designing and building the best products possible.
Participate with sales and account executives for client engagement for both prospective and active clients. When necessary, help drive RFP efforts.
Function as the strategic leader of leading design thinking, user centric and testing principles.

Ideal SigFigian for this Role

You are a clear communicator, and aren’t afraid to have a point of view.
You can navigate the intricacies of multi-disciplinary teams and can resolve conflicts if they arise.
Understanding that product design is more than just pixels. Product design has enormous impact because it touches people through a business’s core strategy.
Embracing team objectives and delivering excellent, relevant work drives and motivates you.
Experience with B2B2C/Enterprise product development and you understand the level of robustness that an enterprise product requires.
Strong design platform fundamentals, and understand the benefits and pitfalls of managing a core design system that multiple partners inherit from.
Experience managing clients: You are adept at managing feedback from your immediate team members and potential partners.
Self-initiative: You must be comfortable working in ambiguity and helping others navigate fuzzy worlds.
You are flexible and open-minded.
Interest in finance or personal finance and are motivated by the idea of helping Americans achieve better financial outcomes.

Qualifications

10+ years experience in product design with 3+ years managing a team
Portfolio showcasing your best work or representative work of your past directs
Familiarity with industry standard apps and tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Framer, Invison, and Usertesting.com

*We’re currently only hiring in the following states: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New York ,New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin

Founded in 2007, SigFig is backed by premier venture capital firms, including Bain Capital Ventures, DCM Ventures, Nyca Partners, and Union Square Ventures as well as leading financial institutions including Wells Fargo, UBS, Santander, New York Life, Eaton Vance, and Comerica. We've raised $110 million to support our growth as the #1 online investment advisor for large financial institutions.

© Nvest. All rights reserved, SigFig is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply.

San Francisco Applicants: SigFig will consider applicants with arrest and conviction records (criminal histories) in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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