Product Design Manager, Investment Management

The Design Department

The Design Department at Addepar shapes wealth managers’ digital experiences. By crafting and delivering intuitive, easy-to-use products, we help wealth managers grow their businesses and provide outstanding services to their clients. We take an agile, high-growth mentality and cultivate a client-centered work environment with a focus on constructive feedback and collaboration.

Wealth management is undergoing a technological transformation. Financial advisors need a better way to scale their businesses while meeting their clients’ financial needs. We’re looking for highly-qualified people who enjoy simplifying complexity and challenging the status quo to meet our goal of providing the best user experience in the industry.

The Role

Addepar is looking for a Product Design Manager for our growing suite of investment management products, which provides capabilities around portfolio rebalancing, order management, scenario analysis, as well as a marketplace to view and transact on alternative investment opportunities.

What You’ll Do

• Provide design vision and thought leadership for Addepar’s investment management products, advised by user research and data. Champion our clients.
• Partner with product management, engineering leads, and other internal stakeholders to align on OKRs, product strategy, solutions, development processes, and design deliverables. Achieve business outcomes.
• Triage design needs across multiple workstreams. Set and communicate priorities to your team. Be accountable.
• Build and manage a diverse team of product designers that consistently delivers and is well-balanced across a range of design skills.
• Lead, empower, and mentor product designers on the team to do their best work. Regularly provide constructive critique and introduce learning opportunities. Encourage growth.
• Collaborate with the design system team and design leads across Addepar's platform to ensure a cohesive end-to-end client experience that embody our brand.
• Be a driver and contributor to strategic design initiatives. Work with other design leads to improve and scale existing design patterns, rituals, and tools. Cultivate a culture of design excellence.
• Seek out and adopt feedback from your peers, reports, collaborators, and cross-functional leadership.

Who You Are

• 7+ years of experience working in the field of Product Design, Interaction Design, and/or UX Design.
• 2+ year of experience leading and managing a team of product designers.
• A portfolio showcasing strong user-centered design practices, product thinking, and proven visual design fundamentals.
• Experienced in designing finance or investment products for enterprise users.
• Exceptional collaboration, communication, and presentations skills.
• Passion for building a happy, impactful design team.
• Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes in an agile, high-growth environment.
• Proficient in using design and prototyping tools, such as Figma.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.