Senior Product Designer, Community Building

Acorns
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 174,800 - 205,700 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["End-to-end ownership","Attention to detail","Cross-functional collaboration","Turning ambiguity into direction","Product quality focus"]

Build and shape Acorns’ new Community product team from scratch by designing end-to-end engagement loops, social sharing mechanics, and habit-forming experiences. You’ll set the quality bar for micro-interactions and product feel, translating ambiguous briefs into sharp, opinionated directions. Partner closely with the CEO, a senior product manager, and engineering to ensure design intent ships and drives organic growth for features reaching millions, including first-time investors.

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Senior Product Designer, Community Building

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Job Summary

Build and shape Acorns’ new Community product team from scratch by designing end-to-end engagement loops, social sharing mechanics, and habit-forming experiences. You’ll set the quality bar for micro-interactions and product feel, translating ambiguous briefs into sharp, opinionated directions. Partner closely with the CEO, a senior product manager, and engineering to ensure design intent ships and drives organic growth for features reaching millions, including first-time investors.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design engagement loops, sharing moments, and habit-forming mechanics that genuinely drive saving behavior.
  • •Set and maintain the Community product quality bar, including micro-interactions, product feel, and delight.
  • •Create a trustworthy, natural product experience aligned with Acorns’ core idea for a diverse audience new to investing.
  • •Partner with engineering and product to ensure design intent survives to production and ships reliably.
  • •Drive fast iteration by learning through building and quickly identifying what works.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 174,800 - 205,700 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Design engagement or retention features for social, gaming, or high-growth consumer apps, with demonstrated outcomes (e.g., streaks, sharing flows, social proof, habit loops).
  • •Own the full product design process end-to-end, from discovery and concepts through high-fidelity design and shipped delivery.
  • •Translate ambiguous briefs into sharp, opinionated product directions without needing detailed instructions on what to build.
  • •Pay close attention to the smallest product details and push back when implementation misses the design intent.
  • •Build or contribute to a design system that scales across a product.
Experience:Social appsGaming appsHigh-growth consumer apps
Skills:End-to-end ownershipAttention to detailCross-functional collaborationTurning ambiguity into directionProduct quality focus

Company Brief

Acorns
Acorns is a fintech platform that automates savings and micro-investing by rounding up purchases and investing spare change into diversified ETF portfolios, and offers banking, retirement, and family-focused financial products.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: Irvine, United States
Founded: 2012
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