Betterment Careers in NYC

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You’re product-oriented and excited to work with our marketing, product, design, and engineering teams to bring new features to market that revolutionize personal savings and investing. You’re an expert at building marketing insights from analysis, tests, and customer intuition, and you are eager to develop your strategic marketing capabilities. You are an adept multitasker, who enjoys being at the hub of a cross-functional team to bring a new feature to market.

You have a wealth of experience to draw from, with a background in building and automating, reliable, secure, scalable solutions in the cloud.  You are highly motivated by all tasks that come across your desk which range from delivering new tools and systems that make engineering more impactful to working with your peers to help maintain and improve current systems. You are always keeping up with what is going on within the tech industry and strive to learn and share your knowledge with colleagues all while maintaining high productivity. You are intrigued by how to use metrics to effectively drive change. You have a passion for architecting solutions and understand the value of not over-engineering them.

About this role: Your primary responsibility is to manage marketing project timelines, from kick-off to final delivery. You will be the ambassador for cross-functional communication, including working with business owners to determine project prioritization, scheduling, tracking deliverables, gathering feedback, managing expectations, and facilitating the delivery of completed materials. You will be responsible for understanding the objectives of each project, ensuring that directions and creative insight have been properly communicated and acted upon. 

In this role, you will collaborate with our copywriters to develop compelling and engaging social media content on both our paid and organic channels. You will be in charge of bringing social and digital video creative content to life from start to finish. Beginning with creative brief, you will translate your vision into storyboard concepts, work closely with business partners to address feedback, and work independently to bring your vision to life. 

You are a process driven individual who loves checking items off your to-do list. You are always thinking of ways to make complicated tasks more efficient, while keeping a keen eye on the big picture. You have a knack for foreseeing when a situation could be risky and quickly resolving it appropriately. You are extremely detail-oriented with a passion for organization. You grasp complex topics quickly and are adept at thinking on your feet to solve problems in a creative and holistic manner. You are a strong communicator who enjoys interacting with other people to address any issue that comes your way. You are excited to support our customer operations team and play a crucial role in keeping our business growing and running smoothly.

Execute on our broker-dealer compliance functions. Work with the broker-dealer Operations and Trading teams to ensure regulatory compliance with applicable rules and regulations. Complete the annual review of the broker-dealer’s compliance program and independent AML audit. Manage broker-dealer core compliance obligations, including, registration processes, continuing education, annual training. Update written supervisory procedures and draft desktop procedures for broker-dealer functions. Assist with our regulatory and annual compliance examinations. Monitor employee communications in accordance with the firm’s e-surveillance program. And so much more!

Contribute directly to projects that help us improve our customers’ financial lives. Contribute to product strategy by identifying new opportunities, generating innovative solutions, crafting emotionally engaging designs, and improving existing features. Partner with product management, engineering and many others, working closely in cross-disciplinary teams. Be responsible for all aspects of design for your projects from inception through launch. Make informed design decisions based on competitor analysis, customer feedback, site metrics and usability reports. Further develop your design chops, working among a talented team of designers, providing one another feedback and perspective, aiming for a cohesive experience across all touchpoints. Establish and maintain design principles and patterns to be used across all channels and experiences. Add depth and polish to our recently updated brand.

As our Head of Sales you will be responsible for supporting the professional development and mentorship of team members with a focus on developing an effective sales culture. You will enable our sales organization to drive and sustain revenue growth by creating efficient systems and sales processes. You’ve always been a high performer, and you will effectively manage the team to empower them to exceed their sales targets. You have direct experience managing teams within high-growth technical environments.

Plan and coordinate the implementation of a new learning management system. Help create and implement training necessary to onboard all employees. Assist in other projects related to our Talent Development priorities. Provide support to our Talent Development Team.

You are a talented and focused product manager. You are a natural collaborator and love being part of a cross-functional team. You relish rolling up your sleeves and explaining complex requirements to engineers, designers, and data analysts...and you also can build effective, high-performing relationships with technical and strategic partners outside the company. You are masterful in prioritizing effectively and making tradeoffs across a range of tasks and initiatives. You live for iteration and know that the job of building software is never done.

Build things people love. Our goal is to delight our customers whenever possible. Sleek design, efficient workflows, simple user experience, and access to sophisticated advice. Solve challenging problems and change an industry while you do it. Take your ideas to the next level right away and see the impact you can have. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat. Coach and mentor our engineers so they grow in their craft of creating and maintaining high quality software and supporting systems. Lead design reviews and perform code reviews, providing valuable and actionable feedback to peers. Collaborate, with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.

Enjoy hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring a team of talented engineers. Have a real passion for software engineering and building what doesn’t yet exist. Expertise in Java, Spring, and Hibernate (or a similar server-side stack). Enjoy discussions about trading algorithms and mathematical optimization problems. Know when to make the trade-offs required to ship without compromising quality. Appreciate that investing in solid tests pays for itself several times over. Value agility and pragmatism in software development. Have a track record of leading highly productive engineering teams.

You’re a performance marketer at heart and get psyched about new ways to introduce people to products that can help them live better. You know how to build relationships and negotiate with affiliate partners in order to drive meaningful customer growth with positive ROI. You have a deeply data-driven, systematic, and creative mindset, which you’ve applied to successfully optimize affiliate marketing portfolios and programs. Attribution and modeling excites you, and you don’t rest until you can tell thoughtful data stories to evolve your execution strategies. Data not immediately available? No problem! You think creatively to develop frameworks to assess both effectiveness and opportunity. 

We are looking for an experienced analytics leader to direct these efforts. This person will be responsible for managing and mentoring a team of product analysts and data scientists embedded within our Retail product organization. This individual will be a core member of the Retail product leadership team, working closely with product, engineering and design partners to drive strategy, measure performance from the line of business to the feature level, and ensure the team is set up for success with the right data and tools.