Sr. Director, Visual Design

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Want to help everyday Americans build wealth? Financial inequality is increasing and too many people are getting left behind. At Stash, we believe in the power of simplifying investing, making it easy and affordable for everyday Americans to build wealth and achieve their financial goals.

We’re one of the fastest growing fintechs in the U.S. and have had another record-breaking year. In 2021 we almost doubled our headcount and valuation. Our personal finance app makes investing easy and affordable; this year 6 million customers set aside more than $3 billion with Stash.

Prioritizing People is one of our core values and has been key to a healthy work-life balance and a great sense of fulfillment and inclusion. We employ a true people first - hybrid model. Live and work where you feel the most productive, whether that is in our home, in an office, or a combination of both. Anywhere in the US or UK.  

Let’s solve complex problems and tackle wealth inequality.

As the Sr. Director of Visual Design for Mobile & Digital Products you will lead a team responsible for the creation of an elegant, seamless, visual identity across every product touchpoint, that engages and delights customers.

Reporting to the Head of Product Design and Research, you will shape a clear vision of the future of our look and feel, motion, patterns, shapes, colors, sounds, copy, illustration, and design language.

Focus on craft, pixel perfect attention to detail, and exceedingly high aesthetic bar you will create a design system that drives visual consistency. In partnership with Brand/Marketing creative, you will deepen our brand principles and continue a seamless Stash story from marketing through the product.

We are open to Director to VP level for this role. 

Stash is a fast-paced growth company—join us to work on hard, important problems, have fun, and make history.

What You’ll Do

  • Champion and cultivate a culture of user-centered design, accessibility, and inclusion through every touchpoint in the customer journey. 
  • Establish, develop, and uphold a beautiful, elegant design language that delivers an emotionally relevant unified visual identity across the entire product experience.  
  • Responsible for all phases of Visual/UI design work: competitive audits, distilling research, ideation, final spec design, implementation, and documentation,
  • Foster collaborative relationships with UX, Brand Creative, and Marketing to deliver a unified identity and message for our customers. 
  • Deliver Design language and principles in a reliable, repeatable, and scalable design system and pixel perfect documentation (internal and external). 
  • Conduct constructive design reviews, while having the backbone to make tough calls, prioritize work, and raise the design bar on craft and quality.
  • Contribute to positive behavior design thinking, ideas, and solutions to help customers develop healthy financial habits.  
  • Develop a forward-looking trend mechanism and POV that helps Stash identify trends, design movements, and social trends to meet the customer where they will be. 

Who You Are

  • Human-centered Visual/UI design leader that cares about craft while relentlessly raises the design bar. 
  • An expert communicator at every level with the ability to flex between influencing executives and inspiring team members. 
  • Emotionally intelligent (EQ) leader that hires and develops the best, growing, and inspiring designers to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
  • Great collaborator and team player - you understand design is a team sport and when we win, we win together.
  • Relationship builder that actively develops cross-org partnerships, fosters trust, and aligns stakeholders. 
  • Ability to balance form, function, data, and UXR to inform design decisions. 
  • A thought leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, that will make an imprint on our movement to empower everyday Americans to drive their financial future.

What You Bring to the Table

  • 7-10+ years of experience in creating visual strategy and designing mobile + digital consumer products.
  • 6+ years of leading visual design teams and managing people.
  • Experience working with UX/UI designers, Design systems, Product management. 
  • Proven track record of delivering successful products.

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At Stash it is our mission to help everyday Americans invest and build wealth. That includes people of all races, genders, and abilities, so it is important to us to acknowledge and address the issues of inequality in financial services head on. 

Diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values, promoting innovation, and building the best products. Our success is directly related to our employees and we believe that our team should reflect the diversity of the customers that we serve. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds.

If you require any reasonable accommodations to make your application process more accessible please reach out to [email protected]

Invest in Yourself: 

  • Equity & Stash Accounts [Invest, Retire, Custodial, Bank]                     
  • Flexible PTO 
  • Learning & Development Fund 
  • Work from Home Space Stipends
  • Parental Leave [Primary & Secondary]

Recognition:

  • BuiltIn’s Best Places to Work (2019, 2020, 2021) 
  • Forbes Fintech 50 (2019, 2020, 2021)
  • Best Digital Bank, Finovate Awards (2020)
  • Tearsheet Challenge Awards, Best Banking Card Product - Stock-Back® Card, 2020
  • LendIt Fintech Innovator of the Year (2019 & 2020)

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We offer employees the choice and flexibility to work where you want from anywhere in the US or UK. We offer stipends to make home offices productive and for those who don't live near our NYC and London offices, to secure space when they want it.

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