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# Lead Product Designer (Contract) at Acorns

- **Company:** Acorns
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/acorns/c852abe0-116f-48aa-870c-fe7817dad902

## Job description

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands. _______________________________________________________________________ Lead Product Designer, Acorns Early (4-Month Contract) | Acorns Acorns is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join the Family design team on a 4-month contract (November 2026 through end of February 2027), covering a teammate's leave and driving committed Acorns Early and Early Invest roadmap work. You'll step into active projects with established product and engineering partners, lead design direction across multiple initiatives, and raise the quality bar from day one.

This role is being offered on a contract basis with an expected duration of 4 months and requiring 40 hours of work per week.

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

What you will do at Acorns:

- Lead design across multiple Acorns Early and Early Invest initiatives, setting direction from problem framing through high-fidelity design and handoff.
- Partner with product and engineering leads to shape scope, prioritize, and make tradeoffs that keep delivery on track.
- Translate business goals and customer insight into clear product concepts and experience strategy.
- Design experiences that serve parents and kids together, with clarity and trust at the center.
- Prototype and test ideas quickly to validate direction before engineering investment.
- Guide and give feedback to other designers on the Family team, raising craft and consistency.
- Present work and rationale to senior stakeholders and build alignment across teams.
- Contribute to the Acorns design system and support engineering through build and QA.

What you will bring to Acorns:

- 8+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio of shipped consumer mobile work and clear examples of leading projects end to end.
- Proven ability to set design direction and drive alignment across product, engineering, and leadership.
- Strong strategic and conceptual thinking, paired with excellent interaction and visual craft.
- Ability to ramp up quickly on existing projects and make sound decisions with limited context.
- Experience guiding other designers through feedback and critique.
- Clear, confident communication and storytelling with senior stakeholders.
- Fluency in Figma and modern prototyping tools.
- Experience in fintech, investing, or family products is a plus.
- Hunger to deliver game-changing products.
- Exceptional drive and precision in delivery.
- A belief that your work is tied to your life's mission.
- Optimistic about the potential of societal change.

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements. If you feel passionate about Acorns' mission, vision, and values, please apply.

## What We Offer

- Competitive hourly rates
- Talented and motivated team who care deeply about one another, our mission, and our customers
- The rare opportunity to create a new world, solving big societal challenges through meaningful work

About Acorns: Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life-stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 14 million people save & invest over $25 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

Compensation Information: The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $120/hour and $140/hour; commensurate with experience and qualifications. Company reserves the right to modify hourly rate at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Work Authorization: Acorns participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information about E-Verify, please [visitwww.e-verify.gov](http://visitwww.e-verify.gov).

## About Acorns

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps individuals and families automatically save, invest, and grow money through micro-investing, round-ups, and recurring contributions.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Irvine, California, USA (with a New York office)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed on primary sources; current CEO is Noah Kerner.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Fintech, Consumer Financial Services, Micro-Investing
- **Target customers**: B2C – primarily "up-and-coming" individuals and families new to saving and investing (retail consumers).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming; beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing." [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/about/)

## Products & Services
- **Acorns Invest**: A micro-investing platform that rounds up spare change from everyday purchases and invests the difference into a diversified, professionally managed portfolio of index funds.
- **Acorns Later**: A retirement account (IRA) offering, designed to help users save for retirement with automatic contributions.
- **Acorns Spend**: A checking account with a debit card that integrates with the investing platform, allowing users to earn "Round-Ups" on purchases.
- **Acorns Early**: An investment account for children (UTMA/UGMA), enabling parents to invest for a child's future.
- **Acorns Checking**: A high-interest checking account (via FDIC-insured bank partners).
- **Acorns Premium & Personal Plans**: Subscription tiers that bundle multiple accounts (Invest, Later, Spend) with additional features like financial education content.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Acorns has raised over $500 million in funding from notable investors. [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/about/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Includes PayPal, two Nobel Prize-winning economists (Richard Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi), and other world-class investors and advisors. [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/about/)
- **Growth Signals**: The company reports 510 total employees (as of the latest data) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/acorns), has a strong brand in the micro-investing space, and maintains a flexible remote/hybrid work policy.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in micro-investing**: Acorns pioneered the "round-up" investment model, creating a simple, automated way for new investors to start.
- **Behavioral economics foundation**: The platform is designed with input from Nobel laureates in behavioral economics, making it uniquely focused on user psychology and habit formation.
- **Integrated financial ecosystem**: Offers a seamless combination of spending, saving, and investing in one app, creating high switching costs for users.
- **Strong brand trust**: Backed by major investors and a clear mission, Acorns has built credibility in the consumer fintech space.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening the financial wellness platform**: Expanding from micro-investing into banking, retirement, and family investing to become a comprehensive financial hub.
- **AI and personalization**: Investing in technology (e.g., Senior Backend Engineer, AI Team role) to leverage machine learning for personalized financial insights and recommendations. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/acorns)
- **User growth and retention**: Focusing on converting free users into paid subscribers through premium tiers and bundled services.
- **Operational efficiency**: Scaling operations while maintaining a people-first culture and flexible work environment.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes "Never stop growing," "Find a way," "Always build trust," and "Lead with heart." [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)
- **Work Flexibility**: Acorns offers fully remote or hybrid arrangements (flexible location program within the U.S.), flexible work hours, and flexible paid time off. [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive compensation with annual reviews, equity (option grants), 401k with discretionary match, comprehensive healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life), commuter benefits (NYC office), and wellness programs (monthly wellness hour, virtual yoga). [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)
- **Professional Development**: Unlimited Udemy classes sponsored by Acorns, bi-weekly 1:1s with managers, and personal development plans. [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)
- **Perks**: MacBooks provided, quarterly team outings, recognition tools (Reflektive), and a focus on building relationships. [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)
- **Interview Process**: 5 steps: application → recruiter call → team/manager interview → CEO chat (Noah Kerner) → offer. [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers work on iOS, Android, and Web apps in the finance category, focusing on innovative solutions and building a world-class product. The Data Science team uses machine learning and clean experiments to drive financial wellness. [acorns.com](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)

## Sources
1. [acorns.com - About](https://www.acorns.com/about/)
2. [acorns.com - Careers](https://www.acorns.com/careers/)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Acorns Open Positions](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Acorns)
4. [builtin.com - Acorns Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/acorns)
5. [acorns.com - Homepage](https://www.acorns.com/)

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