Staff Product Designer

About the role

As a Staff Product Designer specializing in design systems, you'll evolve our cross-platform design system, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to accelerate product development and deliver exceptional user experiences. You'll champion visual craft, consistency, and accessibility, enabling our teams to achieve high-quality outcomes efficiently and at scale.

At Betterment, we hire designers who are passionate about personal finance, and building intuitive, delightful experiences for customers to manage their money. You approach problems holistically, and are self-motivated, learning new skills quickly, with a sense for what you'll develop next. We seek out folks who are talented and eager to both learn from their colleagues and help make them better. As a design team, we're focused and always strive for excellence.

This role is remote eligible. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position in locations with city or state requirements. For those located elsewhere, the actual compensation offered will be based on candidate experience and geographic location. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment's total compensation package for employees.

• New York City: $165,000-$190,000
• Other locations: $140,250-$171,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

A day in the life

• Partner deeply with engineers to ensure component parity, pixel-perfect execution, and performance in web (React) and mobile (Flutter) platforms
• Establish and maintain accessible, high-quality standards, empowering teams to meet WCAG compliance and consistency
• Evolve and scale our cross-platform design system, serving diverse product teams across three distinct business lines on web and mobile
• Prioritize initiatives strategically to maximize adoption, efficiency, and impact while maintaining robust documentation, design principles, and component libraries in Figma
• Mentor designers and foster best practices, guiding the creation and adaptation of design system components for new use cases

What We're Looking For:

• Familiarity or experience working directly in frontend technologies, or demonstrated comfort collaborating closely with engineers on technical implementation details.
• 7+ years delivering impactful, product design work, with a meaningful stretch focused on building and scaling design systems at a mid to large size, multi‑product company.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, system thinking, accessibility expertise, and proven business impact
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; ability to align diverse stakeholders
• Strong organizational abilities, adept at managing multiple projects and timelines
• Strategic approach to design that clearly connects to business and user outcomes
• Experience leveraging research, usability testing, and analytics to inform decisions
• Link to portfolio required