Product Designer - Crypto

Who we are 

M1 Finance has created a personal wealth-building platform made for the modern era, uniting personal perspective and automated ease. We seamlessly combine free investing, low cost borrowing and digital checking all in one intuitive, automated Finance Super App, and we’re driven by a mission to empower personal financial well-being. We believe that financial well-being is fundamental to overall well-being, and we strive to deliver products that are simpler, smarter, and stronger than those created by our competitors.

Our clients have already trusted us with over $6 billion of assets, we’re currently helping hundreds of thousands of people grow and manage their wealth with our industry-leading automation and tools, and we’re adding thousands of new clients every day.

We’re looking for passionate people who want to improve and build on what we’ve created and take responsibility to help others build something meaningful and sustainable for their futures.   

We mean it when we say, “M1 is yours to build.” 

If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to have you read on. 

What we’re Looking For 

We’re looking for a passionate Product Designer to join our Crypto team and help us build the Super Finance App! You’re a motivated and curious user experience expert who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment where you have full ownership over designing innovative solutions that drive the best possible outcomes for customers. And you're extra excited about leading the way in crypto!

What you’ll do

• Work with a small, cross-functional pod to define new problem spaces related to Crypto and arrive at data-informed solutions for all platforms (web, iOS, Android).
• Connect with users to listen, observe and turn their feedback into insights and ideas that drive the best outcomes.
• Rapidly ideate to get to multiple concepts, moving into detailed ­­workflows and interactions as solutions solidify, and bringing ideas to life through sketches, user flows, wireframes, prototypes and hi-fidelity visual design.
• Take full ownership of the end-to-end design solution from idea to hand-off.
• Make sound design decisions with qualitative and quantitative data as well as have the know-how to acquire that data.
• Confidently speak to your work, articulating a clear rationale for decisions that led to your solution.
• Collaborate with your design peers to ensure a consistent end-to-end experience, and to improve our design processes. 

Skills/Qualifications

• 4 years designing exceptional digital products with a portfolio that showcases your ability to move fluidly between user research, UX, UI and visual design, and the willingness to move from idea to whiteboard to execution quickly.
• An obsession for deeply understanding customer and user needs, and the ability to translate those needs into transformative product solutions.
• A track record of collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to ship multiple products that have made a measurable impact.
• A thorough understanding of responsive web design, iOS and Android platforms, UI component libraries, living design systems and modern browser technologies.
• You’re known for taking bold, calculated risks, and learning from your mistakes.
• A passion for elegant, practical design and continual experimentation, iteration and optimization.
• Basic knowledge of and interest in investing and personal finance.
• Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Our values  

Our team embodies our eight core principles and if these principles speak to you – we’d love to talk with you.   

• Mission Driven: We will passionately apply ourselves to deliver immense value to our customers, knowing if they succeed, so too will the company.  
• Extreme Ownership: We think and act like owners. Our focus is on building long-term value, not scoring short-term marks. We own everything in our domain, including the outcome and everything that affects it.  
• Boldness: We want to do things of consequence. Make a difference. We would rather fail at something meaningful than succeed at something trivial.  
• Bias for action: The best way to make progress is to act. 
• Economical: Efficiency is important, and we consider both the costs and benefits of our actions.  
• Team-oriented: In working together, we maintain a low ego, make everyone feel welcome, assume good intent, trust one another, and seek out different perspectives. We empower our teammates to be at their best.   
• Challenged, but not overwhelmed: We are curious people who always want to grow. Growth happens outside our comfort zone. We achieve our potential through consistent, manageable growth.  
• Integrity: We do the right thing. When we make mistakes, we own and correct them. We would be proud of our actions are shared with our family, friends, and strangers. Everyone can count on us to act according to our values, beliefs, and principles we state we hold. This trust must never be broken.   

Our perks  

• Unlimited PTO  
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance  
• Stock options for all employees  
• Retirement benefit with employer match  
• $500 to spend on home office equipment while working from home  
• Stylish M1 swag  
• Socially distant team outings, celebrations, and events  
• Transparent and open communication  
• Office in the Loop with a Game Room and Gym