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Lead Product Designer (Contract)

Acorns· Design
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Remote$120/hr - $140/hrContractPosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead Product Designer to join the Family design team on a 4-month contract, driving Acorns Early and Early Invest roadmap work and raising the design bar from problem framing to high-fidelity delivery.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio of shipped consumer mobile work and 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.

Skills

Required:Product designDesign leadershipCommunication & storytellingFigma
Nice to have:Fintech / investing / family products

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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