We’re looking for an experienced motion designer to join Wealthfront’s Creative Team, reporting to our Visual Creative Director. As a pioneer in automated investing and money management, we offer tools and services to make achieving financial dreams more accessible to a broader range of people than ever before. Our team is dedicated to delivering exceptional creative solutions that inspire, engage, and drive results.
As Wealthfront’s first Motion Designer, you’ll help define Wealthfront's approach to motion from the ground up, bringing our work to life through inventive and impeccable execution. Your work will help transform complex financial ideas into simple “ah-ha” narratives that feel modern, approachable, and motivating—challenging assumptions about what a financial brand can look and feel like.
You’ll be responsible for collaborating closely with cross-functional colleagues to create a wide range of awesome things:
Working directly with creative peers to develop narrative frameworks and visual metaphors that translate complex financial systems, data, and behaviors into clear, memorable stories across brand, product, and editorial surfaces. These stories and campaign assets come to life across webpages, emails, social media, connected TV, and product—adapting narratives to channel-specific best practices.Defining how our brand guidelines come to life as a system, visualizing the ins and outs of complex financial products with clarity, consistency, and just the right amount of flair. Working with our communications and research team to turn data-driven, timely editorial content into engaging, share-able social videos.Supporting product designers with subtle in-product implementations that produce outsized impact on our product experience, and helping uplevel interactive prototypes.
Our motion lead will be a collaborative hands-on doer and a wonder-worker with pixels, who has a knack for putting just the right surprise in just the right spot to get someone to smash that sign-up button.
You believe in our mission. You know that money can be both intimidating and empowering, and you feel invested in our vision of how well-managed finances can reduce worry and enable our clients to live their lives more fully. You are motivated to make a meaningful impact, to improve the financial system, and to do your part to define a brand that is working to do just that.You sweat the small stuff. You recognize that the line between ok and exceptional can be very, very thin, and you’re innately driven to stay on the correct side of it. You make considered decisions in your work, can effectively defend your creative choices, and are ready to revise your opinions in the face of compelling arguments because you care—deeply—about making the work the best it can be. You have a strong point of view, excellent craft, and a knack for knowing when a moment of surprise can meaningfully elevate the experience, and when restraint is the right call.You expect your work to serve the team. You know that your way isn’t always the right way, and you're eager to contribute, even when it might be outside your typical skill set. You understand there’s always more you can learn, and you look forward to opportunities to add to your creative arsenal.You are resourceful and enterprising. You think like an owner, are solutions-oriented, and adapt quickly to the constraints and challenges of a nimble team in a fast-paced, rapidly growing business.You create memorable, engaging things that might-or-might-not look like marketing. You have experience finding the moments that bring a brand to life. You’re happy designing for webpages, in-product interactions, social media, Instagram ads, emails, and everything both in between and beyond. Whether big or small, you look for ways to intersect consumers’ lives to communicate a brand truth in a way that feels relevant, authentic, and memorable.
Impact:
Pioneer motion’s role at Wealthfront, amplifying our brand, product, and marketing experience through storytelling-driven animation.Lead large, complex motion initiatives with a focus on narrative clarity—shaping visual metaphors and adapting story-telling to the best practices of the channels they’ll live on.Foster strong partnerships with marketing, product, design, and research teams to define project goals and scope, while ensuring motion solutions are grounded in audience insight, financial literacy, and intended behavioral outcomes.Deliver unique impact through exceptional motion design craft, balancing expressiveness with clarity and scalability, and anticipating longer-term brand system needs.
Leadership:
Establish new processes that enable the creative team to ideate, prototype, and evaluate motion and interaction concepts, partnering cross-functionally to uncover where motion can unlock greater product and business impact.Advocate for motion as a strategic discipline—demonstrating how thoughtful animation improves comprehension, confidence, and decision-making in complex financial experiences.Share knowledge, mentor and guide other team members to better understand the possibilities of motion and recognize opportunities where motion can meaningfully clarify abstract or unfamiliar concepts.
Creative Development and Oversight:
Uplevel creative campaigns and multi-touch experiences from concept to delivery, incorporating stakeholder feedback effectively.Take on ambiguous problems by workshopping with peers to explore a wide range of narrative approaches, distilling them into focused, intuitive motion solutions that move from concept to execution.Steward Wealthfront’s motion guidelines as a system—proactively identifying opportunities to improve consistency, clarity, and reusability of motion patterns across all touchpoints.Confidently lead team meetings and working sessions without managerial oversight—articulating and defending motion design decisions through clear narrative rationale, audience insight, and business context, while driving alignment across stakeholders.
Preferred Experience:
8+ years as a motion designer in an agency, studio, or in-house creative team.Strong background in consumer driven digital marketing and product storytelling, with experience explaining complex or abstract concepts through motion across web, email, social media, Connected TV, and product surfaces.Experience developing motion systems and principles for a brand, consistently adapting effective motion expressions across brand touchpoints.Technical motion production skills with After Effects (or similar tools), with fluency in delivering assets and specifications for engineering and production partners. Bonus: 3D modeling and rendering skills.Bonus: Illustration or drawing skills.
If you’re a creative rising star with a passion for storytelling and a drive to create impactful work, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and make your mark in the world of money.
We’re a remote-friendly team and open to candidates in the US and parts of Canada—with opportunities to meet and collaborate in-person for occasional company and team-specific events.
Estimated annual salary: ~$189,000 USD, plus equity.
Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan + matching, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!
About Wealthfront
Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.
We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business. By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, we've expanded to a full suite of products designed to help our clients turn their savings into long-term wealth, including:
- A Cash Account that, through our partner banks, offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, while providing instant and secure access to your money with no account fees and a full suite of checking features.
- A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
- Multiple automated investing portfolios designed to unlock tax savings through sophisticated strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing—which we offer at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums.
Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $85 billion of their hard earned savings—and we're far from done. If you’re inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let’s talk!
For more information please visit
www.wealthfront.com.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Disclosures: All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile. Wealthfront doesn’t provide tax advice. The Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), Member of FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance. Investment management and advisory services–which are not FDIC insured–are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser. The checking features offered in the Wealthfront Cash Account are provided by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the
Deposit Account Agreement for details.
By “award-winning products”, please refer to
www.wealthfront.com/reviews for more information. Wealthfront Corporation oversees Total Client Assets and Trusted Clients through Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage. Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wealthfront Corporation.
