acorns
Money is the tool that decides how much of life people get to live on their own terms. For over a decade, Acorns has helped millions of everyday Americans start investing — often for the first time in their lives. Most of the finance industry profits by encouraging people to spend, trade, and borrow more. We built our business on the opposite bet: that helping people invest, save, and build wealth over the long term is both the right thing to do and the better business. Now we're building that same belief into the next generation. We think every kid should grow up already knowing how to invest, not learning it the hard way at 30. That's a genuinely new category of product — not a feature bolted onto a banking app — and we're looking for a Senior Product Manager to help build it from the ground up. Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.
You'll own how families discover, adopt, and grow with Acorns' family investing products — from the moment a parent first encounters what we offer through building it into a lasting habit. You'll set the strategy for that experience and bring it to leadership to align on the biggest bets. You'll shape a vision across parents, teens, and kids—making earning, investing, and building wealth feel natural from an early age.
- Own the strategy and roadmap for how families discover and grow with Acorns' family investing products, from first exposure through building lasting habits. - Create new consumer experiences from first principles, designing tools that introduce millions of children to investing before adulthood. - Partner closely with Design and Engineering to build products that customers genuinely love. - Use research, customer insight, and data to uncover unmet needs and shape product direction. - Balance long-term vision with rapid experimentation, making smart tradeoffs along the way. - Lead cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences with speed and quality. - Champion our mission in every product decision, ensuring we act as missionaries for our customers’ financial well-being. - Design strategies that deeply align business and customer incentives, prioritizing sustainable, long-term value. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 8+ years of product management experience building exceptional consumer products. - Experience leading zero-to-one or highly ambiguous product initiatives. - Strong product intuition, analytical rigor, and deep customer empathy. - A track record of building products that drive engagement, habit formation, or long-term customer loyalty. - Exceptional cross-functional leadership and communication skills. - A behavior-driven mindset, comfortable with ambiguity because it creates room to invent. - Deep alignment with our mission—you see yourself as a missionary, driven by the impact your work has on families' futures. - Bonus: Experience with onboarding, activation, consumer growth, marketplaces, creator tools, social products, or network effects. Fintech experience is not required; we prefer someone who has built extraordinary consumer products over someone who has only built financial products. - Bonus: Fluency with AI tools to move faster in your own workflow, and experience shaping or shipping AI-powered features for customers — not required, but a real asset to this team. WHAT WE OFFER: - Competitive salary and stock options - A comprehensive benefits package for you and your family - Flexible work location, hours, and paid time off - 401(k) matching - Monthly Acorns account contribution & Acorns Early account for your family - Mindfulness and Financial Wellness resources, Headspace and Addition Wealth - Acorns Career Development Program (Ongoing training sessions, development plans, development check-ins, Cornerstone’s online training platform) - Roots Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders - Community week onsite gatherings and various virtual events - Talented and motivated team members who care deeply about one another, our mission, and our customers. - The rare opportunity to create a new world. We inspire one another every day to do meaningful work that solves big societal challenges. You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements. If you feel passionate about Acorns' mission, vision, and values, please apply. 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 $27 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 $180,000 to $200,000; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including equity grants, and discretionary cash bonus awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) 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 visit www.e-verify.gov http://www.e-verify.gov