Job Description
Content Designer
at Addepar
Remote, USA
Who We Are
Addepar’s purpose is to maximize the positive impact of the world’s capital. More than 700 of the world’s leading financial services firms trust Addepar to unlock the power and possibility of informed, data driven investing and advice. These family offices, wealth managers, banks and institutions use Addepar’s purpose-built SaaS platform and associated Marketplace to deliver exceptional value to their clients in a modern, scalable and secure way.
Our clients use Addepar to manage and advise on more than $3.5 trillion in assets, and we’ve been adding more than $15 billion per week for many consecutive quarters, making us one of the fastest growing companies in fintech. Our board and investors are some of the best in the business: D1 Capital, WestCap, 8VC and Valor Equity Partners have led our last few rounds.
We’re now expanding Addepar’s business around the globe, with clients in more than 25 countries. We’re constantly doubling down on tech- and data-fueled innovation, and our product and platform roadmap is more ambitious today than ever. We place our clients at the center of everything we do, and see a virtually unlimited set of opportunities to expand our client footprint and deepen the value we can unlock by building together.
Addepar is a Forbes Fintech 50 company and an honored member of the CB Insights Fintech 250. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City and Edinburgh, Scotland.
*Marketplace and brokerage services provided by Acervus Securities, Inc., an SEC registered brokerdealer and member FINRA / SIPC.
The role
The Design Department at Addepar shapes wealth managers’ digital experiences. By designing and delivering intuitive, easy-to-use products, we help wealth managers grow their businesses and provide best-in-class services to their clients. We foster an agile, client-centered work environment with a focus on constructive feedback and collaboration. We’re passionate about delivering innovative, accessible, and beautiful products that redefine our clients’ day-to-day financial activities.
We’re looking for a motivated, collaborative, and creative individual that’s excited to contribute and grow in their content design career.
In this role, you’ll help set the vision for product content, and write useful, meaningful copy that helps users complete tasks.
Our ideal candidate is passionate about crafting intuitive, innovative, and beautiful user experiences that people love. You enjoy simplifying complexity and making traditionally technical and overwhelming experiences easy and enjoyable.
This role is part of the Product organization and collaborates with product management, design, and engineering. This is not a content marketing role.
What you’ll do
- Develop knowledge of the users, workflows, and problems in your product areas and contribute to the vision for them.
- Balance empathy, logic, and data to make informed content decisions.
- Design UI copy for interactions, notifications, error messages, and more.
- Develop and maintain clear, easy-to-follow help articles.
- Publish release notes for new features and bug fixes.
- Collaborate with and influence product management, design, and engineering teams.
- Regularly share and solicit feedback on your work.
- Help facilitate productive meetings, working sessions, and workshops.
- Uphold our brand principles and guidelines for product language and tone.
- Learn and gain expertise in design and operational tools at Addepar.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience writing for products. This can be for hardware, software, or at a digital agency.
- A portfolio of UX writing samples that showcase how you think about and approach designing exceptional content experiences.
- High emotional intelligence. People enjoy working with you.
- Exceptional writing, collaboration, communication, and presentation skills.
- Some experience working with design and prototyping tools like Figma.
- Some experience in the finance industry is not required, but a huge plus.
Our Values
- Act Like an Owner – Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
- Build Together – Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
- Champion Our Clients – Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
- Drive Innovation – Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
- Embrace Learning – Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.
In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.
To ensure the health and safety of all Addepeeps and our prospective candidates, we have instituted a virtual interview and onboarding experience.
