Director of Experimentation

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Acorns

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Fintech • B2C

Acorns is a financial technology company that helps individuals save and invest their money through a variety of automated features. By using spare change from everyday purchases, Acorns offers a seamless way to start investing with its Round-Ups® feature and expert-built diversified portfolios. The company also provides additional services such as Acorns Later for retirement savings and Acorns Early for children's investment accounts. Acorns offers a smart money app with easy-to-use features designed to grow money skills among users, including a Bitcoin-linked ETF for cautious cryptocurrency exposure and ESG portfolios for sustainable investing. While Acorns is not a bank, it partners with financial institutions to offer Visa™ debit cards as part of their comprehensive financial service offerings.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Define, own, and communicate the company-wide experimentation strategy and roadmap, ensuring strategic alignment with broader business objectives and product goals. • Drive high-impact hypothesis generation by understanding consumer psychology and connecting insights from analytics, research, observed customer experience, and competitive trends. • Balance the experimentation portfolio to include short-term optimizations, quick wins, long-term innovation, and big swings. • Facilitate workshops to translate customer insights into testable hypotheses. • Accelerate innovation by partnering with industry experts, academics, and exploring tools like AI. • Establish, evangelize, and scale a robust culture of experimentation, building experiment acumen and practiced application across product teams. • Develop and improve lightweight, efficient processes with sufficient rigor and recordkeeping. • Establish clear guardrails for experimentation ethics, risk, controls, and interpretation to ensure statistical integrity and customer trust. • Invest in and unify supporting tools, technologies, templates, and automations. • Define and unify common metrics for measuring outcomes and comparing results across all experiments. • Facilitate retrospectives and feedback loops to continually improve experiment velocity, efficiency, and impact while removing friction. • Oversee the end-to-end experimentation lifecycle: from prioritizing high-impact ideas to experiment design, approvals, build, test, and implementation. • Lead the analysis of experiment results, collecting insights and learnings to make data-driven decisions. • Systemize the process for sharing learnings and scaling "winners" across the organization. • Team efficiently and partner closely with cross-functional leaders in Product, Product Design, Engineering, Data Analytics, Research, and Marketing.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in A/B testing, experimentation, or product growth, with a proven track record of driving significant business outcomes. • 5+ years of experience working within digital app development, demonstrating a deep understanding of the mobile product lifecycle. • 2+ years of people management experience • Deep expertise in data analysis, statistical concepts (e.g., p-values, confidence intervals), and power analysis. • Proficiency with modern A/B testing platforms (experience with Amplitude is a strong bonus). • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex data into a clear, actionable narrative for diverse audiences, including senior leadership. • Demonstrated experience motivating, supporting, and developing team members to meet performance expectations and build their careers • Ability to align company vision and organizational goals with team execution • Commitment to upholding policy and procedures per company standards. • Own strategic decision-making and effectively communicate direction to team members. • A strategic mindset paired with a hands-on, detail-oriented approach to execution. • Hunger to deliver game-changing products. • Exceptional drive and precision in delivery. • A belief that your work is tied to your life's mission. • Optimistic about the potential of societal change.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 & GoHenry 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.