American Century Investments®

American Century Investments®

Senior Product Designer

Kansas City, Missouri · Senior

No sponsorshipDetected 22 days ago
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About the role

  • Define and evolve the visual and interaction language across American Century and Avantis Investors' digital touchpoints, ensuring clarity, accessibility, performance, and brand consistency.
  • Prototype, test, and iterate quickly using interactive prototypes, usability testing, and experimentation informed by analytics and client insights.

Responsibilities

  • Translate brand guidelines into scalable, reusable digital patterns, components, and templates within our design system (ACDS).
  • Contribute to design critiques, documentation, and shared standards that help raise quality and consistency across teams.
  • 7+ years of hands‑on product design experience across digital products (consumer, B2B, or both).
  • Experience creating or evolving a design system, including component libraries, patterns, usage guidance, and documentation.
  • Demonstrated comfort working in cross‑functional teams and presenting design rationale to stakeholders.
  • Partner with product and engineering to turn strategy, requirements, and constraints into usable, shippable UI.
  • Solid interaction and motion design sensibility (micro-interactions, transitions) with a strong focus on accessibility (WCAG) and performance.

Requirements

  • Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto‑layout, constraints, shared styles, design tokens, and interactive prototyping.
  • Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency.

Compensation

  • 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
  • Generous PTO and competitive benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning
  • Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Company info

  • American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.
  • Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there's an unexpected side to us, too. We direct 40% of our dividends every year-over $2 billion since 2000-to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute's breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.
  • All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you're excited to learn more about us, we can't wait to learn more about you.
  • Role Summary
  • We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to help shape the next evolution of our digital ecosystem spanning customer‑facing websites and native apps, internal tools, and emerging AI‑enabled experiences for retail investors, advisors, and sales teams.
  • This role will partner closely with product, engineering, content, brand, analytics, and marketing teams.
  • American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals.
  • Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.
  • Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management.
  • But there's an unexpected side to us, too.
  • We direct 40% of our dividends every year-over $2 billion since 2000-to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.
  • Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute's breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's.
  • So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.
  • All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives.

Equal opportunity

  • As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
  • If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com.
  • All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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