Senior Product Designer

About Us

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 theres an unexpected side to us too. We direct 40% of our dividends every yearover $2 billion since 2000to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institutes breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimers. So the better we do for our clients the more we can do for everyone.

All 1400 of us across 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 youre excited to learn more about us we cant wait to learn more about you.

Role Summary

Were hiring a Senior Product Designer to help shape the next evolution of our digital ecosystem spanning customerfacing websites and native apps internal tools and emerging AIenabled experiences for retail investors advisors and sales teams.

This role will partner closely with product engineering content brand analytics and marketing teams. The role blends strong visual craft with product thinking: evolving our design language scaling our design system and applying AIassisted methods to improve how we design build and deliver digital experiences.

This is an individual contributor role with meaningful ownership and influence across multiple products and initiatives.

This role reports to VP Head of Digital and Client Experience.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City MO office.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship now or in the future.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Define and evolve the visual and interaction language across American Century and Avantis Investors digital touchpoints ensuring clarity accessibility performance and brand consistency.
• Translate brand guidelines into scalable reusable digital patterns components and templates within our design system (ACDS).
• Design endtoend experiences and highfidelity interfaces for responsive web native apps and internal toolsbalancing marketing storytelling with taskoriented utility.
• Partner with product and engineering to turn strategy requirements and constraints into usable shippable UI.
• Prototype test and iterate quickly using interactive prototypes usability testing and experimentation informed by analytics and client insights.
• Apply AIassisted tools and techniques thoughtfully within the design process (e.g. ideation content generation personalization concepts accessibility support).
• Contribute to design critiques documentation and shared standards that help raise quality and consistency across teams.

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• 7 years of handson product design experience across digital products (consumer B2B or both).
• A strong portfolio demonstrating systemsthinking responsive web and mobile experiences and the ability to scale design across multiple use cases not just oneoff screens.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma including components variants autolayout constraints shared styles design tokens and interactive prototyping.
• Experience creating or evolving a design system including component libraries patterns usage guidance and documentation.
• Demonstrated comfort working in crossfunctional teams and presenting design rationale to stakeholders.
• Practical experience using AI tools as part of the design workflow (e.g. generative visuals copy assistance promptdriven ideation or AIsupported prototyping).
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused Courageous and Accountable Collaborative Curious and Adaptable Competitively Driven.

Additional Assets (Preferred)

• Solid interaction and motion design sensibility (micro-interactions transitions) with a strong focus on accessibility (WCAG) and performance.

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities duties and skills required.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
• Generous PTO and competitive benefits
• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
• Tuition reimbursement formal mentorship program live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process please send a request to All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race religious creed color sex national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status gender gender identity gender expression age for individuals forty years of age and older military and veteran status sexual orientation and any other basis protected by applicable federal state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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