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 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 1,400 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 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. The role blends strong visual craft with product thinking: evolving our design language, scaling our design system, and applying AI‑assisted 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 end‑to‑end experiences and high‑fidelity interfaces for responsive web, native apps, and internal tools—balancing marketing storytelling with task‑oriented 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 AI‑assisted 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 hands‑on product design experience across digital products (consumer, B2B, or both).
- A strong portfolio demonstrating systems‑thinking, responsive web and mobile experiences, and the ability to scale design across multiple use cases, not just one‑off screens.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto‑layout, 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 cross‑functional teams and presenting design rationale to stakeholders.
- Practical experience using AI tools as part of the design workflow (e.g., generative visuals, copy assistance, prompt‑driven ideation, or AI‑supported 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 [email protected]. 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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American Century Investments® is a leading asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve health and save lives. It’s how we help our clients Prosper With Purpose™. Every day people are increasingly focused on investing to make the world a better place for themselves, their families, their organizations, and the world at large. It is possible to live a more meaningful and impactful life and give back something that’s more valuable than money. When you invest with us, you can also invest in the future of others and have the potential to impact the lives of millions. That’s possible because of the distinct relationship with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, which owns more than 40% of American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide the ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer. Together we can become a powerful force for good…it’s like nothing you’ve seen before from an investment management firm.
