Acorns

Technical Program Manager

• Infrastructure Strategy: Collaborate with Trading Operations, Risk, and Data Science to define and execute the trade, risk, and operations roadmap, ensuring Acorns’ day to day trading is able to scale and Acorns’ risk platform is dynamic to enable net new product opportunities.
• Customer Experience Optimization: Improve on the day to day trading experience and lead improvements for the product experience directly related to risk and trading in order to deliver a high quality customer experience while inserting “Smart Friction” to keep Acorns’ customers safe.
• Risk Workflow Orchestration: Build and manage tools that empower Risk Operations teams to update rules and manage queues independently, reducing the need for constant engineering support.
• Vendor Management: Lead the evaluation and implementation of third-party trading, risk and operations tools improve operational efficiency and unlock new capabilities for the company and product.
• Operational Efficiency: Treat "Operations as a Customer" by driving AI workflow strategies and tools that help scale the existing team's value and efficiency.

Backend Engineer

• Understand Acorns’ mission, vision, strategic objectives, and fintech industry knowledge while building relationships with team members, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Review and analyze proprietary datasets, existing Vector database architecture, pipelines, and tools to identify gaps and propose improvements.
• Contribute to key customer-facing projects, debugging and enhancing models, scaling pipelines, and delivering the virtual support bot MVP to production.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align AI efforts with business goals, mentor junior team members, and drive innovation through LLM capabilities.
• Optimize data pipelines, establish scalable monitoring processes, and develop a roadmap for innovation aligned with fintech objectives.

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Team

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Assist in building and updating financial models and scenarios to inform long-term forecasting and strategic decision-making
• Partner with Product, Marketing, and Data teams to provide financial insights that support ongoing business initiatives and growth.
• Streamline finance workflows by identifying opportunities for automation and enhancing existing analytical tools to accelerate decision-making.
• Contribute to ad-hoc analyses and high-impact presentations that provide leadership with visibility into the company’s financial health
• Develop a deep understanding of our product, business model, and the competitive landscape

Finance Intern

Business Analyst

• Develop, implement, and maintain scalable strategies to mitigate financial risks associated with money movement and referral programs.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across Banking, Invest, Analytics, Data Science, and Product teams to align risk strategies with company growth.
• Query complex data environments to convert raw data into actionable information and automated processes; increase the analytic rigor used to drive key initiatives on the Risk and Product roadmaps.
• Define, monitor, and report on daily, weekly, and monthly KPIs; proactively escalate anomalies and drive improvements in loss budgets while balancing customer false-positive rates.
• Develop a deep understanding of the technical infrastructure supporting our core products to identify and address potential vulnerabilities effectively.
• Make meaningful contributions to reducing financial losses and expenses, ensuring our risk practices are best-in-class and customer-focused.

Risk Management Analyst

Content Creator

• Create social-first content end to end: concept → script → shoot → edit → publish → learn.
• Develop, manage, and execute a dynamic content calendar across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms, optimized by channel.
• Translate Acorns’ mission, products, and everyday customer moments into relatable, scroll-stopping storytelling.
• Build and evolve repeatable content formats (hooks, series, visual language) that scale.
• Stay deeply plugged into culture, trends, and platform behavior—and move fast when something’s working.
• Experiment relentlessly with tone, pacing, structure, and formats to improve retention, saves, shares, and conversation.
• Capture and create a mix of:
• UGC-style, in-house content
• Educational explainers that don’t feel like ads
• Behind-the-scenes moments (team, product, culture)
• Trend-driven and reactive formats
• CEO led content
• Real customer moments
• Partner with Marketing, Creative, Product, and Comms to turn strategy into content experiments—not overbuilt campaigns.
• Engage directly with our community through comments, replies, stitches, and duets, helping social feel participatory, not broadcast.
• Analyze performance and double down on what resonates, prioritizing learning and impact over polish.
• Scope and manage creators as needed for social content and partnerships.

Technical Program Manager

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Team

Finance Intern

Risk Management Analyst

Content Creator – Organic Social