Experimentation Intern

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility

Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future

Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team

Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress

Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands

Experimentation Intern | Acorns

Acorns is looking for an Experimentation Intern to help Acorns build its Experimentation practice and drive innovative improvements across multiple customer journeys. You’ll gain real-world experience helping cross-functional teams prioritize experiment ideas, test those ideas with customers, and learn from the results. In addition, you will help Acorns uplevel its practice efficiency, processes, and ways of working.

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA. This role has the option to be remote within the United States or based in our Irvine, CA office. This role has an expected time commitment of 20-40 hours/week. 

Work sponsorship is not available for this role, including Curricular Practical Training (CPT), Optional Practical Training (OPT), F-1 Visa program, and other visa sponsorships.

What you will do at Acorns:

• Support the Acorns Growth team to run effective and efficient experimentation routines, recordkeeping, and process.

• Improve processes, tools, and technologies used to facilitate experimentation.

• Help write experimentation requirements in partnership with product managers, product design leads, and data analysts.

• Take on special projects including documenting best practices, researching potential innovative solutions, and driving research projects.

• Support active usability studies and experiments, including mobile, web and AI-based improvements.

• Work closely with cross functional teams to diagnose ways to improve experimentation speed and effectiveness.

• Build focus maps to bring together customer experience, research, analytics, and VOC to clarify customer problems and opportunities for experiment ideation.

What you will bring to Acorns:

• Ambition to help the lives of millions of Americans start and grow their knowledge and behaviors to save and invest for their future.

• Strong work ethic and problem solving skills.

• Creativity and innovation to address opportunities for internal and external customers.

• Project management skills to keep careful track of tasks, dependencies, and deadlines.

• Self-starting initiative to see what can be done, and try it.

• Strong communication, team-building, and collaboration skills to quickly build relationships with team members.

• Basic understanding of mobile app and web customer experiences, and a willingness to explore creative digital best-practices across industries and competitors.

• Ability to dig into data and look for patterns, correlations, and insights.

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements. If you feel passionate about Acorns' mission, vision, and values, please apply.  

What we offer: 

• This is a paid internship with a competitive hourly wage.

• We’re flexible on where and when you work. Acorns is a remote-first organization with optional access to our office space in Irvine, CA if you’re nearby.

• You’ll be mentored by experienced leaders of all disciplines. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with partners across the company.

• You’ll have the chance to learn how experimentation works in a fast-paced, digital-first company that prioritizes innovation.

• Acorns is full of 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.

About Acorns:

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life-stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 14 million people save & invest over $25 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

Compensation Information:

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be $20.00/hour.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify hourly rates (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Work Authorization:

Acorns participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov