Responsibilities:

• • Manage in-house creative team of copywriters delivering content across campaigns and key marketing channels
  • Coach, offer regular feedback, and support your team in defining and reaching their career goals
  • Be a top notch writer and make great work — which will also have the effect of setting standards for your team
  • Be responsible for marketing writing across the .com experience, email lifecycle marketing content, brand marketing material, campaign ideation and marketing messaging for new products and features
  • Set standards and goals for copy that makes us look great to clients as well as prospective clients
  • Be a thought leader — always advocating for and experimenting with the latest best practices within industry to improve performance results
  • Develop and maintain craft-specific documents — writing guidelines, tone of voice etc.
  • Identify team priorities, growth paths, and focus areas for you and your team

Qualification:

• • Has successfully led and mentored a team of writers
  • Is a fantastic writer — creative, engaging, and succinct
  • Recognizes great writing and creative abilities, brings out those qualities in others
  • Brings extensive experience writing for consumer-facing brands
  • Advocates for strong creative ideas across various platforms and understands the long-term importance of building a brand
  • Understands different digital channel objectives, user acquisition and business goals to ensure high customer conversion and retention
  • Moves quickly, is decisive and likes to solves complex problems through rigorous experimentation and testing — making, shipping, testing and iterating copy and content as much as possible
  • Excels at managing, resourcing and prioritizing projects and deadlines, working closely with our production team and using project management software such as Asana
  • Partners cross-functionally with designers, product managers, project managers, product marketers, and more

Qualification:

• • Has a design portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking and high proficiency in the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, balance, hierarchy, proportion, color, emphasis and unity applied across a range of touchpoints, including social, motion graphics, digital and print
  • Excellent understanding of digital and interactive design and a finger on the pulse of what’s new and innovative in digital and motion design
  • Believes in building scalable design systems that reinforce brand consistency
  • Brings energy, initiative, a good sense of prioritization and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment. You are able to see the possibilities beyond the scope of the assignment
  • Has the ability to immerse themselves in a brand and understand the nuances of how to manifest, communicate, and engage with the audience
  • Ability to engage with others (particularly junior team members) to cultivate an environment of learning and constructive dialogue about our work, engendering trust and respect
  • Has fluency with design software like Figma and After Effects. Experience in a 3D rendering software (like Cinema4D or Maya) is a plus
  • Has a BFA or MFA in design (nice to have!)

Qualification:

• • Has a design portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking and high proficiency in the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, balance, hierarchy, proportion, color, emphasis and unity applied across a range of touchpoints, including social, motion graphics, digital and print
  • Excellent understanding of digital and interactive design and a finger on the pulse of what’s new and innovative in digital design. A portfolio that shows use of your motion and 3D skills is important
  • Believes in building scalable design systems that reinforce brand consistency
  • Brings energy, initiative, a good sense of prioritization and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment. You are able to see the possibilities beyond the scope of the assignment
  • Has the ability to immerse themselves in a brand and understand the nuances of how to manifest, communicate, and engage with the audience
  • Ability to engage with others (particularly junior team members) to cultivate an environment of learning and constructive dialogue about our work, engendering trust and respect
  • Has fluency with design software: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects. Experience in a 3D rendering software (like Cinema4D) is a plus
  • Has a BFA or MFA in design (nice to have!)

Our vision is to enable all Canadians to participate in and benefit from the Crypto ecosystem no matter who they are. We aspire to build a simple, safe and trusted platform that emphasizes education and provides access to all the benefits and opportunities that crypto has to offer.

We have ambitious plans for Wealthsimple Crypto, that go much further beyond our current trading platform, and are looking for ambitious individuals that can help us shape and execute that vision.

The Crypto space is constantly evolving and can be hard to keep up with. To help keep our team at the forefront of the space, the Crypto team reserves 20% of our time to prototype and dabble with new Crypto technologies in a self-directed environment.

Our Tech Stack:

• • We have a microservice architecture with over 100+ services – these services are a mixture of Ruby on Rails, Typescript, NodeJS and front end UI libraries written in React or React Native. We favour a test driven development approach
  • We are currently evolving our architecture to adopt event-driven design with Kafka as well as using GraphQL APIs to represent our data model
  • We host our services on Amazon Web Services and use things like RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, etc.
  • We follow the latest best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking and experimenting
  • We have support from frontend platform, infrastructure, security and developer tools teams with a mission to help us work smarter and more efficiently
  • We have a Redshift based data warehouse that integrates data from our back-end that allows you build tight feedback loops between what you ship and how it impacts your feature, your product and the overall company

 

Within 1 month, you’ll:

• • Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape
  • Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company
  • Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers
  • Have an assigned buddy within your team that will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture and current projects

Within 3 months, you’ll:

• • Learn Wealthsimple’s technical stack and apply our development patterns and best practices through your work
  • Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced
  • Contribute and support work in a new or existing product and share your work with the team
  • Learn how to query our data to measure the impact of your work
  • Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first project or feature in a secure, and scalable way

Within 6 months, you’ll:

• • Reliably ship new features to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring
  • Contribute to or lead the technical design of a project, while understanding how it will shape our future architecture
  • Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews
  • Develop a big picture perspective and understand how our tools and frameworks come together. You’ll feel comfortable contributing to various codebases

Within 12 months, you’ll:

• • Lead your first project: planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timeliness
  • Have provided leverage to our engineering teams by shipping new best practices and tools for all to benefit from
  • Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the Engineering team
  • Have worked closely with our product and design teams, contributing your own feedback and opinions on design and UX

We have a high-performing IT team, one that is offering the critical daily support we all need. They’re looking for a talented new person, a software engineer within the IT team to design, develop and deploy automations, SaaS platform integration, templates, reports, and workflows for our fleet of SaaS products which help support Wealthsimple’s operations. The successful candidate will work closely with the IT team, while collaborating with other teams across the organization. This role offers the right person the opportunity to help guide Wealthsimple’s IT division in its mission to make our lives better, and more simple.

Qualification:

• • 5+ years of experience in software engineering specifically with API’s and Integrations
  • Has a minimum of 3 years experience working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, Financial Closing, Planning/Budgeting systems and finance concepts (Netsuite, Workday Adaptive Planning, Blackline, Coupa, Workiva)
  • Experienced with SQL server and carrying out basic required data manipulation
  • Experience with a wide range of IT technologies as well as the desire to learn and integrate with new tools
  • Has exceptional communication skills coupled with the ability to maintain a solid working relationship with other internal teams
  • Able to effectively work independently and project manage the tasks you’re given
  • Plans, organizes, and schedules in an efficient, productive manner
  • Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and copes effectively with complexity and change
  • Is eager to teach and learn from your team. We value making each other successful!
  • Is willing to find solutions to problems you’ve never seen before and distill complex problems into simple solutions
  • A creative mind for solving problems outside-the-box

Within 6 months, you’ll:

• • Run security workshops or CTFs to help educate and guide developers
  • Lead threat modelling sessions with product and engineering teams to ensure that all flaws are addressed before launch
  • Participate in a bug bounty triage rotation working directly with security researchers and engineers to patch vulnerabilities
  • Work closely with other security and engineering stakeholders on design decisions

Within 12 months, you’ll:

• • Have a solid understanding of Wealthsimple’s infrastructure, authentication and authorization platforms and have a strong knowledge of how our systems work
  • Propose and implement architectural changes that will strengthen the security maturity of Wealthsimple’s systems and services
  • Develop tooling and processes that will aid the Product Security and engineering teams to develop applications secure by design
  • Create plans for internal red teams and external penetration testers to test our applications

We’re looking for someone who:

• • Has experience conducting code reviews for security anti-patterns
  • Has a solid understanding of how to threat model applications and propose effective defenses
  • Enjoys mentoring and teaching, either informally or through a Security Champions program
  • Understands how to optimize a pipeline to shift security left and reduce false positives
  • Experience conducting penetration tests and working with teams to resolve findings
  • Passionate about security! we would love to learn more about your side projects and community involvement

We’re a close-knit UX team made up of broadly skilled Product Designers. We’re embedded on product teams so that we can be involved with projects from the get-go and work really closely with other disciplines at every stage of the process. We work purposefully and think big when it comes to our growth as a team and individuals. It’s important to us that we have a collaborative and supportive environment to work in every day. Our empathy for our users sets the bar really high for the products and experiences we create.

The role of Staff Designer is a level above Senior Designer in our Job Levels and equivalent to a Manager. Staff Designers do not typically have direct reports, though they may have formal 1:1 mentorship roles with others within their discipline. They are the standard-bearers for quality and consistency within their domain, and work with UX Managers to raise the bar for what we create. Every day looks different for our Staff Product Designers: You might be focused on executing high-priority, high-stakes project work as an individual contributor this week, pairing with Product Designers the next to help them take their work to the next level, and then partner with Product and Engineering Leaders to shape user-centric product strategy after.

We are hiring for multiple positions across our team to help lead design efforts.

Qualification:

• • Is an expert practitioner in the craft of product design, capable of delivering thoughtful polished experiences including motion and interaction design
  • Has a strong understanding of how design, product and engineering can work together to ship high quality experiences quickly and at scale
  • Can effectively communicate ideas and project direction to internal teams and stakeholders.
  • Advocates for rigorous, transparent, user-driven decision making through user insight
  • Generate user insight by shaping and leading research studies alongside Designers and Product Managers in your domain
  • A deep understanding of the various user research methodologies and know when to deploy each methodology based on project needs and goals
  • Thoroughly understands the strategic direction and vision for their working areas and ensures all UX efforts are aligned with that direction
  • Is excited to raise the craft quality bar at Wealthsimple not just through their own work, but through the mentoring and development of Designers in their domain
  • Has a deep personal interest and passion for personal finance, and how we might build simpler, more accessible services for everyone
  • Creates a safe and respectful team environment by empowering others and being approachable

Within 3 months you’ll:

• • Complete our company-wide onboarding program where you’ll meet and learn about all areas of our business
  • Dive into the UX process by pairing with and shadowing other members of the UX team
  • Work together with Product Management and Engineering to ship your first feature
  • Advocate for rigorous, transparent, user-driven decision making
  • Lead internal presentations and effectively disseminates learnings within the UX organization
  • Familiarize yourself with the product design process, leveraging tools and best practices in your own work

Within 6 months you’ll:

• • • Actively mentor multiple members of the UX team
    • Define the problem space through continuous discovery and exploration, crafting a deep understanding of client and business needs in your domain
    • Define and iterate upon our product development processes to suit the needs of your growing product domain
    • Effectively zoom in and out of the teams within your domain, and in doing so tackle our most complex and inter-dependent problems across the mandate
    • Clearly communicate and promote timely UX insights, translating them into actionable recommendations that inform the product strategy of the mandate

Within 12 months you’ll:

• • • Have a thorough understanding of diverse perspectives, using the latter to effectively bring the team together
    • Support with defining the overall vision and structure of the UX team
    • Take ownership of successes and failures stemming from UX decisions in your working area
    • Actively and consistently create opportunities to translate your expertise into training for others on the UX team
    • Thoroughly understand the strategic direction and vision for your working area, ensuring all UX efforts are aligned with that direction

– Your experience working on large and complex problems

– Your process, particularly how you collaborate with cross-functional partners and stakeholders

– The impact of your projects on the broader goals of the company