Talent & Performance Lead, Wealthsimple
1 Year Contract
Professional investing services made simple
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Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10 years in HR, Talent, or People Program roles with experience building and delivering talent or performance programs in high-growth environments
- Learning & Development experience in a fast scaling company
- Experience designing and running performance cycles and frameworks at scale
- Exposure to career pathing, talent management, or talent development initiatives
- Ability to manage projects end-to-end, with strong stakeholder management
- Comfort with HR systems and data to track and report on program effectiveness
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a builder to join our People team as we scale the next chapter of Talent & Performance at WS. You’ll design, build, and operationalize talent development programs that drive measurable impact across WS focusing on performance, career pathing, development, and talent density
- You’ll bring clarity, consistency, and speed to how we grow and develop our people while keeping things simple and effective for managers and employees
- Building and developing our Performance programs: Own the design and development of our performance cycles (goal setting, calibrations, feedback), ensuring clarity, fairness, and high adoption
- Developing career frameworks: Create and iterate clear, scalable career pathing frameworks to support growth, transparency, and manager enablement
- Driving talent density initiatives: Help us identify, develop, and retain top talent while enabling a high-performing environment
- Supporting employer brand delivery: Partner with TA and Comms to ensure our talent programs reinforce our external and internal brand story
- Simplifying and scaling: Build programs that work in a fast-paced fintech environment, balancing structure with speed and practicality
- Measuring impact: Establish clear success metrics and gather insights to continuously improve our programs
- Partnering deeply: Work with HRBPs, TA, and business leaders to ensure programs align with business needs and are easy to adopt for execution and delivery
- Builder & Operator: You love taking programs from concept to launch, iterating quickly, and turning complex challenges into simple, scalable solutions
- Tech-Savvy & AI-Minded: You’re comfortable leveraging modern HR tech and AI tools to automate, personalize, and enhance learning and talent programs
- Outcome-Focused: You measure success by real business impact
- Strategic Doer: You can design frameworks, set clear strategy, and dive into the details to get things shipped efficiently
- Collaborative Partner: You work seamlessly with HR, TA, and business leaders to design programs that truly move the needle
- Clear Communicator: You can distill complex ideas into clear, compelling messages that drive stakeholder buy-in and action
- Fast-Paced & Adaptable: You thrive in dynamic environments, balancing speed with thoughtful execution
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratize investment management. These companies are disrupting the industry by automating many of the processes involved in investment removing the need for human advisors.
But while other so-called robo-advisors are focused on courting the high end of the market, Wealthsimple is trying to provide the same types of tools and advice to all users, regardless of the amount they have to invest.
Wealthsimple does have higher fees than some other robo-advisors such as Betterment and Charles Schwab. However, the company believes that it provides a more user-friendly platform, tailored to millennials who will be attracted to Wealthsimple due to its ease of use and social impact offerings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$544.7m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $845.6m
Company benefits
- Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
- Company equity for full-time employees
- Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
- Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
- 20 vacation days per year
- 90 Days Away program
- Top-tier health benefits
- Life & disability insurance
- Generous sick and mental health days
- Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
- Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
- Gender Affirmation benefits
- Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
- Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
- Employee resource groups
- Social impact hours
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Katchen
(CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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