Director of Product Design, Wealthsimple
Professional investing services made simple
Open for applications
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- Experience managing and growing product designers at all levels
- A strong track record designing and building high-growth consumer-facing products
- Experience in fast-moving, high-growth environments (bonus points for consumer fintech!)
- Strong UX, visual design, and communication skills—you know how to craft a great experience and tell the story behind it
- Experience working closely with product and engineering in a collaborative environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Design Leader to head up a team of product and content designers working across our marketing website and product
- You’ll play a key role in shaping the end-to-end experience—helping people discover, sign up, and get started with our platform
- This is a high-impact role where you’ll drive strategy, execution, and experimentation to fuel our growth
- Lead and grow a team of designers, ensuring high-quality execution and impact at speed
- Define and drive design strategy in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, keeping teams aligned on shared goals
- Foster a culture of craft and storytelling, setting a high bar for UX, visual design, and user advocacy
- Bring clarity to ambiguity, especially in projects that require cross-functional collaboration or organizational change
- Coach and mentor designers, helping them grow their skills and impact
- Experiment and innovate, using research, data, and direct client insights to improve features and drive growth
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and marketing to create seamless, compelling experiences
- Scale and resource your team effectively, making sure they have what they need to succeed
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
$540.4m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $840.3m
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 9 more jobs at Wealthsimple