Senior Product Design Leader

📋 Description

• Your career is an investment that grows over time!

• Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money.

• Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone.

• We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

• Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas.

• We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

• At Wealthsimple, design is a competitive advantage and essential to achieving our mission of helping Canadians reach financial freedom.

• We are also client-obsessed - our empathy for our clients sets the bar really high for the products and experiences we create.

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days

• Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively

• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year

• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year