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Role Description

We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Understand the investing needs of our customers, empowering both new and sophisticated investors with the tools and knowledge to make informed decisions.
• Partner closely with engineering, data science and product management to find refined but practical solutions to design challenges.
• Create multiple concepts and prototypes, recognizing when meticulous attention to detail is needed and when low-fidelity sketches are adequate for visualizing ideas.
• Listen to users to develop the right product strategy and find solutions that delight our customers.
• Leverage data to inform your design solutions.
• Understand the strategic direction and vision for your working areas and ensure all UX efforts are aligned with that direction.
• Raise the craft quality bar at Wealthsimple not just through your own work, but through the mentoring and development of Designers in your domain.
• Become a subject matter expert in Stock & Option Trading.
• Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies to integrate innovative solutions into our product design.

Qualifications

• A deep interest or experience with Trading and how we might build simpler, more accessible services for everyone.
• Is an expert practitioner in the craft of product design, capable of delivering thoughtful, polished experiences, including motion and interaction design.
• Demonstrated experience designing and shipping consumer-facing products.
• Proven ability to turn complex problems into simple experiences.
• 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.
• Experience generating user insight by shaping and leading research studies.
• Ability to work independently, biasing towards action to drive projects forward.

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
• 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
• 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America