Staff Product Designer, Brokerage

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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 3 million users who trust us with more than $30 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.

About the team At Wealthsimple, design is a competitive advantage and essential to achieving our mission of helping Canadians reach financial freedom. We are client obsessed - our empathy for our clients sets the bar really high for the products and experiences we create.

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Staff Product Designer* to work on our Brokerage product. In this role you will be embedded on the Investing team, partnering closely with engineering and product to shape the future of our offering and deliver a high quality product to our clients.

*Staff Product Designers are a level above Senior Product Designers at Wealthsimple (equivalent to a Manager, but without any direct reports).

In this role you will:

• 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.

Skills we are looking for:

• A deep interest or experience with Trading and how we might build simpler, more accessible services for everyone.
• 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.

If you’re excited to be part of Wealthsimple's mission, please apply with your resume and a portfolio that demonstrates:

• Your experience solving ambiguous problems & how you got there.
• Your experience working on consumer-facing products (mobile and web).
• The impact of your work on the broader goals of the company.
• How you leverage insights to make user-driven decisions.