Staff Product Designer, Investing

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About the role

  • Staff Product Designer focused on improving financial services at Wealthsimple. Collaborating with engineering and product to shape client offerings and enhance user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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