Staff Product Designer, Investing

The Staff Product Designer will partner closely with engineering, data science, and product management to shape the future of the Brokerage product offering and deliver high-quality client experiences. Responsibilities include understanding investing needs, creating concepts and prototypes, leveraging data, and raising the craft quality bar through personal work and mentoring.

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

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

Key Skills