Director, Product Design

Wealthsimple; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead a talented team in creating impactful financial solutions. This high-impact role emphasizes collaboration across product, engineering, and marketing, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence in user experience. You will define design strategies that align with business goals and mentor designers to enhance their skills. Join a remote-first team dedicated to transforming financial services and making them accessible to all. If you are passionate about design and want to shape the future of finance, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Competitive salary

Top-tier health benefits

Retirement savings matching plan

20 vacation days per year

Unlimited sick and mental health days

$1,500 per year for wellness

90 days away program

Employee Resource Groups

Company-wide wellness days off

Qualifications

• Experience managing and growing product designers at all levels.
• Strong UX, visual design, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of designers, ensuring high-quality execution.
• Define and drive design strategy in partnership with Product and Engineering.

Skills

Product Design Management

UX Design

Visual Design

Communication Skills

Collaboration with Engineering

Job 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.

About the team:

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 Director of Product Design 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.

In this role you will:

• Lead and grow a team of designers, ensuring high-quality execution and impact at speed.
• Define and drive design strategy in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, keeping teams aligned on shared goals.
• Foster a culture of craft and storytelling, setting a high bar for UX, visual design, and user advocacy.
• Bring clarity to ambiguity, especially in projects that require cross-functional collaboration or organizational change.
• Coach and mentor designers, helping them grow their skills and impact.
• Experiment and innovate, using research, data, and direct client insights to improve features and drive growth.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and marketing to create seamless, compelling experiences.
• Scale and resource your team effectively, making sure they have what they need to succeed.

Skills we’re looking for:

• 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.

Why join us?

• High-impact role where you’ll shape a critical part of the business and help define how we grow.
• Collaborative, cross-functional environment where design is valued as a key driver of success.
• Opportunities for career growth in a rapidly evolving company.
• A culture that values craft, innovation, and execution.

Why Wealthsimple?

• 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.

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.