Director, HR Programs
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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 role
Reporting to the Senior Director of HR Services, you will be responsible for leading and creating key company-wide talent management programs such as employee engagement, learning and development, diversity, and talent development. You will continuously coordinate with different teams to get feedback and make sure our programs hit the mark, and can adapt when things change.
In this role you will have the opportunity to:
- Be a strong voice and critical leader, driving every aspect of the HR programs function, letting the Wealthsimple vision and culture be the guide.
- Design, shape and drive key strategic talent programs that support: employee engagement, learning and development, diversity, talent development and many more creative programs, including change management processes.
- Continuously evolve our best practices based on data driven metrics so we can scale effectively, while maintaining our culture and creating an environment for people to do their best work.
- Own People Operations communications and change management strategy and execution.
- Proactively identify blockers and facilitate solutions to improve our performance, collaboration, and engagement. Support continuous improvement and introduce modern best practices to our people strategies to better engage and enable our people and teams.
- Inspire, teach and lead a talented team of HR professionals on program management best practices.
- Champion human-centered design principles to enable co-creation of innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of the business.
Skills we’re looking for:
- Has substantial relevant experience in core people operations, operations or can otherwise demonstrate expertise in human-centric program development and execution, ideally in a fast growing tech environment.
- Has demonstrated strength in cross-functional stakeholder management and ability to work with different business functions (R&D, Finance, Operations, other).
- Has demonstrated strength as an internal communications leader with experience in company-wide change management.
- Has experience developing and executing programs and change management at a high growth company.
- Has experience in the full life cycle of program management from ideation and development to execution and maintenance.
- Has experience advising leaders on people strategies, builds strong partnerships at all levels of the company and has expertise in navigating difficult stakeholder conversations.
- Direct people management experience and has broader experience building a strong team and set of people practices.
- Doesn't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions or sticking with the tried and true. You've seen it all and can advise on what does and doesn't work, but create custom solutions tailored around your understanding of our unique team.
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 $1500 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 1000 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!
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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.