Senior Product Designer, Crypto
Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom, no matter who they are or how much they have. Using smart technology, Wealthsimple takes financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and makes them simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're the company behind some of Canada's leading digital financial products, and are growing faster than ever.
Our team is reimagining what it means to manage your money. Smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value great work and great ideas — not ego. We're looking for talented people who love a fast-paced environment, and want to ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas.
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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 product designer to work on the Crypto product. In this role you will be embedded on the Crypto team, partnering closely with engineering and product to shape the future of our offering and deliver a high quality product to our clients.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Own and lead Crypto design, contributing to conversations and direction of the product roadmap and strategy
- Conduct research and leverage data to inform your designs, forming a strong understanding of our Crypto client’s needs and advocating for user-driven decision making
- Raise the quality bar of our user experience through delivering well crafted user experiences and continuously looking for areas of improvement
- Become a subject matter expert in Crypto
- Collaborate closely with your product and engineering partners to deliver high quality solutions at speed
- Apply systems-thinking to design problems in order to holistically scale the product forward
Skills we are looking for:
- Experience building consumer-facing mobile apps
- Passion and knowledge of the web3 ecosystem
- Proven ability to turn complex problems into simple experiences
- Outstanding UX, visual design and product thinking skills, capable of delivering polished experiences including motion and interaction design
- 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
- A deep personal interest and passion for personal finance and how we might build simpler, more accessible services for everyone
If you’re excited to be part of Wealthsimple's mission, please apply with your resume and a portfolio that demonstrate:
- Your experience solving ambiguous problems & how you got there
- Your experience working on consumer-facing products
- The impact of your work on the broader goals of the company
- How you leverage insights to make user-driven decisions
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. Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know.