Lead, Motion & Product Marketing Design

Job description

BUILD SOMETHING PEOPLE LOVE Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/culture and learn more about how we work https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/careers. In this role, you will have the opportunity to: - Partner with product designers and the creative team to bring our product to life at our bi-annual Wealthsimple Presents live events, building and refining prototypes that bring product moments to life on stage, and translating product UI into more stylized storytelling assets where the moment calls for it - Own design for our Product Marketing surfaces including: What's New (in-app), The Report, and Social Wrapped (spotlighting top shipped products/features) - Create launch and feature visuals for major releases and manage our app store presence. - Produce animations, static assets, and video (including talking-head-over-product style content) that explain features and educate clients - Serve as the brand and marketing team’s go-to resource for everything product design related. - Build and maintain a library of UI assets and product demos that marketing and influencer partners can pull from - Partner closely with the team who owns the marketing website to product UI elements for product detail pages, making sure the product we’re selling is elevated and showcased at its best We’re looking for someone who: - Has 6+ years of experience in a design role that spans product and marketing - Portfolio that includes examples of motion design, marketing design, brand design, or product design with strong production chops - Is strong at productionizing and can take existing product UI, brand direction, or campaign concepts and turning them into polished, launch-ready assets quickly, rather than originating core product or brand design from scratch - Build and maintain AI-powered workflows to create scalable, repeatable asset production processes. - Has hands-on motion and video skills as a core, daily-use part of their craft. Comfortable in After Effects and Premiere (or equivalent), producing everything from lightweight UI animations to more produced explainer/talking-head content - Is fluent in product design tools (Figma) - Can move fluidly between product, marketing, and creative, understanding the priorities, constraints, and voice of each without needing much translation - Has a track record of shipping high-quality, on-brand work fast and independently, managing multiple concurrent requests from different stakeholders (product marketing, growth, brand, dotcom) - Has sharp taste and an eye for polish, but treats that taste as being in service of clarity and reusability, not personal authorship - Is a clear, proactive communicator who is comfortable managing intake from multiple teams and setting expectations on scope and timelines Nice to have: - Experience building or maintaining a shared asset/component library for cross-team reuse - Experience working with financial services or other regulated-industry marketing content - Familiarity with social-first video formats and platforms If you're excited about this role, along with your resume, send us a portfolio or reel that shows: - Examples of product UI you've translated into marketing/education content - At least one motion or video piece you led end-to-end - How you've worked across product, marketing, and creative stakeholders to ship something quickly WHY WEALTHSIMPLE? 🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance 📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year ✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year 👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS 🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work. ICYMI Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building. Inclusion Statement: We're building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Accessibility Statement: We're committed to an accessible hiring experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please let us know — we'll work with you to make sure you have what you need. We also welcome any feedback on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs. AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but don't replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have questions about how your data is used, reach out to us.