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What they do

Wealthsimple is a Canadian financial company that works through an app. Its postings say it offers managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending, and saving. They state that it serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration. Financial experts and technology entrepreneurs founded it in 2014. The headquarters is in Toronto.

What they value

• Building something people love, which is the line every posting opens with.
• Serving Canada specifically, which several postings make the whole pitch.
• Unreasonable hospitality, a phrase the workplace team uses for going beyond what is expected.
• Written culture. Postings link to a Culture Manual that explains how the company works.
• Small teams with a wide remit, described in one posting as lean and high-impact.

Where they hire

Of 48 postings, 42 are remote within Canada and six are remote in the United States. Only five name an office, all of them Toronto. This is the most remote board in the catalog: 45 of the 48 postings are remote. One posting invites Canadians working abroad to come home, so relocation is part of the pitch.

Teams and roles

The board is small and spread evenly across product, money, and operations.

• Engineering: seven postings, plus four in data and engineering and two in platform engineering.
• Client experience operations: five postings, which support customers.
• Marketing: five postings.
• Advisory and planning: four postings, which give financial advice to clients.
• Brokerage: three postings, plus one in brokerage and capital markets.
• Corporate development: two postings, covering mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships.
• Product design and product management: two postings each.
• People operations and controllers: two postings each.
• Contracts: 45 postings are full time, two are internships, and one is a contract.

What they look for

Postings describe the team before the role, so you learn what the group is for first. The workplace operations posting asks you to own the physical office experience across every hub, covering facilities, food and drink, and workplace safety, and frames the standard as removing friction so others can focus. Finance postings assume capital markets knowledge: the retail equity capital partnerships posting reports to a vice president of corporate development and asks you to build a function sitting between issuers, capital markets, and retail investors, originating relationships and expanding what clients can invest in. One listing is not a job at all but an open call for senior Canadians working in San Francisco, New York, or Boston, collecting applications against future roles.