Job Description
Build something people love
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 and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.
We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.
About the role
We’re not just looking for someone to fill executive roles — we’re looking for someone who helps define the future leadership of the company. Someone who is always mapping the market, cultivating relationships long before there’s a requisition, and bringing bold, unexpected, high-caliber leaders into the conversation.
You know how to operate in rooms where stakes are high and talent density matters. You’re equal parts researcher, relationship builder, and strategic advisor. You don’t wait for the perfect candidate to appear — you find them, engage them thoughtfully, and build conviction on both sides.
As an Executive Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll partner directly with senior leadership to shape Director, VP, and C-level hiring. You bring a sharp market perspective, strong judgment, and the credibility to influence how we think about leadership talent. You balance discretion with momentum and operate with the long game in mind.
Most importantly, you understand our values and what it means to be a Wealthsimpler.
This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, operates with polish and persistence, and is energized by the challenge of landing transformative talent. If you’re someone who sees patterns in the market, builds trust at the highest levels, and raises the bar every time, you’ll fit right in.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Own executive and senior leadership searches end-to-end, from market mapping through close, with a focus on quality, alignment, and long-term impact.
- Own offer strategy and executive-level closing with nuance, discretion, and strong negotiation skills.
Proactive Talent Pipelining & Relationship Building:
- Build “always-on” executive talent pipelines; engage moonshot and passive leaders before we need them.
- Craft thoughtful outreach and engagement strategies that resonate with executives, not just job seekers.
- Act as a steward of leadership talent for Wealthsimple, balancing immediate hiring needs with long-term relationship building.
- Build strong relationships to understand future product builds to help facilitate hiring ahead of the need.
Strategic Partnership & Advisory:
- Partner directly with senior leaders to shape role scopes, success profiles, and long-term talent strategy, not just job descriptions.
- Operate as a trusted advisor in executive hiring conversations, influencing hiring decisions with data, pattern recognition, and judgment.
- Lead complex stakeholder alignment, navigating ambiguity, differing opinions, and evolving business needs.
Market Intelligence & Talent Insights:
- Bring deep market intelligence into every search: competitor mapping, talent benchmarking, and insights that challenge assumptions.
- Track executive search health, pipeline strength, and market signals; use insights to inform future workforce planning.
Executive Candidate Experience & Employer Brand:
- Run highly tailored, high-touch candidate experiences that reflect the seniority of the talent we’re pursuing and Wealthsimple’s Values.
- Represent Wealthsimple’s EVP and mission with credibility and sophistication among senior talent communities.
Process Excellence & Evolution:
- Continuously evolve our executive hiring approach, tools, assessment methods, interview rigor, and candidate experience.
What you’ll bring:
- 5+ years of executive recruitment, senior talent acquisition, or research experience — ideally in a tech or executive search environment. 8+ years of overall end-to-end full cycle recruitment experience.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and engaging passive and A-level executive candidates.
- Proven ability to conduct market benchmarking, build competitive landscapes, and advise stakeholders with data-informed insights.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders with professionalism and credibility.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple high-priority searches simultaneously, and maintain confidentiality.
- Experience mentoring recruiters and contributing to TA strategy or process improvements.
- A genuine connection to Wealthsimple’s values and the ability to recognize and assess values alignment in senior leadership candidates.
Compensation & Equity
🤑 Base salary range: For this role, candidates located in Canada can expect a base salary range of CAD $116,000 - $145,000. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.
🚀 Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation. We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.
Why Wealthsimple?
🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
🌴 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
✈️ 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
👥 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
🌎 We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America - and one of the best things about working here is the people. You’ll be collaborating with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work.
Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions.
Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple
We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We’re looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.
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.
At Wealthsimple, we want interviews to feel like genuine conversations. To support this, we use AI transcription during recruiter interviews. This allows recruiters to be fully engaged, ask thoughtful follow-up questions, and ensure your experiences are captured accurately. You’ll always have the choice to opt in or out before we begin.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
