Product Design Lead, Design Systems

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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 4 million users who trust us with more than $80 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 team:
At Wealthsimple, design is a competitive advantage and essential to achieving our mission of helping Canadians reach financial freedom. We are also client-obsessed - our empathy for our clients sets the bar really high for the products and experiences we create.
The Design System team is responsible for Wealthsimple's unified design language and component library that powers consistent, scalable experiences across our mobile and web platforms. We establish the visual foundations, interaction patterns, and design standards that enable our product teams to build cohesive experiences efficiently while maintaining the highest quality bar. Our team serves as the bridge between design vision and execution, empowering R&D teams to move faster without sacrificing craft or consistency by providing the tools, components, documentation, and guidance they need.

In This Role You’Ll Have The Opportunity To:

• Be a player-coach, managing 1 Designer and leading the vision and execution of our design system for the mobile app and web platform. 
• Alongside the Design Systems Engineering Manager, own and set a strategic vision and roadmap for the Design System team, working closely with R&D teams to inform and improve upon the system.
• Partner with designers across R&D teams to define and continuously evolve the visual language of our app, leading the hands-on design and implementation of typography, color, iconography and componentry.
• Develop and improve the tools, resources and documentation to support the system while establishing a contribution model that streamlines how multiple product teams build and systematize components.
• Deeply understand our teams' experiences and challenges in order to further simplify, improve and adapt the design system to their needs.
• Provide regular, ongoing support and guidance to teams using and contributing to the design system, serving as an evangelist for the design system within the design org and creating clarity through strong communication and shared context.
• Bias towards action, identifying gaps, holes or areas of improvement and rallying the team to fix them.

What You’Ll Bring:

• Exceptional craft in interaction and visual design, with a portfolio demonstrating sophisticated component design, design tokens, and systematic approaches to consumer-facing products.
• Experience leading design systems at scale
• Strong strategic and systems thinking–you can shape vision for scalable design foundations, prioritize ruthlessly across platform needs, and partner with engineering and product teams to make it happen.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity in the evolving design systems space, and knows how to build alignment and adoption across multiple product teams and disciplines.
• Passionate about creating design foundations that make investing more accessible, transparent, and rewarding for everyone.

Why Join Us?

• A high-impact leadership role shaping a core pillar of Wealthsimple’s business and growth.
• The opportunity to build products that help Canadians achieve financial freedom.
• A collaborative, cross-functional environment where design is seen as a key driver of success.
• A culture that values simplicity, craft, and thoughtful execution.

Why Wealthsimple?🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days📚 Up to $1,500 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 1,000 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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Technology & Innovation at WealthsimpleWe 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 StatementAt 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 StatementWealthsimple 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.