Engineering Leadership - Growth and Marketing
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Your career is an investment that grows over time!
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 3 million users who trust us with more than $40 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 Role
This is a leadership role where you’ll be working in R&D and partnering with the Marketing team. You’ll build the technical solutions for Growth, including improving our technical infrastructure, developing and maintaining the platforms and systems our R&D and Marketing teams use to communicate with clients, and providing expertise in the latest technologies and tools that can unlock our marketing efforts, like CMS systems, analytics platforms, and automation tools.
Role Responsibilities
Collaboration with Stakeholders: Partner with Product, Data, Design, and Marketing leaders to implement growth-focused technical solutions. Collaborate with Growth Marketing stakeholders to create in-product growth and rewards solutions.
Strategic Leadership: Develop and communicate the engineering vision and strategy aligned with our company mission and goals.
Team Management: Oversee engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management to ensure a high-performing workforce.
Project Oversight: oversee, or help your leaders oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring they meet quality standards and deadlines.
Technical Guidance: Provide technical direction and oversight, defining and maintaining tools that support Marketing teams effectively. Lead by example, providing direction and fostering high-quality, efficient work from your team.
Process Improvements: Implement processes and methodologies to improve development practices, enhance collaboration, and increase project success rates.
Innovation and R&D: Foster a culture of innovation within the engineering team, encouraging experimentation and helping foster a Proof of Concept culture.
Performance Monitoring: Establish metrics and KPIs to monitor the performance of engineering teams and project outcomes, making data-driven decisions.
Vision for Culture and Inclusion: Promote a positive team culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring an engaging environment for all employees.
Skills You Bring
A background in Growth, Engineering for Marketing, or similar
Experience building and leading multiple engineering teams of 6+ engineers
Experience building client-facing experiences for web and mobile
Experience working in a fast-moving, high-growth company and/or experience working in consumer fintech
Strong engineering and communication skills
Experience managing and growing engineering leaders
Experience working in a cross-functional, collaborative environment
Nice to have experience with:
Customer Engagement and Automation Tools, like Braze
Analytics and Attribution Tools, like Appsflyer and Mixpanel
Email Marketing Platforms and templating tools, like SendGrid and Taxi
Content Management Systems, like Contentful
Leading teams working with React or React Native
Why Wealthsimple?
🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
🌴 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!
Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
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.
About the job
Engineering Leadership - Growth and Marketing
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Management jobs
Your career is an investment that grows over time!
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 3 million users who trust us with more than $40 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 Role
This is a leadership role where you’ll be working in R&D and partnering with the Marketing team. You’ll build the technical solutions for Growth, including improving our technical infrastructure, developing and maintaining the platforms and systems our R&D and Marketing teams use to communicate with clients, and providing expertise in the latest technologies and tools that can unlock our marketing efforts, like CMS systems, analytics platforms, and automation tools.
Role Responsibilities
Collaboration with Stakeholders: Partner with Product, Data, Design, and Marketing leaders to implement growth-focused technical solutions. Collaborate with Growth Marketing stakeholders to create in-product growth and rewards solutions.
Strategic Leadership: Develop and communicate the engineering vision and strategy aligned with our company mission and goals.
Team Management: Oversee engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management to ensure a high-performing workforce.
Project Oversight: oversee, or help your leaders oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring they meet quality standards and deadlines.
Technical Guidance: Provide technical direction and oversight, defining and maintaining tools that support Marketing teams effectively. Lead by example, providing direction and fostering high-quality, efficient work from your team.
Process Improvements: Implement processes and methodologies to improve development practices, enhance collaboration, and increase project success rates.
Innovation and R&D: Foster a culture of innovation within the engineering team, encouraging experimentation and helping foster a Proof of Concept culture.
Performance Monitoring: Establish metrics and KPIs to monitor the performance of engineering teams and project outcomes, making data-driven decisions.
Vision for Culture and Inclusion: Promote a positive team culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring an engaging environment for all employees.
Skills You Bring
A background in Growth, Engineering for Marketing, or similar
Experience building and leading multiple engineering teams of 6+ engineers
Experience building client-facing experiences for web and mobile
Experience working in a fast-moving, high-growth company and/or experience working in consumer fintech
Strong engineering and communication skills
Experience managing and growing engineering leaders
Experience working in a cross-functional, collaborative environment
Nice to have experience with:
Customer Engagement and Automation Tools, like Braze
Analytics and Attribution Tools, like Appsflyer and Mixpanel
Email Marketing Platforms and templating tools, like SendGrid and Taxi
Content Management Systems, like Contentful
Leading teams working with React or React Native
Why Wealthsimple?
🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
🌴 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!
Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
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.