Art Director, Brand Creative

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 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 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

At Wealthsimple, we’re interested in humans and money — and the complicated ways humans feel about money. Our goal in the creative department is to be a part of that conversation in meaningful ways that are completely innovative and new. We have a deep aversion to making things that already exist and to ads that feel like ads.

We are looking for an experienced Art Director to help us create innovative, human and ridiculously entertaining work. In this role you will primarily work as a team with a copywriter partner, but you’ll also collaborate with designers, writers, marketers and engineers across the org. You will be responsible for all aspects of creative development and production on integrated brand campaigns and projects large and small, and you will be leading creative voice in some of our biggest brand moments. 

• Be a highly conceptual thinker with strong design and storytelling skills.
• Develop big ideas and bring them to life through every stage of production.
• Own large and small brand projects and campaigns from kickoff to completion, often balancing multiple projects at once.
• Be a maker-owner, but also a director-delegator, and find the right balance between those two roles for each project. 
• Provide art direction on visual design for integrated brand campaigns and projects of various scales and types – from film, social, digital, to interactive experiences.
• Be a creative and strategic thinker who can see how creativity can solve business problems
• Present work in a clear, passionate and dynamic way, championing the creative and vision to internal stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with outside production partners when necessary. 

• 5+ years of experience as an Art Director (some agency experience preferred, but not necessary). 
• Extensive experience with integrated campaigns, from strategic development
through creative development and delivery
• Strong design skills
• Production experience across all platforms - film, digital, social, and printed
• Well-versed in Adobe Creative Suite and able to be a hands-on creative delivering
comps, layouts, and assets across all media types as well as give direction to studio
designers where applicable
• A truly collaborative creative approach.
• Ability to travel when necessary.

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.