Intern, Communications & Public Affairs (Winter 2025)

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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 $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.

Internships @ Wealthsimple

At Wealthsimple, we offer 4 to 8-month internships that are open to co-op and non-co-op students, and recent grads. During your remote-first internship, you will be able to contribute to projects that are changing the landscape of financial services for Canadians. You will be on a team that supports your growth and provides mentorship while also connecting to the broader Wealthsimple community! 

About the role as Intern, Communications and Public Affairs Intern

The role will support all Communications functions - Internal, External and Government Relations - as we celebrate Wealthsimple’s 10-year anniversary and pursue our ambitious goals for continued growth. The successful candidate will report to the Senior Manager, Public Affairs and work with the entire Communications team and colleagues across the company.

We are currently looking for candidates for an 8-month term (January to end of August 2025).

This is a hybrid role requiring attendance at Wealthsimple’s downtown Toronto office (minimum 2 days/week).

• Contribute to the impact of a critical function at a fast-growing Canadian company.
• Support internal and external communications by writing and creating content for various audiences.
• Contribute to campaigns to further raise the company’s profile in media markets across Canada.
• Conduct competitor analysis, research and media monitoring on the Canadian and international fintech landscape, looking for trends that support our communications and policy objectives.
• Support government relations and advocacy campaigns to improve financial services infrastructure in Canada and provide more choice to Canadians working toward financial freedom.
• Monitor and assess emerging federal and provincial legislative and regulatory activities to evaluate potential impacts on Wealthsimple’s business.
• Gain exposure to our Product, Operations, Compliance and Marketing teams to identify communications and policy opportunities and issues and support our ambitious product roadmap and mission.

• Recently completed (within 6 months) or is currently enrolled in a diploma/degree program in Communications, Public Policy or similar. 
• Is a quick learner. The fintech landscape in Canada is complex, constantly changing, and encompasses banking, capital markets, payments, tax, crypto and more. It’s great if you have expertise in some of these issues, but what’s most important is that you can quickly gain it.
• Is a great writer. You have the ability to take complex topics and issues and communicate them in the Wealthsimple way: clear, concise, jargon-free and human. 
• Is motivated and accountable. You are comfortable taking initiative and constantly searching for ways to make a positive and meaningful contribution to advancing our business priorities.

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive salary with retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

🌴 Generous vacation days and unlimited sick and mental health days

🎉 Intern programming including educational workshops, hackathons, and mentorship

🌎 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

What past interns have said about their experience at Wealthsimple:

"I absolutely loved the term here and had a great chance to learn new things and meet many amazingly talented people! I also really appreciated the mentorship program, having someone who was an alumni from my school+program was a great chance to learn more and help plan my career and academic journey!"

"The other interns were really a highlight as well as all of the things that y'all planned for us. I also would say my own team really made me feel at home and welcomed. I love the codebase and engineering tools a lot and will miss it!"

"A lot of autonomy and trust from teammates; In-person office experience allowed for a lot of deeper friendships; I genuinely like the Wealthsimple product which made it very exciting to work on it"

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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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.