Wealthsimple is hiring a
Art Director

Summary

The job is for a Senior Creative role in the Brand Creative team at Wealthsimple focusing on Growth/Performance/Acquisition campaigns. The candidate will have 8+ years of design experience with 4+ years specializing in Growth work and will be based in US or Canada, working remotely.

Requirements

• Has 8+ years of experience in design
• Desired 4+ years specializing in Growth / Performance / Acquisition campaign work or other relevant work
• Understands how marketing objectives, strategic positioning, audience insights, and marketing learning agenda can influence creative ideation
• Has a portfolio of work that demonstrates an ability to conceive for a variety of audiences, brand challenges, styles, and media
• Has a strong visual point-of-view and is confident in their ability to bring concepts to life
• Has experience assigning and art directing multiple types of vendors across different mediums (illustration, motion, animation, and 3D)
• Has experience in both live-action / influencer marketing production along with more design-driven modular creation
• Has experience overseeing and collaborating with internal writers and designers, and external production companies in highly iterative workstreams
• Is intimately familiar with paid social platforms and the digital media landscape

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Growth/Paid Marketing team to create new collaborative processes that will translate data-driven learnings and hypotheses into creative strategies and campaign ideas
• Launch concurrent campaigns across multiple digital/social platforms
• Work with partners across brand & product campaigns to guarantee an integrated on-brand experience
• Become an expert on the intersection of product messaging and audience/market fit
• Produce, enhance, and voice creative presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Assess and partner with external agencies to supplement, scale, produce, and test new ideas across various channels
• Innovate to drive conversion, through quick and iterative approaches

Preferred Qualifications

• Is a self-starter and learner who is excited to impact business success through creativity
• Is passionate about the role money plays in people's lives; the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 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 $1500 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