Wealthsimple is hiring a
Education Writer

Summary

Wealthsimple is looking for an experienced finance writer to create interesting and educational content. The role includes revamping existing articles, writing market updates, and working with various teams across the company. The candidate should have at least 5 years of writing experience with at least one year in financial content.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a writer (with at least one year of experience with financial content)
• Excellent writing abilities and an understanding of the world of finance
• The ability to explain things to people who don’t have a deep understanding of the world of finance
• Experience getting the information you need from subject-matter experts
• Ability to turn mediocre content into something so much better than what it needs to be
• Creativity — you'll help push us into new territory
• An obsession with publishing the planet’s most interesting, useful, entertaining, and absolutely accurate money content

Responsibilities

• Be the front line as we ramp up our educational content, helping to improve existing franchises and establish new ones
• Revamp the educational articles in our Learn library so that they are clear, comprehensive, and entertaining
• Write market updates for our millions of clients, from the perspective of our executives and most trusted experts, on investing, trading, crypto, and more
• Own stories from concept to publication
• Make flowcharts! We do a looooot of fun flowcharts (and other kinds of graphs and visual storytelling)
• Coordinate with teams across the company, including Product, Investment Research, Portfolio Management, and Marketing, to make sure the content we’re creating meets the needs of our business
• Work with the social team to translate educational topics into social-first content
• Work with the UX team to make in-app content from education pieces

Benefits

• 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 $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