Director - Crypto Operations

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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 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.

Mission

Join our Operations leadership team and partner with leaders across Product Operations Engineering Trading Data Science Risk Compliance and Client Success to continue building and enhancing our Wealthsimple Crypto Product.

Responsibilities & Outcomes

• Work closely with our Product and engineering teams to help define our Crypto strategy and roadmap. Lead and execute the strategic initiatives to create new business and revenue streams to scale the Crypto product.  Partner with teams across the business as part of the Crypto thought leadership team.

• Define operational requirements (systems process controls tooling reports/monitoring 3rd party solutions etc) across the full crypto product lifecycle to deliver our roadmap

• Operationalize new product features while managing financial regulatory and reputational risk. Execute key initiatives in close partnership with Product Engineering Data Science Compliance and Risk

• Oversee a high performing team to reliably and consistently execute day-to-day processes supporting the Wealthsimple Crypto product within the CIRO framework.

• Develop and manage relationships with key partners and vendors (e.g. data vendors custodians exchanges)

• Help advance Wealthsimple’s position in the Crypto space by participating in industry events and building a strong network within the Crypto community

• Enhance operational risk controls to keep our clients’ assets safe manage risk to Wealthsimple and meet strategic and regulatory standards

• Support the publishing review and continuous improvement of our policies and procedures in collaboration with Risk & Compliance. Ensure compliance with all CIRO and other regulatory requirements; support/advise on our regulatory strategy

• Develop and maintain an educational environment where the knowledge and performance of our team is continually advancing

Capabilities

• Have 5+ years leadership experience in a broker-dealer in Accounting/Finance and/or Operations capacities. Can apply securities regulatory and operational knowledge to the newly regulated Crypto domain.

• A proven track record of leading strategy and operations of a regulated business.

• Passionate about technology and the Crypto landscape. You’re excited about innovation in the fintech space.

• You have a want to build new things. You have exceptional financial acumen and problem solving skills with a passion for process improvement.

• Are organized with strong attention to detail and are comfortable working on multiple priorities with the ability to meet tight deadlines.

• Have excellent people skills and a positive attitude. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment.

• Are naturally curious: if something seems off you want to figure out what’s going on.

• Having experience or familiarity with programming is a plus (especially SQL).

• Having or are actively pursuing a CFA or CPA/CGA designation is a plus.

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 $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

We’re a remote-first team with over 1000 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.