Lead, HR Project Manager

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 $80 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 People Operations Team

Our People Operations Team is growing to help foster an environment where all Wealthsimple employees can thrive. We champion a human-centric approach, striving to simplify complex processes and ensure a supportive, compliant, and equitable workplace for all.

About this role

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our People Operations team, specializing in facilitating streamlining operations for Wealthsimple's human resources processes and projects. You will work with teams across People Operations and the wider company to create the best workflow and process to help scale our operational capacity.

• Impact company-wide goals by directly managing end-to-end projects furthering the development of the People Operations team
• Create and own schedules / timeline for projects to ensure key milestones are met
• Facilitate day to day workflows, contribute to evolving our project workspaces, processes, and documentation practices ensuring proper intake, prioritization and allocation work across the People Operations team
• Monitor day-to-day project activities and resourcing; actively forecast and report on capacity and work with team leads to address and resolve resourcing issues
• Facilitate meetings such as kick offs, daily/weekly stand ups, iterations planning, requirement reviews and retrospectives
• Manage cross-discipline stakeholders and ensure stakeholder involvement by encouraging interaction and defining and delegating tasks
• Continually evaluate, propose, test, and ship systems for delivering on the People Operation teams objectives at scale
• Ensure cross-functional alignment and act as the primary point of contact to other teams and project stakeholders
• Support and manage our including researching external partners and tooling, negotiating contracts, building briefs, handling invoices and overall budget reconciliation
• Develop change management resources for systems and tooling changes to drive user adoption and increased efficiency through tooling 

• 5+ years of project management experience, ideally in-house at a fast-scaling company.
• Can effectively communicate prioritization, project goals, constraints, deliverables, and schedules within a cross-functional team with flawless timelines, status docs, trackers, and meeting notes
• Proven ability to structure ambiguity into clear project plans and deliverables.
• Has experience using and facilitating training/adoption to project management software such as Jira and Asana
• Is highly organized and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Has the ability to prioritize and manage work for self and others, adhering to multiple project timelines simultaneously
• Seeks out tasks that will improve our team and our output
• Is self-directed, brings ideas to the table, and takes ownership of their projects
• Is detail-oriented and thorough, often catching things that others miss
• Has a positive, optimistic attitude, even when the team is facing a challenge

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business

🌴 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.

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple

We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

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.