Role Description You’ll partner closely with the Design System Product Design Manager, engineers, and designers across the company to evolve the system that powers our mobile and web experiences. At Wealthsimple, design is a core part of how we build trust with our clients and help Canadians reach financial freedom. Our design system enables teams to ship high-quality, consistent experiences quickly while maintaining a strong and cohesive visual language across our platform. In this role, you’ll help shape the foundations, components, and patterns that product teams rely on every day. You’ll collaborate with teams across R&D to understand real product needs, translate them into scalable solutions, and ensure the system continues to grow alongside the company. This role sits at the intersection of craft, systems thinking, and collaboration, and is ideal for someone excited about building the tools and foundations that empower teams to build great products at scale. What you’ll do - Help define, evolve, and maintain Wealthsimple’s visual language and component library, including typography, color, iconography, and UI patterns. - Design and refine reusable components, tokens, and interaction patterns that enable teams to build consistent, high-quality experiences across web and mobile. - Improve the contribution model so teams can effectively propose, build, and scale new components from real product use cases. - Develop clear documentation, guidelines, and tooling that help teams adopt and use the design system with confidence. - Champion accessibility, usability, and design quality across the system. - Partner closely with the Brand team to ensure alignment between Wealthsimple’s brand expression and product experience. - Support and guide product teams using the system through reviews, feedback, and collaborative problem solving. - Proactively identify opportunities to improve the system and drive improvements with a strong bias toward action. - Act as an advocate for systems thinking and consistency across the design organization. Qualifications - Strong visual design and product thinking with exceptional attention to detail. - Experience designing and maintaining design systems, component libraries, or UI frameworks at scale. - Deep understanding of interaction design, layout systems, typography, and visual hierarchy. - Experience designing for both mobile and web platforms. - Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices. - Experience collaborating closely with product management and engineering partners. - Ability to balance system scalability with real product needs, making thoughtful tradeoffs when required. - Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate design decisions. Benefits - 🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance - 📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business - 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year - ✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year - 👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS - 🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America.

About the Role april is seeking a motivated Senior Product Designer to join our Build team. This role is for an individual who takes pride in their work and is excited by the idea of continuous learning. You will own decisions and ship flawless end-to-end flows and experiences across our full suite of products — from consumer-facing solutions to B2B2C experiences and internal tools for business clients. Our team’s focus is to create a best-in-class, human-centric tax experience for everyone we serve. We pride ourselves in reimagining established paradigms and designing innovative solutions to make taxes work for the people. This position is fully remote and candidates must be based in the United States. Team members residing within the New York City metropolitan area must maintain a minimum on-site presence of three days per week. Key Responsibilities Lead the entire design thinking process for significant parts of our multi-platform product suite (consumer, B2B2C, and internal business tools) Contribute to the growth of the product design function while building and communicating best practices across the organization Work directly with our Head of Product Design and Product, Engineering, and Tax Analyst leads to prioritize initiatives to ensure we are solving the right problems Ensure flawless, pixel perfect execution across all areas of the design process while keeping an eye on the bigger picture Regularly conduct research to ensure we are continuously improving the product experience by gathering qualitative and quantitative insights via user research Measure and contribute to business level objectives and key results by ensuring every piece of work you touch is adding value for both the user and the business Partner with the marketing team to ensure our solutions align with our users’ voice and the april brand Experience 6+ years of experience designing and building digital products Knowledge and passion for interaction and visual design Must have a high bar for design quality and be an advocate for clean, elegant, and usable design – you are constantly looking to raise our bar of quality Ability to think at a high level about business objectives Strong collaboration skills and ability to maintain flexibility in an evolving work environment Self-learning individual with an entrepreneurial spirit, conceptual thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills Effective communication skills and the ability to confidently communicate design thinking methodologies and design direction with senior stakeholders, including founders Must be proficient in Figma About april april is the only embedded, year-round tax platform built to power smarter financial decisions. From filing to planning to onboarding, april’s white-labeled tools bring real-time tax intelligence into the platforms people already use, helping users understand the impact of every paycheck, equity transaction, or income shift, and stay on top of tax payments throughout the year. Built to handle even the most complex tax situations, april’s AI-powered tax engine ingests data directly from partner apps to deliver accurate outcomes in record time—making tax planning and filing more connected, contextual, and accessible than ever. With API-first infrastructure and seamless data integrations, april helps partners deliver more value, deepen loyalty, and turn taxes into a strategic edge—for their clients and their business.

• Own the "feel" of the product end to end • Identify pain points • Watch real users struggle in Fullstory, identify friction points, and fix them • Prototype interaction alternatives rapidly (in Figma or code) to test different approaches • Create, refine, and iterate on UX flows and interaction patterns • Work closely with our Senior engineers who own feature architecture - they build the foundation, you perfect the interface • Run lightweight usability tests to validate improvements • Build reusable interaction patterns that the team can leverage • Watching 10 user sessions, identifying 3 common friction points • Meeting with users to get deeper on new product features feedback • Prototyping 2 different flows in Figma • Implementing design improvements with smooth transitions and helpful inline guidance • Pairing with Staff engineers to refactor a complex form into a multi-step wizard • Running a quick usability test with 5 users on the new onboarding flow

• Own and drive design initiatives for Affirm’s App and Card experience, delivering high-impact, customer-centric solutions that align with business objectives. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, marketing, and research to drive innovation and deliver seamless, intuitive experiences. • Embrace agility—iterating quickly, adapting to change, and making data-driven decisions while maintaining a strong vision for the future. • Balance near-term execution with long-term strategic thinking, ensuring scalability and coherence across the Affirm ecosystem. • Push the envelope—challenge the status quo, think outside the box, and take calculated risks to drive meaningful innovation in financial products. • Bring exceptional visual and interaction design skills to craft delightful, polished experiences that build trust and confidence. • Champion a test-and-learn mindset, leveraging experimentation, research, and analytics to continuously refine and optimize user experiences.