Manager, Talent Acquisition
Wealthsimple
People & HR
Canada
Posted on Sep 6, 2025
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 Talent Acquisition Team:
Lead. Forecast. Innovate. Build the future of hiring. At Wealthsimple, we are building for our future. We're growing fast, and we need a Manager, Talent Acquisition to lead a team of 4–8 recruiters across Marketing, Commercial, Finance, People Ops, Regulatory, and Operations. You'll be the go-to person for high-volume hiring, complex roles, and everything in between—making sure we hit our targets, forecast like a pro, and keep candidates and hiring managers delighted.
**Please note that this role will close on September 9th at 5:00pm EST**
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Foster a high-performing team culture: Build a team that values accountability, experimentation, bias to action, and AI fluency. Celebrate curiosity, reward problem-solving, and encourage bold thinking.
- Be the trusted partner for stakeholders: Anticipate questions, prep insights, and pivot gracefully when priorities shift. Partner with Director+ business leaders and HRBPs to shape talent strategies, keeping them informed of updates, risks, and mitigation strategies before issues escalate.
- Navigate change with clarity: Thrive in an ever-evolving environment, diffusing escalations before they become problems. Calm under pressure, proactive in communication.
- Master capacity planning and forecasting: Use historical and current TA data (TtH, TtF, funnel data, OA rates) to predict hiring timelines, anticipate pipeline health, recruiter workload, and time-to-hire. Ensure your team can handle projected hiring volume and adjust for spikes.
- Partner with FP&A: Align headcount planning with business strategy and budgets so we hit growth targets without surprises.
- Monitor, optimize, and solve proactively: Track pipeline health, interview velocity, conversion rates, and hiring bar. Spot risks, bottlenecks, and shortfalls early—design solutions and adjust tactics before they impact outcomes.
- Lead by example: Occasionally lean in to run searches yourself, setting the standard for recruiting excellence and demonstrating best practices to your team.
- Balance volume with complexity: Manage high-volume roles while handling intricate, one-off positions that require creative sourcing and relationship-building.
- Innovate and experiment boldly: Build scalable, repeatable workflows that improve efficiency, candidate experience, and hiring outcomes. Constantly explore unconventional sourcing channels, test new tools, rethink old workflows, and push the boundaries of how recruiting gets done.
- Guide strategic talent decisions: Use data, experience, and insights to influence senior leaders in making informed, strategic talent decisions that align with business goals.
- Build dashboards and scalable systems: Create recruiting workflows, tools, and dashboards that give recruiters and leaders clear visibility into pipeline health, velocity, and conversion rates. Translate goals into systems that increase speed, accuracy, and overall outcomes.
- Drive data-first decision making: Treat metrics as the barometer of success. Always be thinking about the data—whether it's trade-offs, priorities, or team performance discussions. Use data to guide decisions, evaluate options, and anchor conversations with your team and business stakeholders.
- Integrate AI everywhere: Use AI to enhance sourcing, forecasting, candidate engagement, and process optimization—don't just adopt it, embed it. Don’t just dabble, be ahead of it.
- Think radically: Reimagine recruitment processes, challenge assumptions, and explore uncharted opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and candidate experience.
What you’ll bring:
- A Maker/Owner mentality: You take full ownership of your team, processes, and results—solving problems end-to-end and continuously improving everything you touch.
- Naive Ambition: You aim big, think boldly, and aren't afraid to challenge the status quo to build something extraordinary.
- Experience: 7+ years in recruitment with 2–3+ years managing a team. Leading high-volume environments is a major bonus.
- A data-driven mindset: You excel at using dashboards, analytics, and forecasting to drive decisions.
- Capacity planning expertise: You can anticipate pipeline challenges and implement solutions before they become problems.
- Meticulous attention to detail: You maintain exceptionally high standards in everything you do. From candidate communications to data analysis to process documentation, your detail-oriented approach ensures nothing falls through the cracks and quality remains consistently high.
- Exceptional stakeholder management: You build trust quickly, communicate clearly, and influence confidently.
- Exceptional communication skills: You translate complex ideas into clear, actionable insights for any audience—from individual contributors to C-suite executives. Your communication style builds trust, drives alignment, and ensures everyone is on the same page.
- Innovative thinking: You thrive on creating scalable processes and delivering exceptional candidate experiences.
- AI-fluency: You're ready to integrate cutting-edge tools and strategies throughout the recruitment process.
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!
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.