Wealthsimple
Finance • Fintech • Investing
Wealthsimple is a financial technology company based in Canada that offers a range of investment and financial services. They provide managed investing options with custom portfolios tailored to individual goals, and offer self-directed investing to take control of trading stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies commission-free. Wealthsimple also provides high-interest cash accounts, various retirement savings accounts, and a comprehensive set of tools for personal finance management. With over 3 million users, they emphasize low fees, transparency, and personalized financial advice.
Senior News Writer
November 18
Wealthsimple
Finance • Fintech • Investing
Wealthsimple is a financial technology company based in Canada that offers a range of investment and financial services. They provide managed investing options with custom portfolios tailored to individual goals, and offer self-directed investing to take control of trading stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies commission-free. Wealthsimple also provides high-interest cash accounts, various retirement savings accounts, and a comprehensive set of tools for personal finance management. With over 3 million users, they emphasize low fees, transparency, and personalized financial advice.
📋 Description
• Own the voice of the newsletter and make it your own • Attract and build an audience for TLDR • Publish the planet’s most interesting, useful, entertaining, and accurate money content • Make the newsletter better than it already is and help expand the TLDR brand • Deliver incisive analysis of front-page news • Unpack fintwit’s latest obsession, explain charts, and interview experts.
🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years of experience in an editorial role at a media outlet, or in a writing position at a financial institution • Act as lead writer for the TLDR newsletter and Wealthsimple Magazine • Help run the newsletter from concept to publication. This will include reporting and writing stories and collecting ideas and addressing feedback from editors, researchers, fact checkers, and other stakeholders • Generate enterprise story ideas and create new editorial franchises • Excels at research and reporting. The role will require closely following the news, consulting sources, and synthesizing the day’s headlines • Has sharp editorial instincts and news judgment • Keeps up with pop culture and politics, and (of course) markets and technology • Can hustle. You’re a self-motivated person who proactively finds stories that other outlets miss • Is creative. We don’t just want to do what we’ve already done; you’ll help push the newsletter into fresh new territory
🏖️ Benefits
• 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
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