Director, Product Engagement (Lifecycle Marketing) - 15 month FT Contract
Wealthsimple
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Wealthsimple's mission is to help everyone achieve financial freedom – by making financial services simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're Canada's largest fintech, trusted by over 3 million clients with more than $100 billion in assets. We move fast, we own our work, and we care deeply about the people using our products. If that sounds like you, keep reading.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCT ENGAGEMENT (LIFECYCLE) TEAM
Our Product Engagement (PE) team's mission is to connect clients to value — ensuring every client discovers, learns, adopts, and grows with our products. We do that through smart, personalized lifecycle communications across email, push, SMS, and in-app, powered by behavioural data, rigorous experimentation, and an increasingly AI-native way of working. We embed deeply with our Product, PMM, Data Science, and Growth partners — we don't just service their requests, we shape their strategies.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a Director, Product Engagement to lead our lifecycle function during a pivotal period of growth. This is a 15-month fixed-term contract, reporting to the VP, Product Marketing.
In this role, you'll own the strategic direction and execution of product engagement work across Wealthsimple's full product ecosystem (Self-directed Investing, Wealth Management, and Banking), with a primary mandate to drive cross-sell growth and deepen product adoption among our existing client base. You'll lead a high-performing team of lifecycle marketers, set the vision for how we use data and AI to engage clients at scale, and serve as a senior voice for the Lifecycle function across the organization.
The ideal candidate has led lifecycle or CRM functions at a hyper growth, innovative, consumer-first company, brings a sharp analytical lens to everything they do, and knows how to move fast without sacrificing client experience or quality.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO:
- Own the PE cross-sell strategy end-to-end — set the targeting philosophy, shape audience frameworks (Personalization-driven segmentation, LLM powered cohorts, propensity models), and align lifecycle programs with Wealthsimple's product adoption and business goals across all core verticals
- Lead and develop a high-performing lifecycle team — set a high bar for craft and ownership, coach managers and specialists on strategic thinking and execution excellence, and build a culture where feedback, experimentation, and AI-native working are the norm
- Set the AI and technology strategy for PE — drive adoption of AI-powered personalization, evaluate and make decisions on new platform capabilities, and champion scalable, automated workflows that increase team impact without increasing headcount
- Establish PE as a str