Director of Complex Trading
Wealthsimple
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Jul 22, 2025
In this role you’ll:
- Join the Capital Markets team at Wealthsimple Investments Inc. (Wealthsimple's in-house broker/dealer)
- Lead and supervise a team of experienced traders
- Work closely with engineering teams to build or modify trading strategies or backend setups of new products
- Help design the back-end of new asset types coming to market and set up the execution process for these new asset types
- Work with product teams to modify and enhance product specifications to meet client demand
- Identify operational improvements to improve productivity and efficiency for trading processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Wealthsimple
- Be responsible for overseeing risk and meeting compliance requirements across all of our trading processes
We're looking for people who:
- Want to make a difference. We are a small team effectively reshaping how people look at the industry. We need people who 'get it' and want to play an integral part in helping us accomplish this mission
- Extensive experience in the investment and trading industry
- Have extreme precision and attention to detail
- Are an excellent communicator and know how to explain complex concepts and work with a variety of people
- Are comfortable digging through data to find and analyze desired information
- Have great analytical and prioritization skills. You know how to balance what needs to be done with what’s possible to do. You understand the scope of an issue and its priority
- Embrace technology and the role it plays in financial services. Specifically, you have the flexibility to navigate multiple applications simultaneously to deliver unprecedented solutions
Requirements
- CSC, CPH, DFOL (or DFC) mandatory
- Investment Dealer Supervisors Course (IDSC) and/or Canadian Commodities Supervision Exam an asset
- 10+ years of trading experience
- Experience trading equities, ETFs, futures and options
- Knowledgeable in index rebalancing
- Experience leading a team
- Experience building access to new asset types from scratch
- Experience with automated trading solutions and inventory management strategies
- Experience with building out back office operational capabilities
- Experience in coding trading strategies or working with engineer teams to do so
- Analytical experience with Excel and SQL
- Solution focused
- Passionate about technology and finding new AI solutions