Wealthsimple

Senior Lead, Partnerships (Perks & Rewards)

Wealthsimple • $110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years of relevant experience in consulting, partnerships, or product-adjacent roles in customer-focused industries.
  • Proven expertise in perks and rewards program management.
  • Master negotiator with a history of driving commercial outcomes and hitting targets.
  • Strong analytical skills with comfort in discussing spend and redemption data.
  • Experience successfully executing complex partnerships across multiple stakeholders.
  • Track record as a 0-to-1 operator, building or scaling programs with high autonomy.
  • High urgency, ownership, and a bias for action.

Responsibilities

  • Source, negotiate, and manage credit card partnerships with major brands.
  • Grow Wealthsimple Offers and the cashback marketplace to enhance customer engagement.
  • Shape and manage Milestone Rewards by deciding on necessary changes or expansions.
  • Lead commercial negotiations from outreach to signed agreements, ensuring mutual benefit.
  • Analyze card and marketplace data to identify potential partnership opportunities.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to launch and measure programs.
  • Own metrics related to program performance, including client engagement and redemption rates.

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance.
  • Long-term group savings plan with employer matching.
  • 20 vacation days, plus 4 wellness days and unlimited sick and mental health days.
  • Opportunity to work outside Canada for up to 90 days each year.
  • Diverse employee resource groups to foster inclusion and support.
  • Collaborative environment with a talented and driven workforce.
Full Job Description
About the role

This role owns the partnerships behind how we reward Wealthsimple clients for their everyday spend and deepen their relationship with us. You'll own our perks and rewards ecosystem end to end: credit card partnerships, Milestone Rewards, Wealthsimple Offers, and the credit card cashback marketplace. The job is to turn these programs into a reason clients bring more of their financial lives to us, measured in adoption, consolidation, and engagement. You'll source, negotiate, and launch partnerships with some of the biggest brands in the country, and you'll build a lot of it from scratch. This is a builder's seat for someone who's done perks and rewards before and wants to own the function end to end.

In this role you'll have the opportunity to:
  • Own credit card partnerships end to end: source, negotiate, and land partner-funded, card-native perks with national, household-name brands.
  • Grow Wealthsimple Offers and the credit card cashback marketplace: build the roster across our top spend categories (travel, telecom, insurance, entertainment, grocery, transportation) and drive client adoption and redemption.
  • Own Milestone Rewards: shape the mechanics and partner mix, and make the calls on when to revamp, expand, or retire.
  • Lead commercial negotiations from first outreach to signed terms, landing economics that work for both our clients and the business.
  • Turn card and marketplace data into a pipeline: find where the spend, the frequency, and the client value actually are, then go win those partners.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Growth, PMM, Brand, Product, and data to launch, measure, and scale each program.
  • Own the targets: offers live, unique clients engaging, redemption rates, and perks live per quarter, all tied to adoption, consolidation, and engagement.
Skills you'll bring:
  • 7-10 years of relevant experience in consulting, partnerships, and/or product-adjacent roles in banking or customer-focused industries.
  • Perks and rewards experience. You've built or run a perks, rewards, or loyalty program before. This is the core of the role and we're looking for someone who's lived it, not read about it.
  • Negotiation and commercial ownership. A master negotiator with a track record of driving commercial outcomes, hitting targets, and turning partnerships into value.
  • Strong analytical and commercial skills, with the ability to assess trade-offs, economics, and scalability, and real comfort in spend and redemption data.
  • Strategic partnership execution. Demonstrated experience developing and executing partnerships that require coordination across multiple stakeholders and functions.
  • A 0-to-1 operator. Experience launching, building, or scaling programs in a new market with a high degree of autonomy.
  • High urgency, strong ownership, and a bias for action.
Nice to haves:
  • Credit card, card-linked offer, interchange, or payments experience. If you've worked on card perks or a card-linked marketplace, we especially want to talk.
  • A loyalty pedigree: experience at a fintech, a financial institution, or a consumer brand with a serious loyalty program.
  • Hands-on data skills: SQL or a BI tool (Looker, Preset, Tableau, or similar) to interrogate spend and redemption yourself.


Why Wealthsimple?

🌸 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. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.

*Unlimited paid sick days, Wellness Days and the 90 day away program do not apply to certain roles.

About Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple is a financial services company that provides online investment management and trading services. The company's platform allows users to invest in a variety of financial products, including stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and offers a range of tools and resources to help users manage their investments. Wealthsimple also offers a high-interest savings account and a tax preparation service. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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