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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 and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.
We’re looking for someonewho thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.
About the role
As the Contracts Administrator, you will be the operational backbone of our legal and procurement processes. You will support the Legal team by managing the intake, organization, and execution of vendor and supplier agreements. Your goal is to ensure the contracting engine runs smoothly, allowing our product and growth teams to move fast while maintaining compliance.
What you will do:
- Contract Review & Drafting: Draft, review, and redline standard agreements (such as NDAs, Order Forms, and standard SOWs) using established templates and playbooks.
- Workflow Management: Act as the first point of contact for internal business partners initiating new contract requests; ensure all required information is gathered before legal review.
- Signature & Execution: Manage the signature process (e.g., DocuSign), ensuring all internal approvals and financial authorizations are secured prior to execution.
- Database Administration: Own the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system. You will upload signed contracts, enter key metadata (renewals, termination dates, payment terms), and ensure data integrity.
- Process Improvement: Assist the Contracts Manager and Legal team in maintaining the library of templates, self-help guides, and legal FAQs to improve efficiency.
- Vendor Onboarding: Coordinate with Finance and Security teams to ensure vendors complete necessary due diligence questionnaires during the contracting phase.
What you will bring:
- Experience: 2–5 years of experience in contract administration, legal operations, or a paralegal role, preferably within a tech or fast-paced corporate environment.
- Education: Post-secondary education (Bachelor’s degree or College Diploma); a Paralegal certificate is highly preferred.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency with eSignature tools, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software, and legal drafting solutions.
- Drafting Capability: Experience reviewing standard contracts and spotting deviations from standard terms; ability to interpret basic legal concepts (confidentiality, term, termination).
- Organizational Superpower: specific attention to detail with the ability to manage high volumes of paperwork and track multiple deadlines without letting things slip through the cracks.
- Communication: Ability to explain the status of a contract clearly to non-legal business partners and chase down approvals diplomatically.
Bonus Points for:
- Experience or interest in privacy law
- Experience or interest in artificial intelligence, creating prompts, and setting up playbooks
Compensation & Equity
🤑 Base salary range: For this role, candidates located in Canada can expect a base salary range of CAD $69,600 - $87,000. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.
🚀 Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation. We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.
Why Wealthsimple?
🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
🌴 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
✈️ 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
👥 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
🌎 We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America - and one of the best things about working here is the people. You’ll be collaborating with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work.
Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions.
Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
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.
At Wealthsimple, we want interviews to feel like genuine conversations. To support this, we use AI transcription during recruiter interviews. This allows recruiters to be fully engaged, ask thoughtful follow-up questions, and ensure your experiences are captured accurately. You’ll always have the choice to opt in or out before we begin.
