Victoria Parikian

Manager, Talent Acquisition at Wealthsimple

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

About

Experience

  • Wealthsimple (5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Manager, Talent Acquisition
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    • Lead Recruiter
      Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr

    • Senior Recruiter
      Aug 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • HiMama (Greater Toronto Area, Canada)
    • Talent Acquisition Manager
      Feb 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      I joined HiMama as employee #27 and had an amazing opportunity to build out the talent acquisition function. As the first TA hire, I led the growth of the company to 120+ employees across all functions: sales, customer success, engineering, marketing, people operations and revenue operations.

    • Brand Ambassador and Office Coordinator
      Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Within the first few months of joining HiMama, I was tasked with growing our sales development team and this is where I got my start in recruitment! 💫 I continued my journey at HiMama taking on the first official TA role as a TA Manager. Outside of recruiting, my role also included: 🎉 Company culture initiatives & event planning 🤗 Revamping and running our new hire onboarding program 🎯 Sales enablement ✍️ Social media coordination 🗄 Office management & administration 🎙Podcast production for the Preschool Podcast - I wore a lot of hats in my role. 🎩

  • Brand Ambassador at NEWAD
    Jul 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Health Records Clerk at Women's College Hospital
    Oct 2015 - Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Work Study Student at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
    Sep 2014 - Mar 2015 · 7 mos