Senior Data Scientist, Banking Data

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary accountable person for the Money Movement and Payments sectors.

• Take charge of the strategic direction regarding feature pricing.

• Create and implement A/B tests to optimize pricing, assess launch impacts, and guide product roadmap strategies.

• Develop client-facing machine learning and artificial intelligence products, such as spending insights.

• Formulate and execute measurement strategies for product launches, which include defining metrics, conducting geo-experiments, and performing incrementality analyses.

• Construct and develop data pipelines and architecture for modeled datasets.

• Utilize causal inference and advanced statistical techniques to analyze product issues and deliver actionable insights based on customer behavior.

• Employ AI to create agentic workflows and efficiently manage operational tasks.

• Spearhead experimentation best practices throughout Wealthsimple.

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, and other cross-functional partners.

• Shape the banking experience for millions of Canadians.

⛳️ Requirements

• Possess a product-oriented mindset and have experience working on customer-facing products within a culture that emphasizes A/B testing, strong experimental design, product analytics, and data storytelling.

• Experienced in applying advanced statistical methods, causal inference, and applied mathematics.

• Proven experience working directly with cross-functional partners, particularly at the director level.

• Familiarity with measurement, attribution, and incrementality.

• Proven track record of influencing high-stakes product decisions such as pricing and roadmap priorities using data.

• Ability to rapidly adapt to shifting priorities and navigate complexity in a dynamic growth environment.

• Values simplicity and practicality.

• Strong technical proficiency in Python and SQL.

• Experience in developing production-quality data pipelines.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Fintech experience is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

• Must have permanent residency in Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and life insurance.

• Long-term group savings plan with employer matching, offered through Wealthsimple for Business.

• 20 vacation days.

• 4 wellness days.

• Unlimited sick and mental health days each year.*

• Opportunity to work outside Canada for up to 90 days each year.*

• Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS.

• Equity compensation for permanent employees.

• Remote-first work from anywhere in Canada.

• Option to decline AI Notetaker interview recording without affecting candidacy.