Staff Data Scientist, Growth

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with engineers and designers across product teams to enhance acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and overall customer experience.

• Work alongside marketing, finance, and operations to discover growth opportunities and facilitate improved business decisions.

• Advocate for experimentation and decision-making frameworks to enable rapid and confident iterations.

• Establish KPIs and success metrics.

• Utilize statistical analysis, forecasting, causal inference, and machine learning to gain insights into user behavior and business performance.

• Detect opportunities by analyzing user journeys, lifecycle behaviors, conversion funnels, and financial outcomes.

• Provide data-informed insights on impact, tradeoffs, and ROI to guide squad and company priorities.

• Develop dashboards, models, and self-service tools for enhanced visibility into growth and business performance.

• Partner with the data team to ensure a consistent and shared data layer.

• Promote a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and evidence-based decision-making throughout Shakepay.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in data science, growth analytics, experimentation, or similar roles within high-growth settings.

• Advanced skills in SQL and Python.

• Comprehensive understanding of experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis, forecasting, and KPI formulation.

• Strong intuition regarding product and business dynamics.

• Experience in cross-functional collaboration with marketing, finance, operations, or product teams.

• Capacity to work independently and lead ambiguous projects from conception to execution.

• Excellent communication and data-influencing abilities.

• Proficiency in managing and delivering multiple projects with meticulous attention to detail.

• A curious mindset, quick execution, and a proactive approach in fast-paced environments.

• Familiarity with dashboarding and data visualization tools.

• Eagerness to learn and grow in a dynamic environment.

• Fluency in English is required.

• Bonus: Experience in startup or high-growth consumer settings.

• Bonus: Familiarity with PostHog, Statsig, or Amplitude.

• Bonus: Experience with dbt, Snowflake, and contemporary data stacks.

• Bonus: Knowledge of lifecycle marketing, customer segmentation, or growth modeling.

• Bonus: Current Shakepay customer status or product familiarity.

• Bonus: Interest in Bitcoin and non-sovereign currencies.

🏝️ Benefits

• All employees receive stock options as part of their overall compensation package.

• Annual salary reviews.

• Comprehensive health and dental insurance coverage.

• Health and wellness spending accounts.

• Flexibility to work from anywhere in Canada.

• Optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.

• $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and professional development.

• 20 days of vacation annually.

• $1,000 bonus for utilizing all vacation days.

• Parental leave topped up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks.

• Quarterly offsite events for teams or company-wide gatherings.

• Equity opportunities.

• Salary increases based on performance.

• Paid time off.

• Ongoing learning, growth, and development initiatives.