Data Scientist - Product Data Science

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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, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

About the team:

The Growth Data Science team is responsible for delivering high-quality measurement tools and predictive analytics to support data-driven decision making and to enable automation across all growth functions within Wealthsimple. The team consists of data scientists and analytics developers with diverse experiences and educational backgrounds such as math, operations research, economics, computer science, engineering and business. 

We achieve these goals by:

-Using decision science to understand the cause and effect of our business decisions. 

-Leveraging machine learning and algorithms to help Wealthsimple build smart financial products.

-Building a high quality and scalable state-of-the-art data warehouse that powers all decision making

What you will do:

• Partner with our Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering teams to support work across some of Wealthsimple’s highest priority efforts

• Design and execute experiments to evaluate new product features and drive business decisions

• Apply statistical techniques and build machine learning models to solve real life product problems and to inform product strategies

• Translate business requirements into data models and analyses that will help stakeholders answer key business questions and inform strategic decisions

• Build robust, efficient, and integrated data models in cloud data warehouse that will be used as the source of truth for analytics across the Growth organization

• Apply software best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytics code base; ensure data models are well testing, documented and maintained

• Continuously look for the simplest, most effective way to approach challenges; Occam’s razor is your friend

• Take ownership and ship it

• Work where you are (while our Canadian offices are located in Toronto, we are a remote-first workforce and you can join from anywhere in Canada!)

Who you are:

• Strong business acumen and product sense

• Excellent Python & SQL skills, first hand experience working with popular Python libraries such as Pandas, scikit-learn, numpy and Jupyter

• Strong understanding of statistics: both frequentist and Bayesian approaches

• Strong understanding of fundamental machine learning algorithms: e.g. regression and decision trees

• Able to articulate their stance in a manner that effectively collaborates with different stakeholders

• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and effectively manages complexity and change

• Has exceptional communication skills and is able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical teamsIs eager to teach and learn from your team. We value making each other successful! 

• Is a lifelong learner. You’re constantly learning seeing and welcoming feedback to continue improving yourself and your craft

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days

📚 Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively 

🛫 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year 

🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

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.