[Hiring] Staff Data Scientist, Growth @Shakepay

Role Description

We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join one of our cross-functional squads at Shakepay. You’ll work closely with engineering and design, while also partnering across marketing, finance, and operations to help us identify growth opportunities and make smarter decisions across the business.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, enjoys operating with high autonomy, and can turn ambiguous problems into measurable impact. You’ll combine experimentation, statistical rigor, business intuition, and product thinking to influence how we grow, retain, and better serve millions of Canadians.

What you’ll be doing

• Partner closely with engineers and designers across our product squads to improve acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and customer experience.
• Collaborate with marketing, finance, and operations teams to uncover growth opportunities and drive better business decisions.
• Champion and evangelize experimentation and decision frameworks that help us ship and iterate quickly with confidence.
• Define KPIs and success metrics that help teams stay aligned around measurable outcomes.
• Use statistical analysis, forecasting, causal inference, and machine learning techniques to better understand user behavior and business performance.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities proactively through deep analysis of user journeys, lifecycle behavior, conversion funnels, and financial performance.
• Help shape squad and company priorities by bringing data-informed perspectives on impact, tradeoffs, and ROI.
• Build dashboards, models, and self-serve tools that improve visibility into growth and business performance across the organization.
• Collaborate with the broader data team to maintain a shared and consistent data layer that serves our stakeholders and internal agents.
• Foster a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and evidence-based decision-making across Shakepay.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data science, growth analytics, experimentation, or related roles in high-growth environments.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Deep understanding of experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis, forecasting, and KPI design.
• Strong product and business intuition, with the ability to connect user behavior to company outcomes.
• Experience working cross-functionally with teams such as marketing, finance, operations, or product.
• Comfortable operating autonomously and driving ambiguous projects from idea to execution.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence decisions through data and clear reasoning.
• A demonstrated ability to manage and deliver on multiple projects with high attention to detail.
• Curiosity, speed, and a bias toward action in fast-moving environments.
• Solid understanding of dashboarding and data visualization tools.
• Willingness to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Experience in startup or high-growth consumer environments.
• Experience with experimentation and product analytics platforms such as Posthog, Statsig, Amplitude.
• Experience working with dbt, Snowflake, and modern data stacks.
• Experience with lifecycle marketing, customer segmentation, or growth modeling.
• Existing Shakepay customer and/or familiarity with the product.
• Interest and enthusiasm for the possibilities enabled by Bitcoin and non-sovereign money.

Benefits

• Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
• Yearly salary assessments.
• Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
• Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
• Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.