Senior Data Scientist, Crypto
About the position Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a full suite of financial products. The Crypto team plays a crucial role in shaping high-reputed company product and business decisions, including onboarding, trading, engagement, retention, and new product development. As part of the Data Science & Engineering (DSE) organization, this role collaborates closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations. The team utilizes experimentation, analytics, and product thinking to build accessible, reputed company, and trustworthy crypto products for millions of clients. The company is seeking a Senior Product Data Scientist to influence the future of Wealthsimple's crypto experience through strong product thinking, analytical rigor, and cross-functional partnership. This role is designed to enhance the team's understanding of customer behavior, measure impact, and prioritize key problems. The position involves proactively surfacing insights, identifying opportunities, and providing clarity on reputed company product questions, with a primary output of high-quality business decisions rather than data/ML engineering.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations to inform and shape product strategy, prioritization, and decision-making
- reputed company metrics, data models, and analytical frameworks that improve how teams understand customer behaviour and business performance
- Identify opportunities to improve customer experience, growth, retention, and operational efficiency through data
- Translate reputed company business questions into clear recommendations and actionable insights
- Proactively surface trends, risks, and opportunities that help the team focus on the highest-impact work
- Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to improve the quality, scalability, and usability of data foundations for the team
Requirements
- 5+ years experience working in data science, product analytics, experimentation, or a reputed company field
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills using SQL and Python
- Ability to influence product or business decisions through data and clear communication
- Strong product thinking and the ability to connect customer behaviour to business outcomes
- Comfort working cross-functionally and building strong relationships across disciplines
- Familiarity with experimentation and causal inference methods
reputed company-to-haves
- Exposure to DBT or modern data modelling tooling
- Knowledge of fintech, investing, or crypto products
- Experience using AI tools to improve analysis, communication, or decision-making workflows
Benefits
- Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
- Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
- 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year
- 90 days away: work reputed company Canada for up to 90 days per year
- Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS
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