Director, Growth Data Science

Your career is an investment that grows over time!

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 Data Science & Engineering (DSE) team consists of analytics engineers, data scientists, and software engineers with diverse educational backgrounds such as math, operations research, economics, computer science, engineering, and business. The team is responsible for enabling data-driven decision making and building data products at Wealthsimple.

We achieve these goals by: -Building a high quality and scalable state-of-the-art data warehouse that powers all decision making-Leveraging machine learning and algorithms to help Wealthsimple build smarter financial products -Using decision science to understand the cause and effect of our business decisions

About the role: At Wealthsimple, our Growth teams are the driving force behind innovative, customer-centric, and high-impact strategies that have propelled us to become the trusted financial partner for over 3 million Canadians. We are hiring for an experienced data scientist leader to join our Growth leadership team. This individual will work on some of the highest priority initiatives at Wealthsimple, ensuring that our growth strategy is well grounded in data and analytics.

Some of your projects may include, but are not limited to: modelling sales data; optimizing incentive campaigns; exploratory data analysis to improve our sales processes; developing and maintaining ML models. Our models are used to solve real business problems and directly impact Wealthsimple's ambitious goals.

What you will do:

• Manage the partnership with our Growth, product marketing, and sales teams to support works across some of Wealthsimple's highest priority efforts
• Lead a best-in-class team of data scientists and grow each individual
• Build robust, efficient, and integrated data models in cloud data warehouse that will be used as the source of truth for analytics across the Investing product organization
• Set organizational standards and influence our data science and engineering culture
• Apply statistical technique and build machine learning models to solve real life product problems and to inform product decisions and strategies
• Apply software engineering best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytic code base; ensure data models are well tested, documented and maintained
• Translate business requirements into data models and analysis that will help stakeholders answer key business questions and inform strategic decisions
• Continuously look for the simplest, most effective way to approach challenges; Occam's razor is your friend
• Take ownership and ship it
• Empower the team by leveraging their diverse educational backgrounds
• 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!)

Skills we are looking for:

• Experience leading multiple Data Science teams and a proven dedication to helping your teams and others to grow
• Experience with incentive strategies, personalization, and marketing optimization
• Strong business acumen and product sense and ability to help drive strategic vision
• 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: regression and decision trees

We are looking for someone who:

• Is 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
• Can coach people in their current roles to improve performance and prepare them for future roles
• Has exceptional communication skills and is able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical teams
• Plans, organizes, schedules, and budgets in an efficient, productive manner
• Is eager to teach and learn from your team. We value making each other successful!
• Is a lifelong learner. You're constantly seeking and welcoming feedback to continue improving yourself and your craft