Data Scientist

Summary

Join Syndio, a Series C technology company, as a Data Scientist to transform raw datasets into structured data products. Collaborate with data engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to improve data quality and usability within the BigQuery warehouse. Design and implement data cleaning and transformation pipelines, define canonical datasets, and explore creative scaling approaches. This role involves working with messy real-world data, cross-functional collaboration, and seeing direct product impact. Syndio offers competitive compensation, equity, flexible vacation, parental leave, comprehensive health benefits, life insurance, disability coverage, and a 401k plan. The company is fully remote.

Requirements

• Experience in data science, analytics engineering, or a related field, preference for production environments
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, particularly for data wrangling and transformation
• Experience working with large, complex datasets in a modern data warehouse (BigQuery a strong plus)
• Comfortable exploring imperfect data, identifying anomalies, and proposing solutions
• Skilled at collaborating with both technical and non-technical partners to shape data solutions
• Curious and creative—you’re excited to try new approaches to make data more useful

Responsibilities

• Design and implement processes for cleaning, transforming, and enriching structured data in BigQuery
• Create and maintain curated datasets that power dashboards, analytics, and in-product experiences
• Partner with domain experts, engineers, analysts, and product managers to understand data needs and shape solutions that work at scale
• Apply statistical, rules-based, or ML-driven methods to improve data quality and automate transformation where possible
• Build new product features that leverage our data, such as recommendations models and data insights
• Identify and address inconsistencies, ambiguities, and edge cases in compensation and HR datasets
• Contribute to internal data standards, documentation, and data catalog efforts
• Support downstream product and integration work by ensuring data is reliable and well-defined

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with compensation or HR data is a plus
• Interest in supporting future use cases in product integrations or AI-enhanced data workflows

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $133,000 -$156,000 USD per year, if hired in Calgary: $125,800-146,000 CAN. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise. We take a geo neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location
• Syndio Equity
• Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents
• Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium
• 401(k). To help you save for your future
• Fully remote model - #LI-Remote