Data Scientist

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Growth Data Science team and contribute to building smart financial products! Partner with cross-functional teams to design and execute experiments, build machine learning models, and create robust data models. You will translate business requirements into data-driven insights, ensuring data models are well-tested and maintained. This role requires strong Python and SQL skills, a solid understanding of statistics and machine learning, and excellent communication abilities. Wealthsimple offers a competitive salary, top-tier health benefits, retirement savings matching, generous vacation time, wellness and professional development budgets, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 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 teams
• Is eager to teach and learn from your team
• Is a lifelong learner

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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
• 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!)