Senior Data Scientist, Growth Data

🕒 October 5

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 CA$151k - CA$189k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Posted on Wealthsimple's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship October 5

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Wealthsimple

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💳 Fintech

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $393M Series E - Wealthsimple on 2025-10

Consulting • Insurance • Fintech

Wealthsimple is a Canadian financial technology company that provides consumer banking, investing, and wealth management services. It offers chequing accounts, savings, credit cards, self-directed trading (stocks, ETFs, options), cryptocurrency trading, managed portfolios, tax services, and advisory wealth management for high-net-worth clients. Wealthsimple combines digital-first banking and low-fee investing products aimed at retail customers, along with tools and educational content to support personal finance.

📋 Description

• Serve as domain expert for a key marketing pillar and directly responsible individual for the domain area • Build data products and algorithms optimizing budget allocation, targeting strategies, and multi-channel campaign performance • Design and implement marketing measurement strategies, including attribution modeling, incrementality analysis, and multi-touch attribution • Drive marketing strategy through data insights, A/B testing, and causal inference to maximize marketing-spend ROI • Develop and maintain analytics pipelines and data infrastructure with data engineers and data scientists • Conduct exploratory analysis to identify growth opportunities, understand customer behaviour, and optimize marketing tactics • Provide reporting, dashboards, and ad-hoc analytics support to marketing stakeholders • Leverage AI tooling to handle operational tasks efficiently • Partner with Google, Meta, and other ad platforms and internal engineering teams on tracking, data integration, and measurement • Collaborate with Growth, Product, Engineering, marketing stakeholders, data engineers, and data scientists • Own projects end to end and ship simple, effective solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Understanding of digital marketing mechanics including attribution, ad platforms, tracking, and conversion optimization • Experience working with lifecycle data and understanding ways of reaching new and existing customers holistically • Strong technical skills in Python and SQL with experience building production-quality code • Proven track record in algorithm development, optimization problems, or building data-driven decision systems • Strong foundation in causal inference, A/B testing, and experimental design • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders • Demonstrated ownership as the data DRI on complex projects end to end • Ability to use AI effectively while providing strategic guidance and critical thinking • Full-stack data science experience, from dashboards and reporting to sophisticated algorithm development • Ability to contribute to strategic direction in marketing analytics from day one with minimal ramp-up time • Experience with marketing measurement, attribution, and incrementality • Ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and manage complexity • Willingness to teach, learn, and seek feedback • Experience at larger-scale tech companies developing internal analytics and optimization systems is ideal • Must be legally eligible to work in Canada

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity compensation for permanent employees • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance • Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business • 20 vacation days per year • 4 wellness days per year • Unlimited sick and mental health days per year* • Ability to work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year* • Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS • Remote-first work from anywhere in Canada • AI tooling to amplify impact and focus on strategic challenges • *Unlimited paid sick days, Wellness Days and the 90 day away program do not apply to certain roles.

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