Wealthsimple

Senior Data Scientist, Sales

Wealthsimple • $100K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Toronto, ON
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in data science or decision science, with domain focus
  • Excellent SQL and Python skills; familiarity with pipeline tools like dbt and Airflow is an advantage
  • Strong stakeholder management; adept communicator for senior leadership presentations
  • Deep understanding of business practices, sales, and client behavior
  • Experience with applied statistics and experimentation, such as A/B testing
  • Knowledge of fundamental machine-learning algorithms and their production application
  • Experience in managing or mentoring team members, formally or informally

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain new, accurate, and reliable data models
  • Collaborate closely with stakeholders from various teams like Sales and Engineering
  • Define, prototype, implement, and improve machine learning models
  • Design experiments to test business hypotheses, e.g., customer targeting for outbound calls
  • Create and maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics supporting strategic goals
  • Teach and mentor teammates, fostering a culture of success

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Long-term group savings plan with employer match via Wealthsimple for Business
  • 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick/mental health days
  • Work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year
  • Access to employee resource groups promoting diversity
  • Hybrid work model with over 1,500 team members across North America
Full Job Description
The Sales Data team is responsible for supporting the entire Commercial team through data modeling, pipelining, dashboarding, experimentation, analyses, and machine learning models. Our stakeholder teams are diverse, including Financial Planners & Advisors, Business Development Representatives, our AI Voice Agent team, Revenue Operations and Commercial Systems.

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist who has strong foundations in data modeling and machine learning to lead high priority initiatives, take ownership as a decision science expert, and help shape the direction of our Commercial team and our AI Voice Agent program.

Some of your projects may include: modeling sales data, creating and improving reporting for business stakeholders, exploratory data analysis to improve our sales processes, and developing and maintaining ML models. Our models are used to solve real business problems and directly impact Wealthsimple's north star metric. Therefore, experience with supporting sales is a bonus.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Build and maintain new data models that are accurate and reliable
  • Work closely with a wide range of stakeholders from Data Science, Commercial Leadership, Sales Operations, Product, Design, and Engineering
  • Define, prototype, implement and improve ML models
  • Design experiments to test hypotheses (e.g. which customers should we focus on in our outbound calls)
  • Build/maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics to support our north star metrics
  • Teach and learn from their teammates. We value making others successful


What you bring:

  • 5+ years of experience in a data science/decision science (or equivalent), including time as the primary DS for a domain
  • Excellent SQL & Python skills - hands-on experience with data pipeline tools such as dbt and Airflow are an advantage
  • Strong stakeholder management skills - an excellent communicator who is able to present results and analyses to senior leadership
  • Good understanding of business practices, sales, and client behavior
  • Experience with applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting
  • Understanding of fundamental machine-learning algorithms and experience putting them into production in a real-world context
  • Experience in managing/mentoring team members in a formal or informal capacity


🌸 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 outside Canada for up to 90 days per year

Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS

We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.

ICYMI

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work - whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building.

About Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple is a financial services company that provides online investment management and trading services. The company's platform allows users to invest in a variety of financial products, including stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and offers a range of tools and resources to help users manage their investments. Wealthsimple also offers a high-interest savings account and a tax preparation service. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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Founded
2014

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