Senior Data Scientist

Company Description

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $500 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion — and embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

Job Description

Data is a crucial part of Shopify’s mission to make commerce better for everyone. We organize and interpret petabytes of data to provide solutions for our merchants and stakeholders across the organization. This role is focused on leveraging data to improve the ways that merchants leverage the holistic suite of features offered by Shopify. This role will work closely with data, product, and marketing teams to help merchants find and use the features that will matter most to their businesses.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Proactively identify and champion projects that solve complex problems across multiple domains
• Partner closely with product, engineering and other business leaders to influence product and program decisions with data
• Partner closely with marketing teams to help drive awareness and adoption of critical features across Shopify
• Apply specialized skills and fundamental data science methods (e.g. regression, survival analysis, segmentation, experimentation, and machine learning when needed) to inform improvements to our business
• Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines: work closely with stakeholders to build instrumentation and define dimensional models, tables or schemas  that support business processes
• Build actionable KPIs, production-quality dashboards, informative deep dives, and scalable data products (e.g. tools to understand how merchants use all of Shopify’s different offerings)
• Influence leadership to drive more data-informed decisions
• Define and advance best practices within data science and product teams

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to tell powerful data stories, translate analytical insights into clear recommendations, and effectively communicate them to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience defining success metrics and the ability to communicate what actions items are needed to drive those metrics
• Experience partnering with PM, Engineering, UX, and Marketing to inform roadmaps and drive decisions
• Experience solving marketing data and measurement problems to improve the efficacy of various programs and campaigns
• Experience identifying key behavioral patterns and product that affect user needs, engagement, and lifetime value
• Extensive experience in product analytics, experimentation, metrics research, and working with engineers on instrumentation and robust data pipelining
• Extensive experience using Python and a deep understanding of advanced SQL techniques
• Experience with applied statistics and quantitative modeling (e.g. regression, survival analysis, segmentation, experimentation, and machine learning when needed)

Additional Information

Interested? Hit apply and let us know why you’d be a great match for the role!    

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.

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