Senior Data Scientist Growth
Shakepay is a Canadian financial services company that lets Canadians buy, sell, send, and hold bitcoin and ethereum. It also offers bitcoin rewards, direct deposit, cashback, and wallet transfers.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
Funding history
About Shakepay
Shakepay provides a Canadian crypto platform for buying and selling bitcoin and ethereum, sending money, and moving bitcoin to private wallets or cash to banks. Its offerings include recurring bitcoin buys, bitcoin rewards for shaking and shopping, direct deposit, referrals, business services, and private-client services. The company states that it is a CIRO member, registered as an Investment Dealer across Canadian provinces and territories, and licensed by FINTRAC as a Money Service Business.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will partner with engineers, designers, marketing, finance, and operations to identify growth opportunities and improve acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and customer experience. You will champion experimentation, define KPIs, apply statistical analysis, forecasting, causal inference, and machine learning, analyze user journeys and business performance, shape priorities, and build dashboards, models, and self-serve tools.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data science growth analytics experimentation or related roles
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
- Understanding of experimentation causal inference statistical analysis forecasting and KPI design
- Product and business intuition
- Cross-functional experience with marketing finance operations or product teams
- Ability to operate autonomously and drive ambiguous projects from idea to execution
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to manage and deliver multiple projects
- Understanding of dashboarding and data visualization tools
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineers and designers to improve acquisition activation retention monetization and customer experience
- Collaborate with marketing finance and operations teams to uncover growth opportunities
- Champion experimentation and decision frameworks
- Define KPIs and success metrics
- Use statistical analysis forecasting causal inference and machine learning to understand user behavior and business performance
- Analyze user journeys lifecycle behavior conversion funnels and financial performance
- Shape squad and company priorities with data-informed perspectives
- Build dashboards models and self-serve tools
- Maintain a shared and consistent data layer
- Foster experimentation curiosity and evidence-based decision-making
Benefits
- Stock options
- Yearly salary assessments
- Comprehensive health and dental coverage
- Health and wellness spending accounts
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada
- Optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
- $2,000 annual budget for courses certifications and training
- 20 days of vacation per year
- $1,000 bonus for using all vacation days
- Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites