Senior Data Scientist, Wealthsimple
Growth Product
CA$151.2-189k
+ Equity
Professional investing services made simple
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Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$151.2-189k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in data science, decision science, or a similar quantitative role, including experience as the primary data scientist for a product domain or function
- Strong product analytics skills. A deep experience understanding user funnels, activation metrics, and translating product usage data into actionable growth insights
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Able to partner closely with product managers and present complex analytical findings to senior leadership
- Curiosity and ownership: willing to dive deep into product strategies, business context, and data to surface insights proactively while handling ambiguity
- Deep expertise in experimental design and causal inference (A/B testing, non-inferiority tests, factorial designs, power analysis, and related methods). This is core to the role
- Strong technical skills in SQL and Python, with hands-on experience in data pipeline tools such as dbt and Airflow
- Strong understanding of data visualization and analytics engineering principles
- Results-driven mindset: comfortable keeping things as simple as possible to achieve product goals
- Able to build and maintain multi-functional relationships with various teams across the business
- Prior experience in growth, go-to-market, or product-led growth data science is a strong plus (but not essential)
- Experience in fintech or financial services is a plus
- Experience mentoring or coaching junior data scientists is a plus
What the job involves
- Be the dedicated data science partner to the Consolidation product team, owning the analytics and modeling that power product-led growth across onboarding, activation, and full consolidation
- Design and analyze rigorous product experiments across the client journey, from first funding through to full asset consolidation, using A/B testing, non-inferiority tests, and other causal inference methods to measure the impact of product changes on key growth metrics
- Partner with the team's Personalization DRIs to incorporate machine learning models, such as next-best-account recommendations and personalized value propositions, into product flows where they will deliver the highest impact to clients
- Develop deep product analytics to understand how clients move through the consolidation funnel, linking external accounts, reaching their first $5k, adopting multiple products, and identify where the biggest opportunities exist to accelerate that journey
- Create and maintain data models and dashboards that monitor consolidation KPIs (Premium+ conversion, registrant-to-funded rates, linking rates, activation milestones) with a focus on data quality, accessibility, and efficiency
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Growth, and Lifecycle Marketing to translate analytical findings into product decisions and shipped features
- Proactively identify and size growth opportunities by being closest to the data, and then partner with stakeholders to get those opportunities prioritized and executed
- Build automation tools and pipelines that increase team efficiency and scalability
- Contribute to the team's culture of learning and knowledge sharing. Teach and learn from your teammates, and help make others successful
- Take ownership and ship iteratively; believe that simple is better and Occam's razor is your friend
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratise investment management. These companies are disrupting the industry by automating many of the processes involved in investment, removing the need for human advisors.
But while other so-called robo-advisors are focused on courting the high end of the market, Wealthsimple is trying to provide the same types of tools and advice to all users, regardless of the amount they have to invest.
Wealthsimple does have higher fees than some other robo-advisors such as Betterment and Charles Schwab. However, the company believes that it provides a more user-friendly platform, tailored to millennials who will be attracted to Wealthsimple due to its ease of use and social impact offerings.
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Insights
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$402.2m
LATE VC
May 2021
$548.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
- Company equity for full-time employees
- Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
- Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
- 20 vacation days per year
- 90 Days Away program
- Top-tier health benefits
- Life & disability insurance
- Generous sick and mental health days
- Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
- Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
- Gender Affirmation benefits
- Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
- Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
- Employee resource groups
- Social impact hours
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Katchen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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