Senior Product Data Scientist, Shopify
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
Job no longer available
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone, so businesses can focus on what they do best: building and selling their products.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in product analytics, experimentation, metrics research, and working with engineers on instrumentation and robust data pipelining
- Extensive experience in a data science role solving large-scale, high impact business problems
- Masterful data storytelling and strategic thinking, with an ability to inspire and cultivate the Data culture within your team
- Extensive experience using Python including a strong grasp of object oriented programming (OOP) fundamentals
- Deep understanding of advanced SQL techniques and data modeling
- Well versed with various Business Intelligence platforms and tools
- Experience working with various levels of business stakeholders, from c-suite to engineering and product development teams
- Working on multiple work streams excites you, and you are able to use ambiguity as an opportunity for high-level thinking
- Experience creating data product strategies, building data products, and continued iteration after launch
- Experience launching productionized machine learning models at scale is a plus
- Extensive domain experience in e-commerce, sales & marketing or SaaS is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Product Analytics professional, you'll be tasked with transforming raw data into actionable insights that will help guide the development and improvement of our products
- This role isn't for the faint-hearted or those seeking a conventional corporate structure - we operate on the principles of low process, high trust, and high impact
- It's all about getting things done quickly and efficiently, while continuously learning and adapting to changes in a dynamic environment
- Our product is designed to empower entrepreneurs. Consequently, the work you do will not only create value for our users but also contribute to global entrepreneurship
- As a Senior Data Scientist, you will partner with Product, Engineering, UX, and other disciplines to lead through data and achieve product/business goals
- Proactively identify and champion projects that solve complex problems in important business areas
- Partner closely with product, engineering and other business leaders to influence product and program decisions with data
- Holistically own general problems in those product/business domains and understand how those problems/domains interact with the rest of Shopify
- Build actionable KPIs, production-quality dashboards, informative deep dives, and scalable data products
- Apply specialized skills and fundamental data science methods (e.g. regression, survival analysis, segmentation, experimentation, and machine learning when appropriate) to inform improvements to our business
- Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines: work closely with stakeholders, especially data engineering, to build instrumentation and define dimensional models, tables or schemas that support business processes
- Influence leadership to drive more data-informed decisions
- Define and advance best practices within your data science and product teams
- There are several teams looking for Product Data Scientists to partner with and help drive value for our merchants. These include:
- Core Ecosystem, International, and Marketing:
- Merchants use Shopify in a variety of ways, using a wide array of first-party features and augmenting them with third-party apps. These all come together to help merchant’s meet their diverse needs. A shoe brand in Canada, a small jeweler in Japan, and a Fortune 500 company in Germany all need different tools so succeed! This Data Science team is focused on helping merchants make the most use of these different features and apps all over the world
- Checkout & Storefront:
- The Core Product Data Science team combines leading-edge analytical techniques with strong business & product acumen in order to drive better decisions and outcomes for Shopify’s merchants. Data Scientists turn data into actionable insights through a number of analytical methods, such as A/B tests, In-depth studies, advanced modeling, data visualizations, etc. to shape and support our product development strategies
- Executive Insights:
- The Executive Insights team supports Shopify leadership in setting the direction of the company, sharing our message of entrepreneurship to the world, and investing in building the best products for our merchants. We do this by combining a deep understanding of the entrepreneurs that use our products, our position in the marketplace and the challenges our merchants face
Our take
Prior to Shopify, eCommerce solutions for online businesses were a pretty ramshackle affair, either picked from a poor selection of expensive off-the-shelf products or developed in-house. Shopify was born from its founder's frustration in setting up a store to sell snowboards online. Since then it has grown into the world's biggest eCommerce platform, with over 1 million active merchants using the platform to sell almost anything imaginable over the internet.
Today Shopify has a commanding lead among eCommerce platforms, though it may be threatened by the rapid growth of its rival WooCommerce, which is popular in online stores built using WordPress. However Shopify has made moves to stay ahead of the competition, developing new products such as Shopify Collabs which makes it easier for influencers to collaborate with brands, and offering financing services to eligible merchants to support their business growth.
Shopify has enjoyed strong growth in the years since its IPO, achieving more than 26% revenue growth compared to 2022 in 2023 alone, driven by the continuing shift to online shopping and the improved capabilities of the platform. It will be looking to build on this growth by continuing to develop its range of products and making further strategic acquisitions to support its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2013
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $122.3m
Company benefits
- Great parental leave policies, including a $1000 baby bonus
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Ottawa, ON
Leadership
Tobias Lütke
(CEO)Launched an online snowboard shop before shifting to e-commerce and building Shopify
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