Manager of Data Science, Wealthsimple
Growth Product
Professional investing services made simple
Open for applications
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work
- Proven experience in designing complex experiments to establish causal relationships in client behaviour
- Strong expertise in building scalable data machine learning architectures
- Hands-on experience with product analytics and extracting insights from web and app data
- Ability to leverage data-driven solutions (e.g., embedded ML models, optimized incentive systems) to drive product growth
- A player-coach mentality - comfortable leading a team while actively contributing as an individual contributor on key projects
- Excellent SQL and Python skills
- Excellent communication skills, able to articulate their stance in a collaborative manner to drive agreement among technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to prioritize for impact and manage expectations with stakeholders
What the job involves
- Lead a small but high-impact team of data scientists, collaborating with Product, Marketing, and Sales to understand our clients and develop data-driven systems that enhance their experience
- Design and execute experiments to uncover client preferences and inform product strategy
- Build and deploy machine learning models to predict client behaviour and integrate them into the product experience to drive engagement
- Generate actionable insights using statistical techniques and analytical best practices to identify product opportunities
- Develop proof-of-concepts (POCs) and work with stakeholders to secure buy-in for data-driven solutions
- Mentor, coach, and guide data scientists, helping them grow and maximize their impact
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratize 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 8 rounds)
May 2021
$540.4m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $840.3m
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
(CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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