Growth Data Science Director

Airwallex; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Head of Growth Data Science to lead the team responsible for using data, experimentation, and analytics to accelerate global growth. You will partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, and regional leaders to identify opportunities and define scalable measurement frameworks across the customer lifecycle.

This is a full-time, on-site role based in San Francisco, with a focus on building models, dashboards, and tools to guide investment and improve growth outcomes across

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data science, analytics, or quantitative strategy.
• 5+ years leading technical teams.
• Experience partnering with executives to influence growth strategy.
• Hands-on with experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, or machine learning.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python or R.
• Experience with modern data platforms and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic data partner to senior leaders across Growth, Product, Marketing, Sales, and regional businesses.
• Translate complex analyses into clear recommendations that shape business strategy and investment decisions.
• Establish a consistent, trusted framework for measuring growth performance across markets, channels, and customer segments.
• Lead analytical efforts across the growth funnel, including acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion.
• Identify opportunities to improve channel efficiency, customer journeys, pricing, and go-to-market performance.
• Develop segmentation, propensity, attribution, and optimization models to inform growth initiatives.
• Build and scale experimentation frameworks to measure the impact of product, marketing, and commercial initiatives.
• Lead the application of causal inference techniques to distinguish correlation from true incremental impact.
• Establish best practices for experiment design, measurement, interpretation, and decision-making.
• Own forecasting and planning models that support growth targets, resource allocation, and business reviews.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and analytical tools that provide timely visibility into growth performance.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to connect operating drivers with financial outcomes.
• Define the roadmap for applying machine learning and Generative AI to growth analytics and decision-making.
• Build intelligent tools that automate insight generation, improve targeting, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Partner with engineering and data platform teams to productionize models and analytical products.

Skills

Experimentation

Causal inference

Forecasting

Applied machine learning

SQL

Python or R

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Data Science/CS/Statistics

Job description

Airwallex is seeking a Head of Growth Data Science to lead the team responsible for using data, experimentation, and analytics to accelerate global growth. You will partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, and regional leaders to identify opportunities and define scalable measurement frameworks across the customer lifecycle.

This is a full-time, on-site role based in San Francisco, with a focus on building models, dashboards, and tools to guide investment and improve growth outcomes across