Growth Data Scientist Remote, Impact & Stock Options

Shakepay; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Be an owner

Reach your goals

Health & wellness

Remote-friendly

Level Up

Time off

Parental leave

Have fun together

Job summary

Shakepay is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist, Growth, to identify and influence growth opportunities across engineering, product, marketing, and operations. You will turn ambiguous problems into measurable impact using experimentation, statistical methods, and product thinking to drive retention, acquisition, and monetization.

You will partner with squads to define KPIs, build dashboards, and create self-serve tools that illuminate growth metrics and business performance for millions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data science, growth analytics, experimentation, or related roles in high-growth environments.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Deep understanding of experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis, forecasting, and KPI design.
• Strong product and business intuition, with the ability to connect user behavior to company outcomes.
• Experience working cross-functionally with teams such as marketing, finance, operations, or product.
• Comfortable operating autonomously and driving ambiguous projects from idea to execution.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence decisions through data and clear reasoning.
• Ability to manage and deliver on multiple projects with high attention to detail.
• Curiosity, speed, and a bias toward action in fast-moving environments.
• Solid understanding of dashboarding and data visualization tools.
• Willingness to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with engineers and designers across our product squads to improve acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and customer experience.
• Collaborate with marketing, finance, and operations teams to uncover growth opportunities and drive better business decisions.
• Champion and evangelize experimentation and decision frameworks that help us ship and iterate quickly with confidence.
• Define KPIs and success metrics that help teams stay aligned around measurable outcomes.
• Use statistical analysis, forecasting, causal inference, and machine learning techniques to better understand user behavior and business performance.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities proactively through deep analysis of user journeys, lifecycle behavior, conversion funnels, and financial performance.
• Help shape squad and company priorities by bringing data-informed perspectives on impact, tradeoffs, and ROI.
• Build dashboards, models, and self-serve tools that improve visibility into growth and business performance across the organization.
• Collaborate with the broader data team to maintain a shared and consistent data layer that serves our stakeholders and internal agents.
• Foster a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and evidence-based decision-making across Shakepay.

Skills

SQL

Python

Experimentation

Forecasting

KPI design

Cross-functional

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

Shakepay is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist, Growth, to identify and influence growth opportunities across engineering, product, marketing, and operations. You will turn ambiguous problems into measurable impact using experimentation, statistical methods, and product thinking to drive retention, acquisition, and monetization.

You will partner with squads to define KPIs, build dashboards, and create self-serve tools that illuminate growth metrics and business performance for millions