Senior Data Scientist, Growth

What you’ll be doing

• 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

Who we’re looking for

• 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
• A demonstrated 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

Bonus points

• Experience in startup or high-growth consumer environments
• Experience with experimentation and product analytics platforms such as Posthog, Statsig, Amplitude
• Experience working with dbt, Snowflake, and modern data stacks
• Experience with lifecycle marketing, customer segmentation, or growth modeling
• Existing Shakepay customer and/or familiarity with the product
• Interest and enthusiasm for the possibilities enabled by Bitcoin and non-sovereign money