Wealthsimple

Senior Data Scientist, Fraud

Wealthsimple

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$151,200 - CA$189,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Work closely with product managers to identify business opportunities, define success metrics, and execute product strategies to improve client experience.
  • Develop and deploy machine learning models for fraud detection.
  • Design and analyze experiments for new product/feature launches.
  • Monitor and report fraud trends and client experience gaps
  • Believe that simple is better - Occam's razor is your friend.
  • Take ownership and ship it; release incrementally and iteratively.
  • Teach and learn from your teammates. We value making others successful

Requirements

  • Experience in product analytics and experimental design.
  • Experience in building end-to-end machine learning pipelines.
  • Data storytelling: able to explain data findings/solutions to non-technical audience.
  • Strong technical skills in coding (SQL & Python).
  • Comfortable with software engineering best practices.
  • Results-driven: keep things simple to achieve the product goals
  • Curiosity: willing to dive deep into product strategies and business context.
  • Experience working in the fraud domain is a plus
Benefits
  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
  • 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
  • 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
  • A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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