Shakepay
Shakepay

Shakepay is a Canadian digital-asset company founded in 2018, offering an app for buying, selling, and earning bitcoin and ethereum. The platform is designed to let Canadian users open accounts, manage digital currencies, and complete transactions quickly, with features including commission-free trading and cashback rewards.

Shakepay operates as a Money Service Business under FINTRAC oversight and is registered as a Restricted Dealer across Canada’s provinces and territories. The company says customer assets are held in secure offline storage backed by insurance.

Senior Growth Data Scientist at Shakepay (Remote Canada)

Lead growth analytics and experimentation at Shakepay, using statistical analysis, machine learning, and customer insights to improve acquisition, retention, and monetization. Partner across product and business teams to guide measurable growth decisions.

Description

  • Collaborate with product engineers and designers to improve acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and customer experience
  • Work with Marketing, Finance, and Operations to identify growth opportunities and strengthen business decisions
  • Promote experimentation and decision frameworks that support rapid product launches and confident iteration
  • Define ideal customer profiles and success metrics to focus teams on measurable outcomes
  • Apply statistical analysis, forecasting, causal inference, and machine learning to evaluate user behavior and business performance
  • Analyze user journeys, lifecycle behavior, conversion funnels, and financial results to uncover high-impact opportunities
  • Provide data-led guidance on impact, trade-offs, and return on investment for team and company priorities
  • Create dashboards, models, and self-service tools that improve visibility into growth and business performance
  • Work with the Data team to maintain a consistent and shared data layer
  • Encourage experimentation, curiosity, and evidence-based decision-making across the organization

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in data science, growth analytics, experimentation, or a related discipline within high-growth environments
  • Advanced SQL and Python skills
  • Strong knowledge of experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis, forecasting, and ideal customer profile design
  • Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect user behavior to business results
  • Experience partnering across functions including Marketing, Finance, Operations, or Product
  • Ability to work independently and lead ambiguous initiatives from concept through delivery
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence decisions through clear, data-backed reasoning
  • Proven ability to manage and complete multiple projects with meticulous attention to detail
  • Curious, proactive, and comfortable moving quickly in changing environments
  • Strong knowledge of dashboarding and data visualization tools
  • Willingness to learn and develop in a fast-paced setting
  • Experience in a startup or high-growth consumer business
  • Experience with PostHog, Statsig, or Amplitude
  • Experience with dbt, Snowflake, and modern data platforms
  • Experience with lifecycle marketing, customer segmentation, or growth modeling
  • Current Shakepay customer status or familiarity with the product
  • Interest in and enthusiasm for Bitcoin and non-sovereign money
  • Fluent English is required

Benefits

  • Stock options are included in every employee’s compensation
  • Annual compensation reviews
  • Health and dental coverage with health and wellness spending accounts
  • Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to offices in Montreal and Toronto
  • Annual $2,000 allowance for courses, certifications, and professional training
  • 20 vacation days each year
  • $1,000 bonus when all annual vacation days are taken
  • Parental leave top-up of up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
  • Quarterly outings for teams or the entire company
  • Equity, performance-based salary increases, health and dental coverage, benefits, and paid time off

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