Head of Data

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.

Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you’re the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!

About Shakepay

Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future. 

We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.

Head of Data

As the Head of Data, your role is pivotal at Shakepay. You will be responsible for managing and implementing our data program and strategy as a whole. You’ll work with our executive and product teams to develop the priorities of the business and ensure our data platform and engineering teams understand what needs to be built to support those goals. You’ll lead our data scientists to produce internal data products that make problems and opportunities legible to all stakeholders, and customer facing data products that deliver real value and personalized experiences.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the execution of a comprehensive data analytics strategy aligned with business objectives
• Build a data science function to support decision-making and influence the company strategy and product roadmaps
• Manage and mentor our data team, and cultivate a culture of high performance
• Implement Shakepay’s framework for automated decision making, risk detection and fraud prevention
• Partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize deep-dives on key business questions
• Evangelize a data-driven culture across the organization

Who we’re looking for 

• 5+ years of experience leading a data team 
• 7+ years of experience working on consumer facing products 
• Experience leading and building high-performing teams
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Ability to distill nuanced statistical findings accurately to a business audience is critical
• Technical proficiency in one of Python or R in a data science context and SQL
• Experience in experiment & A/B/n test design and analysis
• Experience conducting deep-dive statistical analysis (modeling, causality, regression, etc.)
• A demonstrated ability to manage and deliver on multiple projects with cross-functional teams and a high attention to detail
• Experience communicating both in low-level technical details as well as high-level strategies
• Knowledge of effective data visualization principles, tools and techniques
• Some familiarity with dbt (our data transformation tool)

Bonus points

• Experience with experimentation platforms like Statsig, Optimizely, Kameleoon, or others 
• Startup experience is a big plus, bonus points for B2C fintech experience
• Experience in credit risk modeling, strategy, monitoring and forecasting
• Experience working with cloud data warehouses (we use Snowflake)
• Knowledge of bitcoin

Why join us?

• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that’s revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
• Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues to gain traction, our potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians.
• Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development.
• Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options: Get rewarded with competitive pay and join our employee stock option plan.
• Health benefits from day 1: Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. 
• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• Learning and development: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Home office setup: A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses.
• Salary in bitcoin option: Choose to receive your salary in bitcoin – the soundest money to ever exist.
• Team and company offsites: Whether team-specific or company-wide, these events offer a great chance to connect and collaborate in person. 

We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you’re eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply. 

We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.

Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.