Shopify is hiring a Staff Data Scientist - Checkout (Remote, United States)

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $496 billion in sales for 2 million merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

About the role

The Core Data Science Checkout teams combine leading-edge analytical techniques with strong business & product acumen in order to drive better decisions and outcomes for Shopify’s merchants. 

They work closely with product partners at every step in the decision-making lifecycle to ensure the best possible checkout experience for every sales channel of digitally native merchants of any scale. 

As a Staff Data Scientists, you will partner with Product and Engineering to develop experiments and data products, with a focus on solving important problems rather than using specific tools. We are looking for talented data science leaders who can help us better understand our merchants and buyers so we can help them on their journey.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a data science role solving large-scale, high impact business problems
• Masterful data storytelling and strategic thinking, with an ability to inspire and cultivate the Data culture within your team
• Extensive experience in product analytics, experimentation, metrics research, and working with engineers on instrumentation and robust data pipelining
• Extensive experience using Python including a strong grasp of object oriented programming (OOP) fundamentals
• Deep understanding of advanced SQL techniques
• Experience working with various levels of business stakeholders, from c-suite to Data Science senior leadership
• Working on multiple work streams excites you, and you are able to use ambiguity as an opportunity for high-level thinking
• Experience creating data product strategies, building data products, and continued iteration after launch
• Experience launching productionized machine learning models at scale is a plus
• Extensive domain experience in e-commerce, marketing or SaaS is a plus

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.

Interested, but not ready to apply? 

Join the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish up your resume: https://www.shopify.com/careers/teams/engineering

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.

The shape of a Shopify career

Ben joined Shopify as a frontline Support Advisor with no background in programming or computer science. He’s now a Director of Engineering. Spanning 10 jobs on 7 teams in 9 years, Ben’s Shopify career path has twisted and turned as he’s worked relentlessly to pursue a career as an engineer and adapted to the pace of change—all fuelled by personal and professional hypergrowth.

Our mission as a company is to spread entrepreneurship and help individuals become their own bosses and take control over their lives. I truly believe this mission and value in extreme personal growth and development extends to what’s expected as a Shopifolk. Shopify doesn’t like to tell people what to do. Not only is your career in your own hands, a lot of your day-to-day is too, which can be jarring for many people. To thrive here, you need to be someone who’s willing to take big bets on yourself and figure things out on your own.

Ben Cox

Director, Support & CX Engineering