Data Science Manager

Shopify is now permanently remote and working towards a future that is digital by design. While Berlin and Stockholm are our hubs, this role is open to candidates in European time zones. Learn more about what this can mean for you. 

Shopify is on a mission to make commerce better for everyone. Our platform currently powers over 1,700,000 businesses worldwide, with no plans of slowing down. We are impassioned by our vision of democratizing commerce and our pursuit of helping our merchants reach for independence. 2020 has taught us the world needs more Shopify. In 2021, we are continuing to rise to the challenge with massive plans to extend our reach.

Data Science & Engineering is a crucial part of Shopify’s mission to make commerce better for everyone. We organize and interpret petabytes of data to provide solutions for our merchants and stakeholders across the organization. From pipelines and schema design to machine learning products and decision support, data science at Shopify is a diverse role with many opportunities to positively impact our success. The Data Science & Engineering team acts as the impact multiplier for Shopify’s product teams, putting over 11 petabytes of data to work to make our merchants more successful.  From delivering merchandising insights, to optimizing shipping and processing rates, to reducing credit card fraud, to ad campaign recommendations - our Data Scientists deliver solutions from pipeline to platform via an array of open source tools. 

We are looking for Data Science Managers to join our Data Science teams and help shape the insights and algorithms that will inform our strategies as we grow globally.  

What your role will look like:

• Partner closely with product, engineering and other RnD stakeholders to guide their decisions using data

• Proactively identify and champion projects that solve complex problems across multiple domains

• Apply specialized skills and fundamental data science methods (e.g. experimental design, recommender systems and machine learning when needed) to inform improvements to our business

• Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines: work closely with stakeholders to build  models, tables or schemas that support business processes

• Empower teams to build and maintain actionable KPIs, production-quality dashboards, informative deep dives, and scalable data products

• 7-10 years of commercial experience as in a data science role solving high impact business problems, including 3+ years leading and maintaining high performance data science teams
• Experience building and managing high performance data science teams
• Experience delivering business impact through analysis and data products
• Experience building data pipelines and driving ETL design decisions
• Technical leadership and management experience (you enjoy doing both).  You can jump into the code to the level that your direct reports admire and respect, but are also interested in developing people and capacity for your team
• Experience creating data product strategies, shipping data products, iterating after launch, and trying again
• Extensive experience using Python including a strong grasp of object oriented programming (OOP) fundamentals
• Strong ability to prioritize and communicate to technical and non-technical audiences alike

It would be great if you have:

• Previous experience using Spark (either via Scala or Pyspark)
• Experience with statistical methods like regression, GLMs or experiment design and analysis, shipping productionized machine learning systems or other advanced techniques are also welcome
• Experience with data storytelling using Tableau, QlikView, Mode, Matplotlib, D3, or similar data visualization tools

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Natalia is an actual real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you and your interest in joining our team.

At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, racialized people, and/or people with intersectional identities. 
 

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/2021