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Senior Data Scientist, Total Rewards @ Wealthsimple

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About this role

Build something people love

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.

Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions. Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

Build something people love

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.

This is a 1 year secondment position with the Total Rewards team.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

Set up Talent data pipelines to support real-time reporting

Develop and deliver real-time dashboards and deep-dive insights on key outcomes related to Total Rewards programs, talent flows, and people-related spend

Own the end-to-end modeling, forecasting, and tracking of our total rewards budgets

Conduct rigorous analysis to measure the efficacy and return on investment (ROI) of all our total rewards programs, providing data-driven recommendations for program investment and design

Lead all pay fairness and internal equity analyses to ensure our compensation practices are fair and equitable

Model demographic and internal labour market changes against our total rewards programs and spend

What you’ll bring:

Data & analytics: You have proven experience with advanced analytics, statistics, and predictive modeling. Strong technical skills in coding (SQL), is a requirement. Experience in various data visualization platforms and tools is an asset (e.g., OneModel, Google Looker, Preset, etc.)

Data storytelling: able to explain data findings/solutions to non-technical audience.

Decision making: You are comfortable making sound decisions under pressure and ambiguity

Attention to detail: You sweat the details. You know what top tier performance looks like because you have been a high achiever yourself

Creativity: You are comfortable with thinking outside of the box and being open to new ideas. You are curious and take initiative to experiment with new ideas, technologies, and solutions

In the first six months of this role you will:

Establish a comprehensive understanding of our current data sources, systems, and reporting mechanisms related to people spend and total rewards

Build the foundational models for tracking talent flows, people spend, and total rewards budgets in real-time; and establish a regular reporting cadence for key outcomes

Partner closely with the Benefits Lead to build a dashboard to better understand benefits utilization, spend, and ROI of key rewards programs

Establish strong partnerships with relevant stakeholders across the People and Finance teams to deepen business context and build trust

Compensation & Equity

🤑 Base salary range: For this role, candidates located in Canada can expect a base salary range of CAD $151,200 - $189,000. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.

🚀 Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation. We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.

Why Wealthsimple?

🌸 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)

🌎 We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America - and one of the best things about working here is the people. You’ll be collaborating with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work.

Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions.

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple

We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple

We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Skills

Total RewardsPeople Operations & Communications

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