Airwallex · 3 months ago
Staff Data Scientist, Growth
US - San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $280K/yr
7+ years expAirwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 150,000 companies worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Data Scientist, Growth to lead the data science team, develop predictive models, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive marketing strategies and investment decisions.
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Responsibilities
Uplevel the data science team by providing technical mentorship, assuming hands-on leadership to resolve complex problems, and setting the vision for longer term direction
Serve as a strategic thought leader with Marketing, Growth Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute GTM strategy and investment decisions
Develop predictive models to identify high-value users for Marketing and Commercial teams
Apply machine learning and/or statistical models to measure causal impact of Marketing initiatives
Develop attribution models to quantify the impact of different campaigns, channels, and other initiatives on conversions
Design and implement experiments to measure impact of ad spend, brand campaigns, and other Marketing initiatives
Qualification
Required
7+ years industry experience and an advanced degree (PhD or MS) in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, Computer Science, Economics)
Experience with communicating the results of analyses to leadership teams and cross-functional teams to influence the strategy
Technical mentorship experience with machine learning and experimentation in an industry setting
Expert in machine learning and statistical modeling to drive data-informed decisions, experience with deploying production machine learning models a plus
Expert in data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R); experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling a plus
Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous
Company
Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, payment solutions, and spend management tools.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.53BKey Investors
AdditionSquare Peg CapitalLone Pine Capital
2025-12-08Series G· $330M
2025-05-21Series F· $150M
2025-05-21Secondary Market· $150M
Leadership Team
Jack Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO
Jacob Dai
Co-Founder & CTO
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