Staff Data Scientist, Growth Analytics

Airwallex
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 299,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Influence","Team mentorship"]

Lead and mentor a Growth Analytics team to identify opportunities, build data-driven growth strategies, and translate insights into scalable product-led initiatives across Growth, Marketing, Sales, and Product. Drive cross-functional impact with strong SQL/Python/R analytics, experimentation, and communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
10 months ago

Staff Data Scientist, Growth Analytics

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Job Summary

Lead and mentor a Growth Analytics team to identify opportunities, build data-driven growth strategies, and translate insights into scalable product-led initiatives across Growth, Marketing, Sales, and Product. Drive cross-functional impact with strong SQL/Python/R analytics, experimentation, and communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Operate as the technical partner to Growth, Marketing, Sales and Data Science leaders to define and implement Airwallex’s growth strategy
  • •Lead and mentor the team in applying data science techniques—root-cause analysis, statistical modeling, and experimentation—to identify opportunities and drive product-led growth (acquisition, activation, retention, reactivation)
  • •Establish insight-driven approaches to address key business problems and drive business impact
  • •Build scalable measurement frameworks that enable consistent, data-driven decision-making across teams and inform growth strategy
  • •Clearly and persuasively communicate data insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring findings influence stakeholders

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 299,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years industry experience in a quantitative field (Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, Computer Science, Economics)
  • •Advanced degree (PhD or MS) preferred
  • •Proven experience mentoring or leading data science or data analytics teams
  • •Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to influence strategy in high-growth environments
  • •Strong skills in SQL and Python/R; experience with data modeling a plus
Experience:7+ yearsGrowth analyticsData scienceData analyticsSQLPythonR
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingInfluenceTeam mentorship
Tech Stack:SQLPythonRData modelingStatistics

Company Brief

Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, cross-border payments, treasury, corporate cards, and embedded finance APIs to help companies manage global financial operations and scale internationally.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2015
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