Data Scientist

Lightspeed is seeking an experienced and skilled Data Scientist to join our growing team. As a Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in leveraging data-driven insights to enhance our business strategies, drive innovation, and optimize decision-making processes. Sitting on our newly established Data Science Enablement team, you will focus on building predictive and prescriptive models to solve a range of problems across various business units. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable solutions that drive our organization's growth and success.

**What you’ll be responsible for**:
**Data Analysis and Modeling**:

- Conduct data analysis using statistical and machine learning techniques to identify patterns, trends, and relationships within datasets.
- Develop predictive and prescriptive models to forecast trends, understand customer behavior, and optimize the performance of critical business metrics.
- Utilize various data sources and data preprocessing techniques to ensure data quality and integrity.

**Business Strategy and Insights**:

- Collaborate with business leaders to understand their challenges and goals, providing data-driven insights and recommendations that drive strategic decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to leverage data to improve product offerings, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

**Model Validation and Performance Monitoring**:

- Validate and assess the performance of deployed models regularly, ensuring their accuracy, stability, and effectiveness over time.
- Utilize monitoring systems to track model performance and detect deviations, providing timely feedback to maintain model integrity.

**Data Visualization and Communication**:

- Create clear and concise data visualizations and reports to communicate complex findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Translate analytical results into actionable business insights and present findings to senior management in a compelling and easily understandable manner.

**Experience**:

- Master's or Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics.
- Proven experience as a Data Scientist with successful project delivery.
- Expertise in Python & SQL, and proficiency in data manipulation and analysis using libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and sci-kit-learn.
- Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms and statistical modelling.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (we are using GCP) for data processing and analysis.
- Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, or Power BI).
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
- Effective communication and presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

**What’s in it for you**:

- Join a growing team and help us move to the next level.
- Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders.
- Constant development of both your skill-set and business acumen with limitless growth opportunities.
- Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture.
- Innovation time to explore and learn at work.
- Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees.
- Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles.
- Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company.
- Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family, a true Canadian tech success story.
- And enjoy a range of benefits that will keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry.
- Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners).
- Flexible paid time off and remote work policies.
- Health insurance.
- Contributions to your pension plan - RRSP.
- Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year.
- Paid leave and assistance for new parents.
- Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services.
- Training opportunities to grow your skills and career.
- Volunteer day.
- Fully stacked kitchen (hot and cold beverages, meals served).
- Happy hours to build your relationships with colleagues after work.

**Where to from here?**
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

**Who we are**:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simpli