Data Scientist, Developers
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: Toronto, Canada
Company Description
Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.
There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.
Job Description
The Developers team is leading the evolution to an open platform that provides access to a rich ecosystem of services for our merchants. We are focused on helping third-party developers build applications and integrations to meet the needs of different merchants to help them better run their business. And good business for them is good business for us. As a Data Scientist on the Developers Analytics team, you will partner with engineering, product, design, and marketing and own data solutions end to end to improve the customer experience with a focus on acquisition and retention.
You Will:
Partner directly with the product team across the organization by applying descriptive and predictive analytics where it will have a material impact
Apply a diverse set of tactics such as statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning to research and produce insights
Lead and coordinate on complex projects that extend beyond the traditional boundaries of product domains, analytics, and data science
Communicate analysis and decisions to high-level partners and executives in verbal, visual, and written media
Lead the data strategy of embedded product engineering to help make well-informed architecture and design decisions that affect data at Square
Develop resources to empower data access and self-service so your expertise can be used where it is most impactful
Qualifications
You have:
5+ years of analytics and data science experience or equivalent
Experience building relationships to influence product partners with data
Experience leading projects that depend on the contributions of others in multiple disciplines
Experience applying both statistical and machine-learning techniques to solve practical product problems such as predicting churn, LTV, cross-selling, and clustering user archetypes
Familiarity with data warehouse design and best practices
Fluency with data, analytics, and visualization technologies (we use SQL, Looker, and Python)
M.S. in a quantitative field is a plus
Additional Information
We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.
Perks
We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.