Senior Data Scientist, Analytics (Growth)

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

We’re seeking a senior Data Scientist to partner closely with the Marketing team to derive actionable data-driven insights and to directly impact business outcomes. You will develop key Marketing reports, drive deep-dive analyses, and stay on top of market trends to develop and optimize our Marketing strategies. You’re naturally curious and have a track record of offering recommendations to enhance our brand presence and drive business growth.

You’ll join the Airwallex team during a critical period, where we are building a team that enables both global consistency in process, tooling and methodology and local flexibility and speed in execution. This is a great opportunity to shape the next phase of Airwallex’s growth.

What You’ll Do

Analyze data to assess performance and ROI of Marketing initiatives

Develop dashboards and reports to provide observability, enabling stakeholders to make data-driven decisions

Be the subject matter expert for all Marketing KPIs, consulting on Marketing data related projects

Partner with Marketing stakeholders to objectively measure campaign performance, and to identify actionable insights

Develop data-driven Marketing forecasts and budgets to inform organizational-level planning

Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams to identify opportunities for improvement in Marketing strategies and campaigns

Support experiments to measure impact of ad spend, brand campaigns, and other Marketing initiatives

Qualification

5+ years industry experience and an advanced degree (PhD or MS) in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, Computer Science, Economics)

2+ years of experience in Marketing Analytics or a similar role

Experience in digital marketing channels, including email, paid ads, and SEO is highly advantageous

Experience with communicating the results of analyses to executives and cross-functional teams to influence strategy

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

Great to have

Experience with Google Analytics, Marketo, and Salesforce

Knowledge of online A / B testing and experimentation frameworks

Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python), and / or statistical / mathematical software (e.g. R)

Ability to perform statistical analysis and develop machine learning models to drive data-informed decisions

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms / recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms / recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm / recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms / recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.