Job Description

Join Shopify’s Data Science & Engineering organization, where you’ll lead teams that drive impact at unprecedented scale—empowering millions of merchants to build their businesses. Our Data Science leaders are deeply embedded across product and business functions as strategic partners, not service providers. You’ll shape teams that don’t just analyze data—they build intelligent systems, define the metrics that matter, enable experimentation at scale, and create the infrastructure that powers decision-making across one of the world’s fastest-growing commerce platforms. With a philosophy centered on embedded partnership and ownership, you’ll have the autonomy to solve high-impact problems and the influence to shape how Shopify makes its most critical decisions.

We’re seeking exceptional leaders for three high-visibility, high-trust Director-level roles within our 500+ person centralized Data organization, reporting directly to the VP of Data:

• Product Data Science — Leading teams across Platform, Online Store, Merchandising, Checkout, B2B, and AI assistants
• Growth Data Science — Driving marketing mix modeling, incrementality, and attribution to optimize spend across all channels and regions
• Corporate Data Science — Building a single source of truth and delivering executive-ready insights; transforming finance data and tooling with FP&A; quantifying infrastructure cost, reliability, and unit economics; and powering external, data-driven storytelling

What you’ll bring:

• Organizational development: A track record building and leading best-in-class data teams (managers and senior ICs) in high-growth product environments.
• Data experience at scale: Leadership in companies where analytics on massive datasets drives product and business decisions and results in impactful data products.
• Product analytics expertise: Depth in metrics design, experimentation, behavioral analytics, instrumentation, and standardized dashboards for product surfaces spanning multiple domains.
• Corporate analytics expertise: Deep experience with executive reporting, data modeling and planning workflows, metric governance, and semantic layers; skilled at turning data into concise, executive-ready narratives and decisions.
• Measurement leadership: Experience aligning metric definitions and analytic methods across multiple product/business teams and initiatives.
• Data quality and reliability: Hands-on familiarity with data modeling, warehouse stewardship, data quality frameworks, and anomaly detection.
• Product mindset: Ability to get to the root of user and merchant problems and create data solutions that drive product outcomes.
• Communicator and influencer: Outstanding communication and presentation skills; can influence senior stakeholders and executives with clarity and candor.
• Reflexive AI use: You naturally reach for AI tools to write code, debug models, query data, and accelerate experimentation—treating AI as your default coding partner rather than an occasional assistant.

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. 

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion
• Use AI tools reflexively as part of your fundamental workflow
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work