Senior Data Strategist

Lightspeed is looking for a creative and technically strong Senior, Data Strategist to join our Data Strategy team. As a Senior Data Strategist, you’ll be responsible for driving innovative, high-value data initiatives across the organization. This role focuses on the end-to-end data lifecycle, with a particular emphasis on data transformation, analytics, and data science. 

As a Senior Data Strategist, you will work on proof-of-concept projects to quickly assess their feasibility and potential impact, which will help inform our larger data strategy. Once validated, you will collaborate with other data professionals to transition these projects into scalable, robust solutions.

The Role: 

As a member of the Data Strategy team, you will be responsible for driving end-to-end data projects across multiple areas of the organization, with a focus on proof-of-concept projects that have high potential impact.

This is a full-stack data role from discovery and hypothesis development to data exploration, modelling, implementation, and impact measurement.

• Identify and pursue data projects with high potential value for the organization by immersing yourself in specific areas of the business.
• Solve complex technical problems through proof of concept and exploratory solutions.
• Design and execute robust A/B tests and other experimental frameworks, performing statistical analysis and causal inference.
• Measure the impact of your projects with thoughtful and creative techniques.
• Ensure clear communication and alignment with key stakeholders to drive successful outcomes, engaging and informing the stakeholders through compelling data narratives and visualizations.
• Lead the development and adoption of the highest analytics standards and methodologies among the Data Office and across the organization.
• Develop a deep understanding of our business processes, systems, and underlying data architecture.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement within the Data Strategy Team, identifying areas for optimization and driving initiatives to enhance data processes, systems, and quality. 
• Maintain collaborative relationships with data professionals across the organization.
• Demonstrate professional empathy by actively listening to stakeholders, understanding their needs, and building strong relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
• Identify and prioritize strategic group initiatives that should be supported by the Data Office as part of its evolving roadmap, leveraging the experience you’ll gain working with the business.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in roles involving data analytics, data science, data strategy, data engineering, or analytics engineering.
• Skills:
• Proven business acumen to understand organizational goals and align data initiatives with strategic objectives.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking.
• Creative mindset and strong intellectual curiosity to identify high-impact, underexplored opportunities for data-driven projects.
• Expertise in statistical and predictive modelling, data mining, and advanced analytics techniques.
• Advanced SQL skills for querying and managing relational databases.
• Expert-level Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or R for data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, or Power BI).
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Google Cloud, Azure, or AWS).
• Understanding of data modelling, ETL processes, and data pipeline development.
• Familiarity with modern data transformation tools such as dbt or Dataform.
• Experience with version control, collaboration, and workflow management (e.g., Github).
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, mentor team members and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple high-impact projects.

What’s in it for you: 

Be a changemaker

You’ll enjoy:

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work
• A culture that celebrates performance
• The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard
• Career-defining opportunities

Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.

• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies 
• Equity options, because this is your company too
• Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
• Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
• Interest groups, employee-led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
• Computer purchase program to get your personal MacBook
• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families
• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• People Experience - Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year 
• Health insurance: Immediate access to health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your eligible dependents.
• Employer RRSP contribution of up to 4% of base salary to a maximum of $5,000 
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
• Employee Technology Purchase Program: Ability to an interest-free loan to purchase certain Apple products
• LinkedIn Learning: At Lightspeed, we believe in having a growth mindset, we provide free access to LinkedIn learning along with your career GPS to help you learn & grow
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents
• Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
• Volunteer day
• We got you covered! A variety of snacks, coffee, and teas are always accessible and available in the office kitchen - Tuesday: Pancakes, Wednesday: Lunch is served, and Thursday is Happy Hour with a variety of drinks and snacks.

Fuel your growth. Find your people.

At Lightspeed, your growth is our priority. We invest in you with continuous learning opportunities, global mobility and benefits designed to support you—all within a driven, diverse and inclusive team that’s passionate about empowering our communities.

At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skill set, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the total compensation for this position to be in the range of $120,000 CAD- $140,000 CAD. Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.Please note that this compensation information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within Ontario and reflects the amount Lightspeed is willing to pay at the time of this posting. This role represents an existing vacancy at Lightspeed. Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.

 

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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 simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.     Lightspeed handles your information in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Statement.