Senior Data Scientist, Growth Analytics

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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

 

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

 

About the team

The Growth Analytics team at Airwallex is a dynamic group of data scientists and analytics professionals. We are passionate about leveraging data to drive business growth, optimize strategies, and unlock new opportunities across the company. As key partners to Growth, Marketing, Sales, and Product, our team works collaboratively to enable data-informed decision-making, experimentation, and scalable measurement frameworks supporting Airwallex’s global expansion.

Learn more about the data science team in this blog

What you’ll do

• Partner closely with Growth, Marketing, Sales, and Product teams to derive actionable data-driven insights and impact business outcomes

• Analyze data to assess performance and ROI of marketing and growth initiatives

• Develop dashboards and robust, scalable measurement frameworks to empower data-driven decision-making

• Identify trends and improvement opportunities to sharpen growth and marketing strategies

• Act as the subject matter expert for marketing KPIs and analytics best practices; consult on marketing data projects

• Design and conduct experiments to measure the impact of ad spend, brand campaigns, and other initiatives

• Translate open-ended or complex business challenges into high-impact, structured analytics projects

• Communicate analysis results clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing strategy and decisions

Who you are

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

• Experience with digital marketing channels such as paid media and SEO in a B2B environment

• Experience in marketing measurement including RoAS, incrementality testing and MMM is highly advantageous

• Strong technical proficiency with SQL, Python, and/or R; experience in dimensional data modeling and schema design is a plus

• Proven experience presenting actionable, data-driven recommendations to executives and cross-functional teams

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in high-growth, cross-functional environments

• Experience in technology, financial services, or high-growth organizations is advantageous

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with Google Ads Platform, Google Analytics and A/B testing frameworks

• Familiarity with Marketo and Salesforce will be a plus

• Ability to perform advanced statistical analysis and develop machine learning models

• Proven experience employing AI in analytics workflow

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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.