Data Scientist / Analytics Engineer

About Starshot Ventures

Starshot Ventures collaborates with leading technology brands worldwide to transform innovative ideas into momentum. With a global presence, the company creates and executes impactful marketing programs, partner campaigns, and memorable events designed to expand ecosystems and drive actual business growth. The team combines creative strategy with data-centric marketing, thriving on collaboration, curiosity, and bold thinking.

Starshot operates at the crossroads of technology, marketing, and experience design, managing initiatives from partner campaigns that generate demand to events that unite entire industries.

Role Overview

We are seeking a full-time Data Scientist / Analytics Engineer to join our Data & Analytics team. This role involves hands-on work developing scalable data pipelines, analytical models, and delivering insights tailored to marketing and campaign operations. It blends data science, analytics, and data engineering, ideal for professionals who enjoy managing the entire data lifecycle—from raw ingestion through modeling to driving business impact. You will be instrumental in shaping Starshot's data infrastructure, enabling more informed and timely organizational decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and sustain strong ETL/ELT data pipelines to ingest and transform data from diverse sources.
• Design and oversee scalable, clean data models to support analytics and reporting needs.
• Develop forecasting and predictive statistical models to enhance marketing effectiveness and targeting.
• Produce production-quality code for data processing, transformation, and advanced analysis.
• Collaborate with teams in Marketing, Operations, and Product to prioritize and address business challenges.
• Present clear and actionable insights to assist decision-making at both team and executive levels.
• Contribute to data governance initiatives, including standardizing campaign identifiers and ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Optimize and automate workflows to minimize manual reporting and strengthen data reliability.

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in roles such as Data Scientist, Analytics Engineer, or Data Analyst.
• Proficient coding skills in Python and SQL.
• Experience building or supporting data pipelines and data modeling beyond just analysis.
• Strong grounding in statistics, experiment design, and quantitative analysis.
• Experience handling large, complex datasets spanning multiple systems.
• Ability to effectively bridge responsibilities across analytics and data engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative discipline like Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Economics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background working with marketing, campaign, or customer data such as attribution analysis, funnel analysis, or customer segmentation.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure, Snowflake, Databricks), data transformation tools (like dbt), BI/visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau), and CRM or marketing platforms (for instance, Dynamics 365).
• Experience thriving in fast-paced, cross-functional team settings.

Candidate Attributes

• Comfortable managing both pipeline construction and data analysis tasks.
• Proactive problem solver with ownership mindset and decisive action bias.
• Capable of translating technical details into business-relevant insights.
• Detail-focused with a strong emphasis on data quality, consistency, and accountability.
• Adaptable to evolving data environments where systems are continuously built and standardized.

Why Work With Starshot

• Chance to build and scale a modern data platform for the company.
• Engage with critical areas such as marketing analytics, campaign architecture, and data governance.
• Join a team committed to practical, scalable data solutions rather than purely academic methods.
• Gain exposure to leadership and influence strategic decision-making through data.

Additional Information

While office locations exist in Toronto and Chicago, candidates across Canada can work remotely. The base salary for this position ranges between 110000 and 125000 CAD annually, supported by a comprehensive benefits package.

Starshot Ventures embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities. The recruitment and workplace environments are designed to be accessible to everyone; accommodation requests are welcomed.