Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies
while ensuring fair pay for all employees?
Syndio is a Series C technology company leveraging advanced technology and
responsible AI to accelerate decision-making, streamline compliance, and
democratize insights for consistent, equitable compensation practices at scale.
Backed by $83M in investments from Bessemer Venture Partners, Voyager Capital,
and Emerson Collective, we are expanding our team and products to help companies
align their rewards strategies with their business goals.
Our customers are our greatest asset. Syndio partners with many of the world’s
most recognized and respected enterprises, helping them implement leading-edge
compensation solutions with expert guidance. We analyze pay for over 10 million
employees across dozens of countries, ensuring fair, defensible rewards that
drive better business outcomes.
Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can
trust!
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a Data Scientist with a customer mindset to join our growing
data team and help transform raw, messy datasets into structured, useful data
products that drive both internal insights and customer-facing features.
In this role, you won’t just build - you’ll define, shape, and deliver. You’ll
work directly with stakeholders and subject matter experts to scope
opportunities, refine vision, and deliver data-powered solutions across our
intelligent pay products and internal tools. A major focus will be integrating
priority datasets, market benchmarks, and proprietary compensation data into
scalable and innovative product experiences.
You’ll also play a key role in supporting our AI Center of Excellence, helping
to prototype and deliver AI-powered tools that enhance internal workflows and
organizational productivity. We’re looking for someone with hands-on experience
building with generative AI - whether through LLM integrations, prompt
engineering, or building lightweight tools and agents.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who’s technically strong, deeply
collaborative, and excited to grow into a strategic role where initiative,
innovation, and leadership potential are valued.
WHY THIS JOB IS EXCITING
- Drive how our most important datasets power data-driven product features in
compensation and intelligent pay.
- Collaborate directly with stakeholders and SMEs to define and deliver scoped
product and tooling work.
- Support the AI Center of Excellence by designing and building GenAI-powered
internal tools that improve employee workflows.
- Build and maintain curated datasets and transformation pipelines in BigQuery.
- Develop and iterate on AI prototypes - from prompt-powered tools to agents -
to support cross-functional teams.
- Help identify new use cases and scale high-impact tools for both external
products and internal operations.
ABOUT YOU
- Experience in data science, analytics engineering, or related fields,
preferably in production environments.
- Strong business acumen — able to connect data and technology work to
organizational goals, understand tradeoffs, and prioritize for impact.
- Entrepreneurial and self-directed—you take ownership, propose solutions, and
drive initiatives forward.
- Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with both technical and
non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, especially for data wrangling,
transformation, and tooling.
- Hands-on experience building with generative AI (e.g., LLM-based tools,
prompt workflows, integrations) — agent experience is a strong plus.
- Experience working with large, complex datasets in a modern warehouse
(BigQuery preferred).
- Comfortable navigating ambiguous or messy data, with a problem-solving
mindset.
- Interested in compensation or HR data, and excited by the challenges of
scaling structured data in real-world applications.
- Motivated by impact and growth — you want to scale your influence and grow
into a strategic role with broader ownership over time.
Nice to have
- Experience in product management or people analytics
- Experience working with labor market data, salary survey data, or expertise
in Total Rewards
- Masters or PhD in Social Science, such as Economics
- Experience in project management
Why you'll love it here:
- 💰 Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $170,000
- $199,000 CAD per year. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such
as experience and expertise.
- 🏆 Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success.
- 🏝 20 day Vacation Policy. Plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and
voting leave.
- 🩺 Additional Private Medical Coverage
- 🏦 RSSP To help you save for your future
- Fully remote model - #LI-Remote
The interview overview
Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Staff Data Scientist
position. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we
may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before
making a final decision.
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- 45 minute zoom interview with the Hiring Manager
- A take-home assignment (This replaces live coding in further interviews)
- 1- hour interview with 2 member from our Data Science Team
- 30 minute final interview with our Director of Strategy
At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and
community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love
to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We
don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn
and grow with us.
Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and
collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of
gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion,
physical disability and age.
