Senior Data Scientist

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At XE, we live currencies. We provide a comprehensive range of currency services and products, including our Currency Converter, Market Analysis, Currency Data API and quick, easy, secure Money Transfers for individuals and businesses. We leverage technology to deliver these services through our website, mobile apps and over the phone.

Last year, we helped nearly 300 million people access information about the currencies that matter to them and over 150,000 people used us to send money overseas. Thousands of businesses relied on us for information about the currency markets, advice on managing their foreign exchange risk or trusted us with their business-critical international payments.

At XE, we share the belief that behind every currency exchange, query or transaction is a person or business trying to accomplish something important, so we work together to develop new and better currency services that put our customers first. We are proud to be part of Euronet Worldwide (Nasdaq: EEFT), a global leader in processing secure electronic financial transactions. Under Euronet, we have brought together our key brands – XE, HiFX and Currency Online– to become the business that XE is today.

About This Position

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Data Science team. You will play an integral part of the team, providing analytical excellence which will drive both Ria and XE’s strategy. At both Ria and XE, your contributions can be appreciated by millions of people around the world, therefore we are looking for someone who is determined to show the world the power of applied analytics.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about asking and answering questions in large and complex datasets, and you can communicate that passion to business owners and other staff, then this is the role for you.

The Data Scientist, will be responsible for:

• Working on projects such as supervised & unsupervised model development
• Owning analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap
• Designing rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions
• Developing statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our products and services
• Building simulations to project impact of various product and policy interventions
• Enabling objective decision making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools
• Using expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling, behavioral decision theory etc. to shape the future of Ria and Xe
• Presenting findings in a compelling way to influence leadership
• Supporting other projects as directed by more senior staff

Requirements

• Business acumen - understands key challenges facing our business and partners with key stakeholders to find creative ways to apply data science to solve them
• Analytical skills – identify, measure, and impact the important metrics needed to manage and monitor data quality; able to simplify complex content
• Attention to detail – appropriately checks all work for errors and does not let important details slip when it comes to data and its accuracy
• Creative problem solving - able to use creativity and curiosity as tools to pick apart any problem, producing a solution which is relevant and realistic
• Efficiency – able to quickly iterate on data generation and refinement. Looks for ways to improve processes to maximize efficiency and remove redundancy
• Proactivity – acts without being told what to do at each step; generates novel ideas and processes to drive the business and team forward

Benefits

IMSS

INFONAVIT

5% Food Vouchers

15 vacation days per year

30 Christmas bonus day per year