Data Science, Consultant

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

• Develop data science model for people analytics functions
• Teaching and educating consumers of the models on how to interpret and take action on the insights
• Identifying requirements for the data team to build views and incorporate new source data as needed
• Provide predictive outputs that can either be incorporated into dashboarding and reporting for insights or embedded into the planning process
• Collect feedback from customers and coach team members to ensure we are providing the best customer experience
• Develop mechanisms across the team to ensure we can prioritize across the customers and balancing the competing needs from across the organization

Qualifications

• 3 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD)
• Experience consulting in the People Analytics space, developing models and insights specifically focused on people outcomes and objectives
• Experience in platforms such as R/Python/SPSS/SAS
• Experience providing requirements to developers and product owners, ensuring customers’ needs are considered
• Experience in prioritizing across customers and facilitating discussions around roadmap planning


Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working in an agile environment, breaking down work into various tasks, identifying dependencies, and managing capacity through a sprint planning process
• Experience in data warehouse design and optimization
• PhD in related field (Statistics, I/O Psychology, etc.)

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.