Sr Data Scientist, Payments

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The Challenge

●  Be a thought leader, partner with your cross-functional partners to foster a data driven payments organization.

●  With a focus on Payments compliance and keeping our platform safe, anticipate and detect new fraud trends and regulatory requirements.

●  Define and evaluate key metrics. Build the data foundation you need, in partnership with the data engineering team.

●  Deliver actionable user-insights to build the best products and models

●  Design experiments to measure the impact of new payments features

●  Empower the product and engineering teams to make data-driven decisions

What you need to succeed

●  4+ years industry experience in a quantitative analysis role. Experience in Payments a strong plus

●  Fluent in SQL and proficiency in analytical tools such as Python, R, etc.

●  Background in statistics and experience with experimentation

●  Solid understanding of product analytics

●  Experience or willingness to learn tools to create data pipelines using Airflow/Minerva

●  Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to cross functional partners of

varying technical levels