Senior Data Scientist
PayPal
Senior Manager, Data Science
PayPal
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois, New York
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💰 $169,500 - $291,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead a team of risk professionals focusing on managing the tenured SMB portfolio with a special focus on loss prevention
- Lead complex data science projects, ensuring they meet business objectives and deliver actionable insights
- Develop advanced data models and algorithms to analyze large datasets and solve complex business problems
- Collaborate with senior leadership to identify data-driven opportunities for business growth and efficiency
- Implement best practices for data management, analysis, and visualization
- Ensure data governance and compliance with relevant regulations and standards
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to the data science team
- Focus on developing policy/strategies leveraging analytical insights and instill end-to-end ownership of strategy development, execution, and monitoring
- Develop, plan, and execute SMB Risk Management roadmaps that bring value and quality to customers
- Collaborate with cross functional teams in Risk Products, Business Unit leaders, SMB Products, Fraud Risk Management, and Decision Science teams
Requirements
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Previous management experience
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to teams of data science with focus on Fraud and Credit Risk Management in the SMB space
- Conceptual knowledge on the concept of portfolio management
- Experience in credit card or deposit risk experience from financial institutions
- Focus on developing policy/strategies leveraging analytical insights
- Develop, plan, and execute SMB Risk Management roadmaps
- Collaborate and coordinate across teams and functions to ensure technical, product, and business objectives are met
- Experience working in a Fintech with Product and Engineering organizations is a plus
- Proven track record in driving positive outcomes between risk management and business leaders
- Establish outcomes and key results (OKRs) and successfully deliver them
- Drive improvements in key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Increase the productivity and velocity of delivery teams
- Excellent project management skills and ability to manage numerous projects under deadline pressure
- Strong analytical/problem-solving skills
- Strong ability to inspire/foster an inclusive/diverse culture
- Demonstrated ability to build/maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including influencing, conflict management, and negotiation
- Strong communication skills in explaining complex matters in a simple and clear manner
- Experience in partnering with senior business stakeholders in rapidly evolving environments
