Sleeper

Data Scientist – Platform Integrity

Sleeper

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $175,000 per year

About the role

  • Driving Growth and User Experience
  • Collaborate with product leaders to optimize our onboarding funnel to identify friction and areas for improvement
  • Build scalable analytics systems for continuous evaluation of user journeys and defining key metrics
  • Partner with engineering to implement real-time event tracking (Firebase, Amplitude etc)
  • Define schemas and instrumentation for user activity (account creation, sessions, device/IP data etc)
  • Collaborate on systems that balance user friction with platform integrity
  • Build analytical frameworks to surface signals that inform adaptive user flows (dynamic verification requirements etc)
  • Establish prevalence measurement methodologies to quantify fraudulent activities on the platform
  • Partner with our operations teams to triage and mitigate any ongoing threats to the platform
  • Classify transaction risk (payment method, account-level signals)
  • Apply clustering, anomaly detection etc to large scale behavioral data
  • Continuously evaluate implemented systems and iterate based on shifting market trends

Requirements

  • 4+ years of industry experience in data science, economics, analytics, or machine learning engineering
  • Advanced Degree in computer science, statistics, or a related field
  • Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, R, or similar) and big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, and Airflow
  • Experience building or working with event-based analytics systems
  • Familiarity with machine learning methods for classification, clustering, or anomaly detection
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product
Benefits
  • Competitive salary, equity
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible working hours and remote work options
  • Opportunities for career advancement
  • Unlimited PTO
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data scienceanalyticsmachine learningPythonRSQLHiveSparkAirflowevent-based analytics
Soft Skills
collaborationcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingcommunicationanalytical thinkingadaptabilityuser experience optimizationrisk classificationthreat mitigationcontinuous evaluation
Certifications
advanced degree in computer scienceadvanced degree in statisticsrelated field certification