Senior Data Scientist, Fraud
Wealthsimple
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Work closely with product managers to identify business opportunities, define success metrics, and execute product strategies to improve client experience.
- Develop and deploy machine learning models for fraud detection.
- Design and analyze experiments for new product/feature launches.
- Monitor and report fraud trends and client experience gaps
- Believe that simple is better - Occam's razor is your friend.
- Take ownership and ship it; release incrementally and iteratively.
- Teach and learn from your teammates. We value making others successful
Requirements
- Experience in product analytics and experimental design.
- Experience in building end-to-end machine learning pipelines.
- Data storytelling: able to explain data findings/solutions to non-technical audience.
- Strong technical skills in coding (SQL & Python).
- Comfortable with software engineering best practices.
- Results-driven: keep things simple to achieve the product goals
- Curiosity: willing to dive deep into product strategies and business context.
- Experience working in the fraud domain is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
- Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
- 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
- Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
- 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
- A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
- Allocated number of Wellness Days that can be scheduled over the course of the year!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
machine learningfraud detectionproduct analyticsexperimental designend-to-end machine learning pipelinesSQLPythondata storytellingsoftware engineering best practicesresults-driven
Soft skills
curiosityownershipcollaborationteachinglearningcommunicationproblem-solvingsimplicityadaptabilityclient experience focus