Data Scientist

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role-
This role will drive critical business insights for senior leadership to tackle key strategic questions and improve how we operate as a business. You will facilitate important changes that will shape the future of PayPal leveraging advanced models and robust data to drive next-level risk insights.

Meet our team

PayPal’s GFCCP Fraud Risk team is responsible for partnering with global business units to manage a variety of risk of various types, including identity fraud, account takeover, stolen financial fraud, and credit issues. This is an exciting department that plays an important role in contributing PayPal’s bottom line financial savings, ensuring safe and secure global business growth, and delivering the best customer experience.
This open opportunity is within the Fraud Risk Business Intelligence (BI) team. The BI team addresses key strategic and critical business initiatives. It partners with leaders to develop business cases for potential investments. The team also provides insights and recommendations to ensure smooth execution with cross-functional partners.

Job Description:

Your way to impact

You will be the data scientist on the Fraud Risk BI team, where you will work on leading new analysis projects to build and improve the tools and use of data to inform business decisions. In this position, you will use a variety of methodologies and approaches to strengthen and improve the existing business porfolio, including data exploration and analysis, developing metrics, and building new features through ML or other suitable technologies.

Your day to day

• Design, build and maintain dashboards and data visualization supporting new intiative launches.
• Build new solutions and invent new approaches to big, ambiguous, critical problems.
• Respond to adhoc requests from business leaders to investigate critical aspects of the business
• Employ data mining, model building, segmentation, and other analytic techniques to capture important trends in risk portfolio.

What do you need to bring-

• 2-5 years of experience working with large-scale complex dataset.
• Strong analytical mindset, ability to decompose business requirements into an analytical plan, and execute the plan to answer those business questions
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and Python
• Excellent communication skills, equally adept at working with engineers as well as business leaders
• Want to build new solutions and invent new approaches to big, ambiguous, critical problems.

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

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Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:
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PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

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