PayPal is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to generate insights by mining PayPal's rich data, aiming to deepen understanding of the Consumer Experience, Payment businesses, and site functionality, thereby strengthening analytic, leadership, and presentation skills.
Requirements
- Advanced SQL experience, preferably with Teradata systems, data mining, and Big Query analytics (Google Cloud).
- Expertise in stitching together findings to convey coherent insights
- Experience analyzing very large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets.
- Experience with one or multiple of the following will be highly desirable; Python, Tableau, Jupyter Notebooks, Teradata, Hadoop/Hive, SQL, BigQuery
- Ability to solve problems analytically and create actionable recommendations
- Advanced ability to use reporting tools like Tableau and/or Excel to share analysis
- Proficiency with database, spreadsheet, and statistical tools
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of advanced data science models.
- Perform deep-dive analyses on key business trends from multiple perspectives and package the insights into easily consumable presentations
- Identify key metrics and drive the building of exec-facing dashboards to track the progress of the business and its highest-priority initiatives
- Identify key business levers, establish cause & effect, and communicate key findings to various stakeholders to facilitate data-driven decision-making
- Engage in problem-solving with Risk, Product, Marketing, and various other teams to determine performance trends and root causes.
- Support new product launches by establishing test and control plans and ensuring constant monitoring is in place to track product performance.
- Create close relationships with stakeholders to anticipate & answer questions that might be asked by executives
Other
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 7 years of professional experience in an analytical role; Experience managing a small team of analysts will be a plus
- Work experience in the payments, eCommerce, or financial services industry is a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex problems into simpler terms, and effectively influence both peers and senior leadership
- Experience in managing/mentoring a small team would be a plus.
