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Data Scientist - Fraud Risk

Summary

Build and maintain fraud-risk dashboards, real-time monitoring, and ML models to balance loss prevention with customer experience for a fintech company.

You will own fraud-risk metrics, dashboards, and reports that support decision-making. You will design real-time monitoring, alerting, predictive models, and risk controls while balancing loss prevention, customer experience, and margins. You will communicate analytical findings and support partners with fraud concerns.

Responsibilities

  • Own metrics, dashboards, and reports that inform business strategy and decision-making
  • Design and implement real-time monitoring systems for fraud signals and alerting thresholds
  • Design, simulate, and implement real-time risk controls using predictive ML models
  • Balance risk controls with customer experience, loss savings, and margin improvement
  • Partner with go-to-market teams to demonstrate the value of risk controls
  • Summarize analytical results for leadership and non-technical stakeholders
  • Assist partners with fraud concerns

Requirements

  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with automated fraud-risk strategies, experimentation, and predictive ML models
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining dashboards and fraud-risk metrics
  • Quantitative bachelor's degree or higher

Benefits

  • Unlimited time off with a 10-day minimum
  • Flexible work arrangement
  • Home-office stipend
  • Health, dental, vision, and company-subsidized life insurance for US employees
  • 401(k) with 4% company match
  • Equity option plan
  • Card for product testing
  • Health and wellness spending
  • Domestic and international team and company off-sites

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