Data Scientist
Summary
Wave Mobile Money is hiring a Data Scientist to partner with product and operations teams: analyzing customer, merchant, and internal data, designing operational and promotional optimizations, and building heuristics and machine-learning models while owning projects end to end. Core tools are Python, SQL, and data visualization, with ML, causal inference, and A/B testing experience.
You will work with product and operations teams to solve business problems using data. You will generate insights from customer, merchant, and internal data; design and evaluate operational and promotional optimizations; build heuristics and machine-learning models; and own projects from scoping through stakeholder communication.
Responsibilities
- Generate insights using customer, merchant, and internal data
- Design, implement, and analyze operational, promotional, and agent-network optimizations
- Build data-driven heuristics and machine-learning models
- Own analytics projects from scoping and design through stakeholder communication
- Partner with product managers and business leaders to solve practical problems
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field
- 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or technical analytics
- Expertise in Python, SQL, and data visualization tools
- Experience with machine learning, causal inference, statistical modeling, or A/B testing
- Written communication and presentation skills
- Fluency in English
Benefits
- Yearly $1,200 coworking-meetup stipend
- Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents
- Retirement contributions
- Six months of fully paid parental leave
- Subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
