Senior Data Scientist, Adyen
Experimentation Platform
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience as a data scientist, including 2+ years working on an experimentation platform (or similar)
- You have a Master’s or Ph.D. in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field
- You have a strong theoretical understanding of advanced frequentist and Bayesian hypothesis testing (e.g. sequential testing, e-processes, etc) as well as causal inference techniques and a proven track record of implementing such methods at scale
- You have experience designing and analysing controlled experiments in an applied setting to provide tangible business outcomes
- You have experience leveraging a big data framework to create the pipelines needed to gather experiment data
- You have a strong understanding of software engineering practices as well as data engineering principles
- You have strong familiarity with the standard data science toolkit, such as (py)spark, Pandas, SciPy, numpy, and Airflow
- You have an experimental mindset with a launch fast and iterate mentality
- You have proven experience in leading projects from ideation to deployment. You have experience working with a wide range of stakeholders and can clearly communicate complex outcomes over a wide range of audiences
What the job involves
- Adyen is looking for a senior data scientist with deep expertise in statistical hypothesis testing, experimental design, and quantitative research methods to join the Experimentation Platform team in Amsterdam
- We want to significantly increase the breadth of Experimentation at Adyen and that requires cutting-edge statistics
- You will help to research and implement innovative hypothesis testing approaches that drive experimentation at industry-leading scale
- You will also work with a diverse set of users, advocating and mentoring on best practices in experimental design, interpretation of results, and evidence-based decision-making
- Research and implement industry-leading statistical methods to provide robust statistical signals across multiple business domains and contexts, optimising for time-to-signal and experiment quality
- Develop and apply a deep knowledge of Adyen’s specific domain context in order to prioritise statistical methodologies and approaches that maximise business value
- Stay up-to-date with the latest research and developments in statistical hypothesis testing
- Collaborate closely with your multi-disciplinary team of backend/frontend/data engineers to help scope and define requirements for new platform features, ensuring statistical methods are integrated appropriately
- Collaborate with data scientists across Adyen to identify opportunities for the novel application of statistical and data science techniques to challenging problems
- Work closely with platform users to provide guidance and enable them for success; promoting experiment-driven culture and product development practices
Application process
- Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days
- Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7 billion, it raised over €1 billion and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14 billion. And its valuation has continued to climb in the years since.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping interested businesses to choose and then implement online payments - without the usual hoops to step through. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$58.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327.3m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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