Senior Data Scientist, Block
Payment Risk
$146-257.6k
Pay dependent on location. Plus Employee Stock Purchase Program
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$146-257.6k
Pay dependent on location. Plus Employee Stock Purchase Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- A BS/BA in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative/technical field
- 8+ years of relevant experience (or masters and 6+ years)
- Experience with SQL, Python, and Looker
- Strong statistics knowledge, especially in experimentation, hypothesis testing, and causal inference
- Experience with machine learning model development
- Experience driving data-driven solutions and project-managing their implementation
- Experience answering unstructured questions and managing projects and tasks to a conclusion
- A passion for Square's mission
- Experience in risk, trust and safety, payments, or spam prevention
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Risk Data Science and Analytics Team. You will improve our risk controls through advanced statistical and analytical techniques
- You will also manage core operational metrics, advise senior stakeholders on Risk controls, and build processes to root out high-risk activity across the Square platform of products
- The Risk Data Scientist will identify and prevent fraud on our most valuable sellers. You will lead experiments at scale to protect our diverse ecosystem of sellers from sophisticated bad actors
- You will have a chance to own the key metrics, develop data and ETL pipelines. You will also directly impact our key success metrics via building machine learning solutions and risk detection rule development and deployment
- Furthermore, you will partner with product, engineering, operations, policies, and sales to influence Square’s global Buyer Fraud road map and procedures
- Diagnose problems and develop compelling, data-driven recommendations
- Design and implement experiments on features and changes within the Risk domain
- Develop and maintain multiple data pipelines and ETLs
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and operation teams to design solutions to business problems, influence product roadmaps, and solution new products/processes
- Experiment with machine learning tools to develop data-driven solutions
- Promote creative risk solutions through third-party evaluation and integration with a focus on improving the seller experience
- Develop executive presentations for Square’s leadership
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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