Senior Data Scientist
PayPal Inc.


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Who we are

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal's 392 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

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Job Description Summary:
We are looking for an experience data scientist to join our team to focus on product analytics of our peer-to-peer payments product. Peer-to-peer payments product is one of the biggest revenue and growth drivers at PayPal, and has been growing at a fast pace. We are looking for someone to help shape tomorrow at PayPal P2P leveraging the power of data.

Job Description:

You will:
  • Identify new revenue and user growth opportunities through deep dive analyses leveraging our rich datasets of user behavioral and transactional data
  • Help P2P team to understand the impact of feature changes and new product launches through experimentation
  • Translate ambiguous, unstructured business problems into actionable data-driven analyses
  • Size potential impact of new ideas and help prioritizing product roadmaps based on impact
  • Bring clarity to the performance of our key metrics and flows through well designed dashboards and reports
  • Act as thought partner to our product team and lead cross-functional projects (partner teams include product, engineering, design, user research, finance, machine learning, marketing, compliance, risk, customer service/operations)
  • Act as mentor to junior team members

You have:
  • B.S. in a quantitative field (math, statistics, computer science, or similar STEM fields), advanced degrees a plus
  • 2+ year of data science, analytics, or consulting experience
  • Experience influencing product strategy through analyses and data-centric presentations
  • Understanding of statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, statistical inference, regression), experience designing and evaluating complex experiments a plus
  • Experience with at least one querying language (e.g. SQL) and one scripting language (e.g. Python), comfortable with working with large, complex, and potentially messy datasets
  • Strong interpersonal and project management skills, ability to lead cross-functionally
  • Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau a plus, experience with building machine learning models a plus

Subsidiary:
PayPal

Travel Percent:
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Primary Location:
San Jose, California, United States of America

Additional Locations:

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.


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