Data Scientist 1

Job Description

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. We re a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. We re guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Collectively, these values inspire us to work together as One Team with our customers at the center of everything we do, and to take care of ourselves, each other, and the communities in which we live and work. We challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. Join us as we enable the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of millions of people around the world.A successful Data Scientist will build upon the products and provide subject matter expertise to ensure that they can not only design, implement and deploy a successful fraud solution, including machine learning models and data analysis, as well as be able explain and design the solution together with the clients business team, leading to happy customers.PayPal s Risk as a Service Data Scientists are comprehensive analytical experts who collaborate within a team of technical and business industry experts, to ensure that their customers are successful in their deployments in catching fraud and malicious activities. They continually improve and apply their technical knowledge and analytical skills across the product suite at every level of the customer
• Design, develop and implement predictive models using advanced data mining and ML techniques
• Work with large data volume to extract and manipulate the right info for better prediction of fraud patterns
• Work closely with multiple national and international customers to consult and strategize on the approach in tackling fraud and ensure that RaaS is solving their fraud problem
• Be a strong subject matter expert of PayPal s RaaS platforms, as well as developing risk solutions in specific fields (banking, finance, ecommerce, etc).
• Understand the main customer issues around fraud and compliance.
• Understand the nature of the data that is provided and work with the customer to create and finalize a data schema that meets their current and future needs.
• Perform in-depth analysis on data sets to detect anomalies and to understand the key parameters that may be indicative of fraud.
• Analyze and transform data using RaaS s platforms to identify fraud patterns and optimize the systems to flag these patterns.
• Work with a dedicated international data science and engineering team, using a state-of-the-art technology stack, to design and implement data driven solutions that operate at scale and in real-time.
• Make business recommendations to the executive and cross-functional teams with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders.
• Lead and participate in special initiatives: innovate and implement large-scale quality improvements to processes and/or systems by conducting data analysis and making recommendations, troubleshooting technical issues, and refining processes.
• Communicate insights and findings back to the team to contribute to overall teams success.
• Train the customer on how to understand fraud trends and the use of PayPal RaaS s product.
• Improve the products with innovative ideas driven by customer feedback; work with the product development team to incorporate the feedback into the platforms
For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. 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.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 hidden_email.As part of PayPal s commitment to employees health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.Rhidden_mobile ,

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