Senior Data Scientist

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The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness.

Job Description Summary:

At PayPal, we continue to push the boundary of what technology can help people around the world accomplish. For that, we are seeking exceptional world-class problem solvers with a passion for data insights and a relentless execution focus. The Global Analytics and Data Science team is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in Checkout Analytics.

Job Description:
About You

We are seeking an exceptional data science leader with a passion for data insights and relentless focus on execution:

• You are curious and inquisitive: love digging into data and uncovering insights.
• You are hyper-analytical and intellectually honest, truly believing in data-driven decisions and communicating your ideas through storytelling.
• You are a highly motivated, result-oriented self-starter, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and can deliver successful results with minimal guidance.
• You are a player-coach, and are not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and jumping into details.

Your day to day:

• Challenge the status quo, and drive data backed decision making.
• Partner closely with product leaders to understand new product offerings being built and recommend the right metrics to measure the performance of those features.
• Identify key metrics, conduct rigorous explorative data analysis, create executive facing dashboards and build business cases that drive decision making and business prioritization.
• Analyze consumer product performance and health, triage issues, and provide recommendation on the best course solution and optimization.
• Synthesizing large volumes of data with attention to granular details and present findings and recommendations to senior-level stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering and data engineering to enable feature tracking, resolve complex data and tracking issues, and build necessary data pipelines.
• Define and cultivate best practices in analytics instrumentation and experimentation.
• Support multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Mentor junior analysts on complex analyses.

What do you need to bring:

• At least 5 years of experience analyzing large, multi-dimensional data sets and synthesizing insights into actionable solutions.
• B.S. in a quantitative field, advanced degrees preferred.
• Fluent in SQL and at least one scripting language such as Python or R, comfortable working with large, complex, and potentially messy datasets.
• Understanding of statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, statistical inference, regression) and experience designing and evaluating complex experiments.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, to influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Prior work experience in a product analytics space would be highly valued.

A passion for problem-solving and comfort with ambiguity.

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience. The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $84,500 to $204,600.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging.

REQ ID R0120048

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development, Financial Services, and Technology, Information and Internet

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