# Data Scientist, Payments

**Company**: Block, Inc.
**Location**: Bay Area, CA
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Zone A: $111,700-$167,500 USD
Zone B: $106,100-$159,100 USD
Zone C: $100,500-$150,700 USD
Zone D: $95,000-$142,400 USD
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a quantitative, AI-fluent early-career professional to fill a data science role focused on payments data across Square and Cash App.

You will partner closely with Product, Operations, Finance, and Engineering, leveraging data tools to optimize our payments platform from success rate, to cost efficiency, to risk mitigation.

Responsibilities:

- Leverage AI to create scalable data tools, agents, and automations

- Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations teams to systemize and make data-driven decisions

- Measure and optimize the cost and performance of our payments stack

- Serve as a subject-matter expert on our payments business and implementation

- Proactively identify gaps and opportunities in our processes

- Design, run, and analyze experiments

- Independently research questions and produce actionable insights

- Build ETL pipelines, dashboards, and machine learning models

- Translate open-ended business needs into practical data solutions

- Design, implement, and maintain data systems and system architecture

- Stand up, maintain, and improve cloud data infrastructure and tooling

- Operationalize data processes and systems

Requirements:

- A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field with a strong academic record

- Experience working with code at an internship

- Experience working with large datasets using code, including SQL and Python

- Experience using AI tools to accelerate development, improve data workflows, and automate processes

- Strong analytical expertise and business acumen

- Strong ability to communicate with non-technical partners

- Knowledge of systems architecture and cloud infrastructure

Benefits:

- Remote work

- Medical insurance

- Flexible time off

- Retirement savings plans

- Modern family planning

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- AI
- data analysis
- machine learning
- cloud infrastructure

### Nice to have
- payments
- banking

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