Data Scientist

About the role

We're looking for a Data Scientist to join our team at Stripe. As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with our Product, Finance, Payments, Security, Risk, Growth and Go-to-Market teams to optimize our systems and leverage data to make strategic business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure that our users, products, and business have the models, data products, and insights needed to make decisions and grow responsibly.
• Analyze data, build machine learning and statistical models, and run experiments to drive impact.
• Influence how our products work, how our business works, and how our go-to-market motions operate.

Requirements

• PhD + 3 years, MS/MA + 6 years or BS/BA + 8 years of data science/quantitative modeling experience.
• Proficiency in SQL and a computing language such as Python or R.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in several of the following areas: machine learning, statistics, optimization, product analytics, causal inference, and/or experimentation.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience deploying models in production and adjusting model thresholds to improve performance.
• Experience designing, running, and analyzing complex experiments or leveraging causal inference designs.
• Experience with distributed tools such as Spark, Hadoop, etc.