Data Scientist
On-siteBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Define and drive analytical strategy across Trust & Risk domains, translating broad organizational objectives into measurable priorities and workstreams. Establish standardized KPIs and quantitative frameworks for customer trust, transaction risk, and decision quality to ensure consistent measurement across teams. Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities by connecting insights across risk vectors, guiding teams to reduce transaction losses and improve customer experience. Partner with senior leaders in Product, Engineering, Policy, and Finance to shape roadmaps, manage dependencies, and influence cross-functional decisions on complex trade-offs. Provide thought leadership to raise analytical rigor, mentoring other data scientists and improving problem framing throughout the organization.
Required Qualifications
- BA/BS degree
- 8 - 12 years of relevant experience
- Masters/PhD with 6+ years of relevant experience
- experience across areas such as Quantitative Research, Analytics, Data Science, or related disciplines
- Demonstrated ability to move from complex data and ambiguous business problems to clear strategies, priorities, and actionable recommendations with significant organizational impact
- Strong proficiency in analytical and quantitative methods
- programming (Python/R)
- data querying (SQL)
- ability to assess and guide sophisticated analytical approaches
- Exceptional ability to structure highly ambiguous, cross-functional problems and create analytical frameworks where established approaches may not exist
- Proven ability to lead multiple complex analytical workstreams simultaneously
- establish priorities
- manage dependencies
- drive sustained business outcomes
- Strong ability to evaluate trade-offs across customer experience, risk, operational complexity, and financial impact
- determine where the organization should focus
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex insights simply
- challenge assumptions constructively
- influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders
- Proven ability to build alignment across organizations with different objectives
- drive decisions without relying on direct authority
- Experience mentoring or guiding other analysts and data scientists
- raising the quality of analytical thinking and execution across teams
- Flexible and capable of working remotely across multiple time zones
- Regular availability is required for meetings between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM (PDT)
Desired Qualifications
- Significant experience in marketplace Trust, Risk, fraud, transaction risk, or related domains
- Experience developing enterprise-scale measurement or decision frameworks for loss, decision quality, false positives, risk exposure, or return on investment
- Experience managing or influencing analytical portfolios spanning multiple business areas or risk vectors
- Ability to connect detailed analytical findings to broader marketplace and business strategy
- Experience partnering directly with senior executives on high-impact strategic decisions
- Experience in a leading technology company
- Background in e-commerce products, marketplaces, payments, shipping, or financial risk
- Experience with Natural Language Processing, machine learning, or LLM/GenAI
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