Staff Data Scientist - Risk
Remote · Canada or CA
Job Summary
Staff Data Scientist - Risk at Shakepay focusing on risk measurement and decisioning; collaborate with Risk, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations to define risk metrics and decision frameworks; analyze fraud, scam, and abuse patterns across crypto and fiat products; build and maintain reporting on fraud loss, false positives, customer friction, and control performance; design data, instrumentation, and decisioning systems powering risk operations; apply statistical methods and selective ML to improve decision quality and operational efficiency; lead investigations into incidents and emerging threats; communicate insights to senior stakeholders; drive data standards and analytical practices within Risk; opportunities to influence risk roadmap and long-term strategy.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, Decision Science or in a similar analytical role
- Experience with fraud, risk, trust and safety, AML, or compliance analytics
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
- Experience with ML techniques in regression, classification, experiment design, causal inference, or decision analysis
- Experience with modern cloud data warehouses and tooling (e.g., Snowflake, dbt)
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to translate analyses into business recommendations
- Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
- Interest in Bitcoin/fintech/regulated industries
- Fluency in English
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