Data Scientist

Surya Systems, Inc; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Data Scientist to tackle complex challenges in the Trust & Safety domain. This role involves leveraging data engineering, science, and analytics to build a platform that mitigates fraud across a widely recognized digital service. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence product development, and drive data-driven decisions. If you're passionate about using data to tell compelling stories and have a knack for statistical analysis, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dynamic team that values insights and creativity in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analytics with a focus on Trust & Safety.
• Expert in SQL and at least one programming language for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Build business insights platform to detect potential fraud behavior.
• Partner cross-functionally to implement and measure models.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Causal Inference

Data Analysis

Statistical Modeling

Tools

Airflow

Job description

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Title: Data Scientist

Location : SFO, CA (Remote)

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About you

• You are passionate about solving complex problems within the Trust & Safety domain with data & insights; adding a new perspective to existing solutions and making business decisions based on careful and thoughtful analysis

• You are highly proficient in building and analyzing analytical frameworks, statistical models and experimentation methods to establish and communicate causal relationships

• You are a storyteller who uses complex data and insights to frame narratives to bring others along the journey

• Working knowledge of agile ceremonies and you excel at collaboration, providing concrete guidance and constructive feedback to peer analysts and cross-functional partners across the business to help improve the work

• You are able to execute projects with great complexity and a longer time horizon than is typical on most product teams.

• You can apply a sustained level of commitment and attention to your work, as well as thorough, thoughtful, and rigorous documentation to multi-week and often multi-month projects

In this role you’ll get to

• Use a combination of data engineering, science and analytics based skills to build the business insights platform to detect and support the mitigation of potential fraud behavior across the Airbnb platform

• Perform data modeling of the various entities involved in the Trust creation and defense including hosts, guests, agents, and others using tools & frameworks for optimizing community end-to-end journey by minimizing undesired frictions while introducing proactive product defenses on our platform

• Defining and evaluating key metrics in an unstructured problem space. Developing and communicating a robust understanding of what moves these metrics and why Investigating challenging questions around the user

• experience to understand the voice of our users at scale

• Partnering cross-functionally with product, engineering, legal, design and operations, as well as with other data science teams, to implement and measure models that drive product development

• Influence data-driven decisions across business verticals in day-to-day via business reviews, scorecards, self-serve portal, OKRs and planning among others

• Influence experimentation & measurement strategies; conduct power analyses, define exit criteria, and use statistical models to improve inference. Your expertise in causal inference as well as passion for the subject matter will help you address this unstructured space

We are looking for people who have

• Experience in business analytics with an emphasis on Trust & safety product and operations scalability; and on developing business facing metrics and solving future business decisions. Have experience on a trust and safety team and/or have worked closely with policy, content moderation, or security teams

• Expert skills in SQL and expert in at least one programming language for data analysis (Python or R)

• Experience with non-experimental causal inference methods, experimentation and machine learning techniques, ideally in a multi-sided platform setting

• Experience in schema design and high-dimensional data modeling (ETL framework like Airflow)

• Demonstrated ability to create and drive product roadmaps for the business, then seamlessly execute against them

• Proven ability to tailor your recommended solutions to business problems to a cross functional team, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with cross functional partners of varying technical levels

• Ability to work under conditions of ambiguity in a fast-growth, sometimes uncertain and complex environment - comfortable acting with minimal planning, direction, and supervision. You can identify issues both within and outside of your immediate scope, and propose solutions.

• Absolute ability to maintain confidentiality and objectivity

Thanks & Regards...

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Software Development

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