Payments Data Scientist – Risk & Growth Analytics

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a data analytics professional to develop and execute analytics and reporting initiatives, delivering data-driven insights to strategy, operations, business, engineering, and R&D teams in the US and globally. This role focuses on payment security and growth across TikTok’s payments platform.

You will work with large datasets, perform regression and ML analyses, design KPI indexes, and communicate findings to drive revenue, risk management, and product

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressive success in roles of increasing responsibility.
• 3+ years working in data science, risk, machine learning, and A/B testing.
• 3+ years of coding experience in Python, Hive, SQL and familiarity with machine learning functions, options, forecasting models.
• 5+ years of experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau).

Responsibilities

• Work with large datasets to solve problems that could be ambiguous and nuanced using a variety of analytical and statistical approaches.
• Conduct quantitative analysis using statistical regression, machine learning, as well as hypothesis testing and present analysis and recommendations in a user friendly manner to propel business growth and customer satisfaction.
• Develop a scientific approach to measure KPI fluctuation, impact of business initiatives, and customer experience and design indexes for continuous monitoring.
• Design and implement foundational tests including backtesting for measuring the effectiveness of credit risk strategy and segmenting user profile.
• Create documentation articulating the sampling process, underlying assumptions, design of test, success metrics, and conclusion.
• Have familiarity with best practices and pragmatic approaches for addressing common issues including data quality, seasonality, insufficient training dataset, etc.
• Perform predictive analysis and support business partners with revenue and loss forecasts, budgeting, risk and incident management to proactively address foreseeable challenges.
• Conduct deep dive analysis and diagnosis to identify patterns, concentrations, correlations, root causes to provide transparency into business and product performance.
• Partner with Product, Strategy, Operations and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute strategy and decisions.
• Demonstrate understanding of common challenges facing TikTok business, key products, and the competitiveness of the marketplace.

Skills

Data science

Risk analytics

Python

SQL

Hive

A/B testing

Tableau

Tools

Tableau

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a data analytics professional to develop and execute analytics and reporting initiatives, delivering data-driven insights to strategy, operations, business, engineering, and R&D teams in the US and globally. This role focuses on payment security and growth across TikTok’s payments platform.

You will work with large datasets, perform regression and ML analyses, design KPI indexes, and communicate findings to drive revenue, risk management, and product