Senior Data Scientist

Sardine; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity compensation

MacBook Pro provisioning

Job summary

Sardine is seeking a data-driven professional to measure, understand, and improve risk strategies. You will design and deploy data-driven solutions with real-world impact, working with clients to address fraud challenges and prototype models that scale to production. You will build dashboards and collaborate across teams to drive decisions and outcomes.

This hands-on, high-impact role sits at the intersection of data science, client-facing problem solving, and real-time risk management.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data science, quantitative modeling, or a data-focused role with high impact in fraud or risk contexts.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python/R and SQL is essential, Spark is a nice to have.
• Expertise in BI tools such as Tableau, Sigma, or Metabase.
• Proven ability to structure and analyze complex data and communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sharp critical thinking and creative problem-solving with a bias toward action.

Responsibilities

• Champion a data-first approach across internal teams and client engagements.
• Build and deploy machine learning models to prevent fraud across fintech use cases.
• Develop and track metrics to measure performance of risk products and risk management strategies.
• Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover insights for fraud reduction and higher client approvals.
• Work directly with clients to translate data insights into actionable recommendations.
• Create and automate self-serve dashboards leveraging BI tools.
• Collaborate with engineering to scale models into production and optimize performance.

Skills

Data science

Quantitative modeling

Python

R

SQL

Spark

BI tools

Tools

Spark

Tableau

Sigma

Metabase

Job description

Who We Are

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

Our Culture

• We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere
• We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
• We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

Location

• Remote - USA or Canada
• From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!

We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. So you can find your productive zone and work from there.

About The Role

We're looking for a data-driven professional to help us measure, understand, and improve the performance of our risk strategies --- and to stay ahead of evolving fraud threats by designing and deploying data-driven solutions with real-world impact. You'll work directly with clients to understand their unique fraud challenges, rapidly prototype proof-of-concept models, and build scalable, production-ready solutions using machine learning and graph analytics. You'll also analyze complex datasets, design metrics, build dashboards, and collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business to drive decision-making and optimize outcomes.

This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of data science, client‑facing problem solving, and real‑time risk.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Champion a data‑first approach across internal teams and client engagements, promoting clarity and impact
• Build and deploy machine learning models to prevent fraud across diverse fintech use cases, from proof‑of‑concept through to production
• Develop and track metrics to measure and monitor the performance of our risk products and the effectiveness of risk management strategies
• Conduct in‑depth analyses to uncover insights contributing to fraud reduction and higher approval rates for our clients
• Work directly with clients to understand their fraud challenges and translate complex data insights into clear, actionable recommendations
• Use data and models to support the development of risk mitigation strategies and interventions while preserving and improving the user experience
• Create and automate self‑serve dashboards leveraging BI tools
• Collaborate with engineering to scale models into production, optimize performance, and support data instrumentation
• Partner with cross‑functional teams (Business, Product, and Engineering) to translate business requirements into data‑driven solutions

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of experience in data science, quantitative modeling, or a data‑focused role (product analytics, business analytics) with demonstrated high impact in fraud or risk contexts
• Strong hands‑on experience with Python/R and SQL is essential, with Spark being a nice to have
• Expertise in BI tools such as Tableau, Sigma, or Metabase
• Proven ability to structure and analyze complex data using techniques like EDA and cohort analysis, and communicate findings effectively to both technical and non‑technical audiences, including clients
• Sharp critical thinking and creative problem‑solving skills with a bias toward action
• Proficiency in defining, tracking, and communicating performance metrics

Benefits We Offer

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre‑vested
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
• Flexible paid time off and Year‑end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One‑time stipend to set up a home office --- desk, chair, screen, etc.
• Monthly meal stipend
• Monthly social meet‑up stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual Learning stipend

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