Director, Data Scientist
PayPal | San Jose,CA,USA
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Short Description

PapPal is looking for Director-Data Scientist who will develop deep business understanding, build strong partnership with customers, provide strategic leadership to enable great customer experience through innovation in data and data science.

Job Description

Responsibilities:
  • Lead a team of data scientists, technical product managers and analysts to own and deliver data and data science solutions to support business needs for Seller Risk Services. Form clear vision and lead the team towards the vision.
  • Develop deep business understanding of the domain, build strong partnership with customers, provide strategic leadership to enable great customer experience through innovation in data and data science
  • Manage roadmap. Provide guidance to teams when they develop, validate and deploy cutting-edge, industry leading data and AI solutions.
  • Communicate complex concepts and the results of the analyses in a clear and effective manner to senior leadership. Be able to influence partners and customers with technology leadership.
  • Be a thought leader and contribute to next generation risk infrastructure and applicable AI technologies for the company.

Required Qualification:
  • Advance degree (MS or PhD) in science or engineering field with 13+ years of relevant experience and 8+ years of supervisory experience.
  • Experience in building a strong team.
  • Strong problem solving skills, business acumen, and communication skills.
  • Have a passion for working on big data and professional experience in data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modeling and data manipulation.
  • Strong Unix background and programming experience in C/C++, or Java, and skills in scripting languages such as Perl or Python. Familiar with various Machine Learning algorithms and Statistical methods.
  • SQL and Hadoop / Other Big Data skills preferred.
  • Experience in fintech industry a strong plus.

Director, Data Scientist
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Who we are
Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal�¢??s 210 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.