Principal Data Scientist

About GeoComply
We’re GeoComply! We're a market-leading, hyper-growth technology provider with teams across five countries and three continents with a global customer base. And we have no plans to slow down.
Achieving 650% growth in annual revenue over the past three years and dubbed a tech “Unicorn,” we’re revolutionizing how people and businesses use the internet to instill confidence in every online interaction. Trusted by leading brands and regulators for the past ten years, our geolocation solutions are installed on over 400 million devices and analyze over 10 billion transactions a year.
At the heart of it all is the people - we are deeply committed to creating and sustaining a world-class experience for our employees and partners, and providing for the needs of our customers.
The Role
Are you looking for a job in a hyper-growth company with an AI focus?
Do you want to apply expertise to research and development to reach a new level of AI-based Anti-Fraud systems?
If yes, the Principal Data Scientist is the role for you!
GeoCompy’s Data Science team focuses on improving Anti-fraud system, turning business requirements into DS/ML solutions and researching best-in-class technologies. As the Principal Data Scientist, you will supervise and contribute to the research and development roadmap of the group. You will turn business requirements into DS/ML solutions. You must have experience in setting the standard for our research process, guide and mentor researchers, iterative development cycles, bring ML idea from research to production and have a great passion for working in fast-paced development process environments. The ideal candidate for this role is a person with a strong Data Science background, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to work in a dynamic environment.
Salary range: 208-260K

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of business needs and leverage that knowledge to deliver best-in-class solutions for the Data Science team;
• Build and own a research roadmap for the Data Science team in collaboration with the Product Development group;
• Build and improve cross-functional baseline; work closely with Data Science, ML Engineering, Data Engineering and DevOps teams to optimize the strategy of cross-work;
• Embrace a business and technical mindset to develop solutions at scale;
• Review and provide guidance on existing research projects;
• Use strong technical expertise to rapidly formalize, prioritize and move forward new initiatives;
• Standardize and supervise the research process ;
• Provide senior-level guidance for junior researchers;
• Work on improvement of the codebase. Create a standard and define the best coding practice.

Who You Are

• You have 10+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics;
• You have 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership position; Exceptional leadership and management skills with experience building and managing high-performing teams;
• You have 3+ years of experience in ML/DS Anti-fraud domains (or adjacent domains);
• You have excellent knowledge of machine learning approaches (e.g., clustering algorithms, random forest, neural networks, support vector machines);
• Have strong programming skills in Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Spark); 
• You’re experienced with main ML frameworks (scikit-learn, XGBoost) and experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.);
• You have experience in the development and  deployment of  predictive models or ML systems in a cloud environment (i.e AWS:SageMaker, ECS, S3, GCP);
• You have practical experience with Big Data tools;
• You’re experienced in liaising with technical teams, with the ability to communicate and recommend solutions to fit the customer’s technical requirements.
• High-level experience in conducting research and ability to explain key findings to varied audiences.
• You are a solutions-focused problem solver who always sees a path forward to success.
• You are an exceptional communicator and can build relationships with anyone you work with.
• You are organized and have fantastic attention to detail, aiming higher and higher each day.
• You always act with integrity and operate with strong moral principles.
• You have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment to support a rapidly growing technology company with multiple moving parts.

Bonus Points

• You have experience working with an international team.

Why GeoComply?
Joining the GeoComply team means you’ll be part of an award-winning company to work, learn and grow. We are fast-paced, high-impact, and have a can-do team culture.
To be successful in our organization, you need an eager attitude, prof