Manager, Data Science 3

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

PayPal's GFP Fraud Risk team is responsible for partnering with global business units to manage a variety of risk of various types, including identity fraud, account takeover, stolen financial fraud, seller fraud, and credit issues. This is an exciting department that plays an important role in contributing PayPal's bottom line financial savings, ensuring safe and secure global business growth, and delivering the best customer experience.
This open opportunity is within the Risk Business Intelligence (BI) team. The BI team addresses key strategic and critical business initiatives. It partners with leaders to develop business cases for potential investments. The team also provides insights and recommendations to ensure smooth execution with cross-functional partners.

Job Description:

Your day to day –

• High proficiency in technical / data-mining skills and working knowledge of dealing with large volumes of data using tools such as SQL, Python in GCP BigQuery/Hadoop environment.
• Ability to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in large datasets and strong critical thinking to derive actionable insights from data.
• Expertise to perform storytelling with data and insights, drive key business decision-making
• Expertise in A/B testing, hypothesis testing, and statistical significance in supporting initiative and program focus.
• Experience with business segmentation, customer experience and churn analytics, business growth evaluation.
• Design, build and maintain dashboards and data visualization through tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Looker.
• Expertise in predictive modelling, regression, and time-series analysis
• Ability to translated technical findings into business recommendations and working with business partners to implement.
• Attention to details and ensuring work outcome accuracy and reliability

What do you need to bring-

• Master’s degree in related field and 10+ years related professional work experience (Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, Operations Research, etc.)
• 5+ year of experience as people manager
• Understanding of Fraud/Credit risk in the financial industry, experience with Payment risk preferred
• Good time and program management, can handle multiple projects or action items at the same time with challenging deadlines.
• Well-developed research and analytical skills with good problem solving and lateral thinking ability
• Working knowledge of SQL, Python, or other programming languages. Experience with GCP Big Query,