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Principal Data Scientist, Payments

Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

$200,850-$271,148 / year

full-timeseniorPayments / Fintech

Tech Stack

Description

You will own payments intelligence end-to-end, designing measurement frameworks and building predictive models to improve payment success rates and risk scoring. Partner with engineering and product teams to drive experimentation and influence roadmap decisions with data-backed recommendations.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in Data Science at a product-focused software company with payments exposure
  • Deep payments domain knowledge: ACH, card networks, bank integrations, settlement flows
  • Strong SQL and Python skills for large-scale transactional datasets
  • Proven experimentation and causal inference expertise in payment contexts
  • AI-native mindset: has built data products and automated workflows with AI

Responsibilities

  • Own payments intelligence end-to-end: design measurement frameworks for payment success rates, failure root causes, retry strategies, settlement timing
  • Partner with payments engineering to understand infrastructure constraints and influence roadmap prioritization
  • Drive experimentation at scale: design and analyze A/B tests and quasi-experiments across payment flows
  • Build predictive models for payment failure prediction, risk scoring, anomaly detection, and productionize them with ML engineers
  • Build AI-native data products and automated workflows with AI as core component
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