Senior Data Scientist at Shakepay working on fraud analytics and risk decision frameworks. Partnering across teams to improve risk metrics and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
Partner with engineering to define the architecture and technical strategy for internal risk systems and tooling.
Partner with Risk, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations to define risk metrics, success criteria, and decision frameworks.
Analyze fraud, scam, and abuse patterns across crypto and fiat products.
Build and maintain reporting that tracks fraud loss, false positives, customer friction, operational efficiency, and control performance.
Help design and architect the data, instrumentation, and decisioning systems that power risk operations and fraud prevention workflows.
Evaluate and iterate on risk rules and controls using rigorous analysis.
Apply statistical methods and selective ML techniques where they materially improve decision quality, operational efficiency, or signal detection.
Conduct deep-dive investigations into incidents, trends, and emerging threats.
Communicate insights clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders
Help establish data standards, analytical methods, and decision-making practices within the Risk team
Requirements
5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, Decision Science or in a similar analytical role
Experience with fraud, risk, trust and safety, AML, or compliance analytics.
Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
Experience performing deep analytical work and ML techniques related to regression, classification, experiment design, causal inference, or decision analysis.
Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect analytical work to customer outcomes, risk outcomes, and company priorities.
Experience working with modern cloud data warehouses and tooling (i.e Snowflake, dbt, etc).
Outstanding communication skills and the ability to translate complex analysis into clear business recommendations.
Proven ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
Strong sense of ownership and ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
Experience partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders to influence decisions.
Good judgment when tailoring the analytical toolkit to the problem at hand.
Interest in Bitcoin and familiarity with fintech, payments, crypto, or other regulated industries.
Benefits
Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation
Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments
Health & wellness : Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other
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