Data Scientist

**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 Description Summary: This job will develop and implement data science models and algorithms to support business needs. You will work with stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions. Your role involves ensuring data quality, optimizing data processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

**Job Description**:
**Essential Responsibilities**:

- Develop and implement data science models and algorithms.
- Analyze and interpret complex data sets.
- Ensure data quality and integrity.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements.
- Optimize data processes for efficiency and performance.
- Perform advanced statistical analysis and reporting.

**Expected Qualifications**:

- Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Additional_Responsibilities_And_Preferred_Qualifications:

- Solid technical / data-mining skills and ability to work with large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using common tools such as SQL, SAS, Hadoop, or other programming/scripting languages (Python, R, etc.) to translate data into business decisions/results
- Be data-driven and outcome-focused
- Must have good business judgment with demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically
- Must be an intuitive, organized analytical thinker, with the ability to perform detailed analysis
- Takes personal ownership; Self-starter; Ability to drive projects with mínimal guidance and focus on high impact work
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering or related field with 2-3 years’ experience, or Master’s degree with 1-2 years’ experience in risk management, data science and/or loss forecasting, in the payments space or banking/finance services industry would be particularly desirable.
- Proficiency using SQL and querying relational databases
- Experience in at least one statistical programming language (SAS, R, Python)
- Familiarity with reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI or Qlik) is highly desired.
- Experience in predictive modelling techniques such as Regression, Classification, Time series forecasting, NLP, etc.
- Experience with structuring analyses to solve business problems using data and analytics tools and techniques

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

**Our Benefits**:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer ben