Senior Data Scientist - Financial Platform

Join Block as a Senior Data Scientist - Financial Platform

Company Description

Founded in 2013 with a mission to simplify peer-to-peer payments, Block's Cash App has evolved into a robust financial ecosystem serving 47 million monthly active users. Cash App, which includes innovative products like Afterpay/Clearpay, revolutionizes the way people send, spend, invest, borrow, and save money. Our goal is to make money management relatable, instantly accessible, and universal.

Our team at Cash App boasts thousands of employees working globally, both in-office and remotely, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and impact. From day one, we’ve embraced a distributed team, ensuring our employees are creative, productive, and happy no matter where they are.

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Job Description

The Data Science team at Cash App uses unique datasets to derive valuable insights, turning them into actionable strategies that enhance our customer experience daily. As a Data Scientist, you'll join our Financial Platform (FinPlat) organization, collaborating closely with product management and cross-functional partners to drive meaningful change and help protect our customers and their money.

Your Responsibilities:

• Collaborate directly with the Cash App FinPlat org, operations, engineers, product, and machine learning teams.
• Analyze large datasets using SQL and scripting languages to uncover actionable insights for the product team and key stakeholders.
• Use statistical and mathematical modeling techniques to research and understand customer behavior.
• Design and analyze A/B experiments to assess the impact of product changes.
• Work with engineers to log new data sources as we develop new product features.
• Build, forecast, and report metrics to drive strategy and decision-making for key business initiatives.
• Write code to process, cleanse, and merge data sources into ETL datasets for the broader team.
• Create and share data visualizations and self-serve dashboards for stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate your findings with team leads and cross-functional stakeholders regularly.

Qualifications

You should have:

• Experience in or interest in areas like anomaly detection or regulatory data science.
• A bachelor’s degree in statistics, data science, or a similar STEM field with 7+ years of relevant experience, OR a graduate degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker).
• Experience with scripting and data analysis programming languages, such as Python or R.
• Deep understanding of cohort and funnel analyses, statistical concepts like selection bias, probability distributions, and conditional probabilities.

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, with variations based on geographic location. U.S. locations are categorized into zones based on a cost of labor index, and pay rates are determined by job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may change in the future.

• Zone A: USD $171,800 - USD $257,600
• Zone B: USD $163,200 - USD $244,800
• Zone C: USD $154,600 - USD $232,000
• Zone D: USD $146,000 - USD $219,000

Find your location’s zone designation in the provided information. Join Block as a Senior Data Scientist and be a part of our innovative journey.

Company Name: Block

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist - Financial Platform