Senior Data Scientist - Identity

Company Description:

At Cash App, which originated as an innovative idea at Block in 2013, we embarked on a mission to simplify peer-to-peer payments. Today, Cash App has evolved into a comprehensive financial ecosystem, offering diverse financial products such as Afterpay/Clearpay. Our vision is to redefine how the world interacts with money—making it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible for our 47 million active monthly users.

With thousands of employees operating globally, both in-office and remotely, Cash App fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration, and impact. We've embraced a distributed team model from the start, enabling us to offer remote opportunities in many regions where we operate. Regardless of location, we ensure our employees remain creative, productive, and satisfied.

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Job Description:

Our Data Science team at Cash App is pivotal in extracting valuable insights from our unique datasets and translating those insights into actionable strategies that enhance our customer's experience. As a Senior Data Scientist within the Identity workstream of our Trust organization, you will collaborate closely with product management and cross-functional teams to provide meaningful insights into our identity systems.

Since our identity systems are crucial for our expansion and user access, a meticulous attention to detail and a knack for data storytelling are vital. Your role will include:

• Partnering closely with Cash App's Trust organization, including product, operations, engineering, legal, compliance, and machine learning teams.
• Generating timely and accurate reports from complex datasets using SQL and scripting languages to deliver critical insights.
• Creating clear data visualizations and dashboards to convey customer behavior and product initiatives effectively.
• Building, monitoring, and reporting on metrics that drive strategy and facilitate key business decisions.
• Exhibiting urgency, attention to detail, and sound business judgment.
• Interpreting A/B experiments to integrate changes into key performance indicators.
• Writing code to process, cleanse, and combine data sources uniquely, often resulting in curated ETL datasets.
• Communicating your findings regularly with team leads and cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications:

You possess:

• Previous exposure or interest in leadership reporting, anomaly detection, audit, or regulatory data science.
• A bachelor’s degree in statistics, data science, or a related STEM field with over 5 years of relevant experience, OR a graduate degree in a similar field with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Advanced proficiency with SQL and data visualization tools like Tableau or Looker.
• Experience with programming languages like Python or R for data analysis.
• In-depth knowledge of cohort and funnel analyses, and strong understanding of statistical concepts such as selection bias, probability distributions, and conditional probabilities.

Technologies we use and teach:

• SQL, Snowflake
• Python (Pandas, Numpy)
• Tableau, Airflow, Looker, Mode, Prefect

Additional Information:

Block employs a market-based approach to pay, with varying pay scales depending on your location. The starting salary for the successful candidate will be based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be adjusted in the future.

Pay zones across U.S. locations:

• Zone A: USD $142,000 - USD $213,000
• Zone B: USD $134,900 - USD $202,300
• Zone C: USD $127,800 - USD $191,600
• Zone D: USD $120,700 - USD $181,100

For more details about your location’s zone designation, please refer to the provided link.

Company Name: Block

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist - Identity