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Data Scientist - Dublin

PayPal, Inc.Dublin, Ireland

21 days ago

Job description

Responsibilities

In your day to day, you will :

Take full responsibility for a merchant portfolio's fraud and loss metrics, ensuring end-to-end management of decline and loss rates.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop fraud-prevention strategies, identify loss-savings opportunities, and optimize transaction declines without increasing customer friction.
Deliver risk analytics on frustration trends and key performance indicators, set up alerts for fraud events, and monitor real-time dashboards to detect anomalies.
Help adapt PayPal's advanced proprietary fraud-prevention toolsbining them with custom data and AI / ML techniques-to enable continued business growth.
Provide clear, data-driven requirements to Data Science and Technology teams for attribute engineering, model specifications, and platform improvements, while keeping global stakeholders informed of performance and next steps.

What You'll Bring :

2-4 years working with large-scale,plex datasets-ideally within fraud-risk, financial services, or a similarly regulated environment.

Strong ability to dpose business requirements into a structured analytic plan, execute that plan end-to-end, and derive actionable insights.

Excellent verbal and written skills, equallyfortable discussing technical details with engineers and high-level risk strategies with business leaders.

A desire to build new solutions, invent novel approaches to big, ambiguous challenges, and iterate quickly as new fraud trends emerge

Solid working knowledge of Excel, SQL, and Python or R for data wrangling, exploration, and analysis.

Expertise in exploratory data analysis and preparing clean, structured datasets for model development.

Hands-on experience applying AI / ML techniques-both supervised (regression, classification, decision trees) and unsupervised (clustering, anomaly detection)-for business decisioning.

Familiarity with model evaluation metrics (Precision, Recall, ROC-AUC) and basic statistical concepts.

Preferred Qualification :

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

Subsidiary : PayPal

Travel Percent :

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'remitted 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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit / / paypalbenefits.

Who We Are :

Click Here to learn more about our culture andmunity.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable amodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of ipatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentamodations@paypal.

Belonging at PayPal :

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, andmunities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talentmunity.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply. Job ID R0127832

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Data Scientist • Dublin, Ireland