[Remote] Staff Data Scientist - Risk
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Shakepay is on a mission to transform financial services for Canadians through innovative solutions in cryptocurrency. The Staff Data Scientist will play a key role in defining and managing risk metrics, collaborating with various teams to enhance risk systems and decision frameworks.
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
Skills
- 8+ 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
- Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians
Benefits
- Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation
- Yearly salary assessments
- Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
- Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
- A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
- 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
- Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other
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