Short Description
Feedzai is looking for Director of Data Science who will effectively understand business objectives and communicating data science insights and progress to a non-technical audience.Job Description
- Provide guidance to our Product and Research teams based on insights and models developed for individual clients.
- Own the data science relationship with the client for up to 2 client projects.
- Effectively understand business objectives and communicating data science insights and progress to a non-technical audience.
- Implement Feedzai's machine learning algorithm into our client's data feeds.
- Work with the client to explore their data and better understand it.
- Contribute to the team knowledge by keeping up with the state-of-the-art in machine learning applied to our domains.
- Build out and manage the new employee experience on this team.
- Conduct the performance management process for this team.
- You have a Ph.D., in CS, Physics, Engineering, Stats, or similar technical discipline.
- You have 4+ years of Data Science experience.
- You have strong experience with a range of statistical and machine learning techniques, ideally via open source libraries and proprietary models.
- You have experience managing teams.
- You have experience with extracting insights from raw data and transforming into useful features.
- You can code proficiently in R/Python and an object-oriented language.
- You have experience with big data platforms such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Hive, and Pig.
- You are comfortable presenting to non-technical customers.
- Experience with building models for fraudulent financial transactions is highly valued.
- Up to 35% travel within the USA.
- While at the client location Feedzai provides corporate housing and meal reimbursement.
Director of Data Science