Director of Data Science

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

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
 
Requirements:
  • 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
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Feedzai is AI. We are coding the future of commerce with a leading platform powered by artificial intelligence and big data. Founded and developed by data scientists and aerospace engineers, Feedzai has one critical mission: make commerce safe. The worlds largest banks, payment providers and retailers use Feedzai`s machine learning technology to manage risks associated with banking and shopping, whether itâ??s in person, online or via mobile devices.