Job Description :

Paypal is looking for a highly motivated teammate ready to play a key role as an Associate Data Scientist.

About Role :

Associate Data Scientist must

• Work with business partners and stake holders to understand the business, formulate the problems, come up with the solutions and communicate them back effectively to non-technical audience.
• Lead complex, multifunctional data science projects.
• Design, develop and implement real-time, highly complex advance machine learning models to solve credit business problems (demand generation, marketing, fraud, credit, account management and collections)
• Work with large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as Python, R, H2O, Hadoop and SQL
• Collaborate with engineers to implement models on one of the best data platforms in the industry.
• Analyze data to identify trends, perform root cause analysis and test hypotheses.
• Communicate complex concepts and the results of the models and analyses to technical and non-technical audience.
• Mentor and grow junior data scientists

Qualification Needed :

• Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in science or engineering field with 1+ years of relevant experience
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Proven track record of building and implementing machine learning solutions
• Experience in leading cross-functional, highly complex Data Science projects
• Data Mining experience in Python, R, H2O, and/or SAS. Familiar with various Machine Learning algorithms and Statistical methods
• Have a passion for working on big data and professional experience in data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data manipulation.
• Ability to deal with a large amounts of data and fluency with SQL or SQL-like tools. 
• Financial services or eCommerce experience a big plus

About Us :

• Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy.
• Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 305 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person.
• Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid.