Surya Systems, Inc ยท 5 days ago
Senior Data Scientist (Local to CA)
United States
Contract
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expSurya Systems, Inc is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop a business insights platform aimed at detecting and mitigating potential fraud behavior on the Airbnb platform. The role involves data modeling, defining key metrics, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven decisions and improve product development.
ConsultingInformation TechnologySoftware
Hiring Manager
G Naveen Kumar
Responsibilities
Use a combination of data engineering, science and analytics based skills to build the business insights platform to detect and support the mitigation of potential fraud behavior across the Airbnb platform
Perform data modeling of the various entities involved in the Trust creation and defense including hosts, guests, agents, and others using tools & frameworks for optimizing community end-to-end journey by minimizing undesired frictions while introducing proactive product defenses on our platform
Defining and evaluating key metrics in an unstructured problem space. Developing and communicating a robust understanding of what moves these metrics and why Investigating challenging questions around the user
Experience to understand the voice of our users at scale
Partnering cross-functionally with product, engineering, legal, design and operations, as well as with other data science teams, to implement and measure models that drive product development
Influence data-driven decisions across business verticals in day-to-day via business reviews, scorecards, self-serve portal, OKRs and planning among others
Influence experimentation & measurement strategies; conduct power analyses, define exit criteria, and use statistical models to improve inference. Your expertise in causal inference as well as passion for the subject matter will help you address this unstructured space
Qualification
Required
A minimum of 5+ years of industry experience in business analytics with an emphasis on Trust & safety product and operations scalability; and on developing business facing metrics and solving future business decisions
Have experience on a trust and safety team and/or have worked closely with policy, content moderation, or security teams
Expert skills in SQL and expert in at least one programming language for data analysis (Python or R)
Experience with non-experimental causal inference methods, experimentation and machine learning techniques, ideally in a multi-sided platform setting
Experience in schema design and high-dimensional data modeling (ETL framework like Airflow)
Demonstrated ability to create and drive product roadmaps for the business, then seamlessly execute against them
Proven ability to tailor your recommended solutions to business problems to a cross functional team, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with cross functional partners of varying technical levels
Ability to work under conditions of ambiguity in a fast-growth, sometimes uncertain and complex environment - comfortable acting with minimal planning, direction, and supervision
You can identify issues both within and outside of your immediate scope, and propose solutions
Absolute ability to maintain confidentiality and objectivity
Company
Surya Systems, Inc
Surya Systems Inc. is a strategic technology partner to enterprises seeking to build resilient, data-driven, and innovation-led organizations.
201-500 employees
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