TikTok · 13 hours ago
Data Scientist, Payment Analytics - USDS
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$137K/yr - $228K/yr
3+ years expTikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Data Scientist in the Payment Analytics team to develop and execute analytics and reporting initiatives. This role focuses on delivering data-driven insights to enhance payment security and support business growth through quantitative analysis and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
Work with large datasets to solve problems that could be ambiguous and nuanced using a variety of analytical and statistical approaches
Conduct quantitative analysis using statistical regression, machine learning, as well as hypothesis testing and present analysis and recommendations in a user friendly manner to propel business growth and customer satisfaction
Develop a scientific approach to measure KPI fluctuation, impact of business initiatives, and customer experience and design indexes for continuous monitoring
Design and implement foundational tests including backtesting for measuring the effectiveness of credit risk strategy and segmenting user profile
Create documentation articulating the sampling process, underlying assumptions, design of test, success metrics, and conclusion
Have familiarity with best practices and pragmatic approaches for addressing common issues including data quality, seasonality, insufficient training dataset, etc
Perform predictive analysis and support business partners with revenue and loss forecasts, budgeting, risk and incident management to proactively address foreseeable challenges
Conduct deep dive analysis and diagnosis to identify patterns, concentrations, correlations, root causes to provide transparency into business and product performance
Partner with Product, Strategy, Operations and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute strategy and decisions
Demonstrate understanding of common challenges facing TikTok business, key products, and the competitiveness of the marketplace
Qualification
Required
3+ years of progressive success in roles of increasing responsibility
3+ years working in data science, risk, machine learning, and A/B testing
3+ years of coding experience in Python, Hive, SQL and familiarity with machine learning functions, options, forecasting models
5+ years of experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau)
Preferred
Knowledge of the payments industry is highly desirable
Risk analytics/operations, data science experience or similar quantitative business responsibility for financial services, eCommerce, or operational performance highly desirable
Strongly skilled at manipulating and integrating data from a variety of sources
Proficiency with test design, feature creation, model development, and documentation
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
TikTok
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
10001+ employees
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CEO
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