Job Description:
Director, Data Science
What You Need to Know About the Role:
Performance and Personal Competencies:
- Strategic Capabilities: optimizing analytics to drive insights and strategic direction across product, finance and related functions
- Analytics Capabilities: identifying insights through data analytics and business knowledge. Deliver a compelling enterprise vision for how analytics can contribute to optimizing customer experiences, product performance and critical KPI’s
- Leadership Capabilities: growing an inclusive team internally and externally. Exceptional influencing skills and ability to work cross collaboratively.
Your Day-to-Day
- Partner with business leaders to develop and drive actionable insights
- Collaborate with product, finance, and other domains to shape differentiated analytical services and solutions that benefit the business
- Drive product experimentation and AB test measurement best practices across the team
- Serve as a bridge between product, finance, and other functional areas
- Develop strategy and tactical solutions for advanced analytics capabilities that ensure PayPal is making data-driven decisions
- Prioritize analytics and delivery initiatives and build a trusted, business-oriented, and highly- capable organization
- Attract, retain and develop a world class analytics team across a global footprint
What You Need to Bring
- A successful candidate should have at least 10+ years of experience within data science, analytics and experimentation preferably within a consumer product
- Candidates should have at least 5+ years of experience managing direct reports
- Hands on experience drivingproduct experimentation and AB test measurement best practicesis required
- The ideal candidate will be a great people leader but able to dig into the work where necessary
- Excellent people and stakeholder management skills, to include strong influencing skills and ability to navigate a global and matrixed organization
- Strong passion and commitment for attracting and developing talent
- Outstanding problem-solving skills, with strong ability to drive towards action and impact
- Demonstrated ability to drive business value through research, insights and measurement
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and change
- Strong affinity to the consumer tech and/or financial services category
- Mastery in analyzing product data (complex and multi-dimensional data sets)
- High-energy and self-driven orientation
Travel Percent:
The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .
The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is
$120300 to $287100
Our Benefits:
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