PayPal Data Scientist 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

605348313

Job Description:

About You:

We are seeking an exceptional Data Scientist for Consumer Portfolio Analytics team with a passion for data insights and relentless focus on execution who is

• Curious and inquisitive: loves digging into data and uncovering insights
• Hyper-analytical and intellectually honest: truly believing in data-driven decisions and communicating ideas through storytelling
• Highly motivated, result-oriented self-starter and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, and can deliver successful results with minimal guidance
• Player-coach, and are not afraid of rolling up their sleeves and jumping into details

Your day to day:

• Challenge the status quo, and drive data backed decision making
• Partner closely with product & marketing to understand new offerings being built and recommend the right metrics to measure the impact to the portfolio
• Identify key metrics, conduct rigorous explorative data analysis, create executive facing presentations and build business cases that drive decision making
• Analyze consumer portfolio performance and health, explore opportunities for driving engagement & profitability for the business
• Synthesize large volumes of data with attention to granular details and present findings and recommendations to senior-level stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineering and data engineering to enable data tracking, resolve complex data issues, and build necessary data pipelines
• Support multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Coach and mentor a small group of team members on day-to-day delivery
• complex data and tracking issues, and build necessary data pipelines
• Define and cultivate best practices in analytics instrumentation andexperimentation
• Support multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment

What do you need to bring:

• At least 10 years of experience analyzing large, multi-dimensional data sets and synthesizing insights into actionable solutions
• Bachelors in a quantitative field, advanced degrees preferred
• Excellent in SQL and scripting languages such as Python or R, comfortable working with large, complex, and potentially messy datasets
• Strong foundational knowledge of statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, statistical inference, regression)
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, to influence cross-functional teams
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience working with cross-functional teams
• Prior work experience driving data driven solutions for customer facing businesses would be highly valued
• A passion for problem-solving and comfort with ambiguity

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please