Wave Mobile Money is hiring a
Data Scientist

Summary

Join our team as a Data Scientist and help us achieve our mission of making Africa the first cashless continent by working on data analysis projects, collaborating with product managers and business leaders, and generating insights to optimize operations and improve user outcomes.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• 4+ years experience in applied data science or similar experience
• Demonstrated experience with product A/B tests, optimization, and exploratory data analysis
• Experience collaborating with and supporting cross-functional teams on data analysis and execution of experiments
• Strong knowledge of probability and statistics
• Strong SQL skills with expertise in querying, manipulating and analyzing data
• Strong Python skills with expertise in data cleaning, manipulation, and statistical analysis (strong R skills are also acceptable and a willingness to quickly adapt to Python)
• Proficiency in applying machine learning methods to solve business problems
• Familiarity with data visualization libraries

Responsibilities

• Be embedded closely with our product and operations teams
• Generate insights using customer, merchant and internal data using statistical modelling, data visualization, and machine learning
• Design, implement and analyze optimizations for our internal operations, user promos, and agent network to help teams scale and reduce costs
• Build data-driven heuristics and machine-learning models to improve user and business outcomes
• Take ownership of the analytics process - from project scoping and design to communicating findings to stakeholders

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching