Varo Bank is hiring a
Staff Data Scientist

Summary

Join Varo's Data Science Team as a Senior Data Scientist to build algorithms for customer access, fraud protection, and in-app banking experience. Develop production ML models, improve customer understanding through clustering and segmentation, and collaborate with stakeholders to drive business decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, Economist, or Statistician as an individual contributor, including relevant experience from your PhD research
• An advanced degree in a quantitative field that offers training in ML and/or causal inference - statistics, economics, biostatistics, etc
• Experience applying a wide range of statistical techniques to large data sets, and understanding their real-world advantages/drawbacks
• Experienced in using Python for analysis and modeling (pandas, numpy, scikit, scipy, statsmodels, matplotlib, etc.)
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Develop production ML models to drive customer acquisition and engagement marketing
• Improve our understanding of customers through clustering, segmentation, and LTV models
• Design experiments that provide insights to the marketing and product teams as well as measure & optimize the online performance of machine learning models
• Work with stakeholders throughout the marketing and product organization to identify opportunities for leveraging data to better drive business decisions
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the engineering team to improve our production pipeline and engineer new features and metrics

Benefits

$180,000 - $210,000 a year