Paidy Inc

BNPL service

SeniorDataScientist

Tokyo, Japan Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Data Scientist at Paidy Inc. work on data science projects related to marketing, UX, product design, and financial planning. helping the company make the right product improvements and strategic decisions for our customers and business bottom line”

What You'll Achieve.

make the right product improvements and strategic decisions for our customers and business bottom line; make a direct impact, touching Paidy's consumers and merchants, driving business decisions for the future strategic direction of Paidy; own something big and your data science solutions actually make a difference

Industry & Context.

BNPL service
Problems you'll solve

solving related business problems; proposing and delivering a solution

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

More than 5 years of experience as a Data Scientist at technology, marketing, media, or entertainment companies, Experience extracting insights and engineering features from large datasets (clickstream data, app activity data, streaming service logs) using big data frameworks like Spark, Hive, Athena, BigQuery, Experience working with a BI tool like Looker, Tableau, Experience developing predictive models applied to real-world business problems in technology, Good foundational skills with statistics, experience designing, and evaluating experiments that aim to cause behavior change on some group of customers/users, Experience building ETL pipelines with a job orchestration tool like Prefect, Airflow, Argo, Experienced working with github and a staging-production development environment for ETL and ML pipelines, Excellent command of SQL (understanding how to write performant queries on big partitioned tables), Excellent command of Python

Nice to Have

Experience working with production ML pipelines with a managed service like Sagemaker is a plus

What You'll Do.

work on data science projects related to marketing

and financial planning

helping the company make the right product improvements and strategic decisions for our customers and business bottom line

proposing and delivering a solution

feature engineering pipelines

simulation/forecasting tools/algorithms

extracting insights and engineering features from large datasets

developing predictive models applied to real-world business problems

and evaluating experiments that aim to cause behavior change

building ETL pipelines

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

consulting with business owners and executive team; Cross-functional collaboration; Acknowledge and gather the power of others, by communicating and collaborating with them

Communication Scope

Excellent command of SQL; Excellent command of Python; communicating and collaborating with them

Full Job Description

About Paidy Inc. Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading BNPL service company. At Paidy, we believe in creating simple, instant experiences to take the hassle out of shopping with a touch of magic. Paidy offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences. Paidy uses proprietary models and machine learning to underwrite transactions in seconds and guarantee payments to merchants. Paidy increases revenue for merchants by reducing the number of incomplete transactions, increasing conversion rates, boosting average order values, and facilitating repeat purchases from consumers. Paidy has reached an agreement to join PayPal, the global payments company. Paidy will continue to operate its existing business, maintain its brand and support a wide variety of consumer wallets and marketplaces by providing convenient and innovative services. Paidy continues to innovate to make shopping easier and more fun both online and offline. For more information, please visit http://www.paidy.com. About Position Your role: as a Senior Data Scientist in the team, you'll work on data science projects related to marketing, UX, product design, and financial planning, focused on helping the company make the right product improvements and strategic decisions for our customers and business bottom line. Your projects will make a direct impact, touching Paidy's consumers and merchants, driving business decisions for the future strategic direction of Paidy. Your role involves frequently consulting with business owners and executive team to understand a project/topic quickly, then proposing and delivering a solution to them and do so in a way that adds/enhances our department's assets in terms of feature engineering pipelines, predictive models, custom data marts, simulation/forecasting tools/algorithms, Scala Spark packages, and Looker model changes. If you want a hands-on fast-paced environment in a small team where you own something big

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