Flex

FinTech

SeniorStaff,DecisionScientist,Risk

$216–270k New York, New York, United States
The Brief

“Senior Staff, Decision Scientist, Risk at Flex. Skills: payment decisioning, authorization optimization, PSP routing, cost vs. risk tradeoffs, risk modeling, forecasting, experimentation. Own and evolve Flex’s payment decisioning and routing strategy across multiple PSPs. Use data to increase authorization rates while reducing processing costs and losses”

What You'll Achieve.

increase authorization rates; reducing processing costs and losses; improve reliability and performance; identify product and platform improvements; understand the impact of policy and product changes; measure tradeoffs between growth, risk, cost, and user experience; Define metrics and dashboards to monitor performance and guide strategy

Industry & Context.

FinTech
Problems you'll solve

Analyze large-scale payment and risk data to identify product and platform improvements; Run experiments and measure tradeoffs between growth, risk, cost, and user experience

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years of experience in payments, risk, credit, decision science, or platform analytics, hands-on skills in Python and SQL, working with large, messy datasets, Experience working on high-scale transactional systems (payments, lending, marketplaces, fintech, or similar), product and business intuition

Nice to Have

Background in fintech, payments, or large tech platforms is a plus

What You'll Do.

Own and evolve Flex’s payment decisioning and routing strategy across multiple PSPs

Use data to increase authorization rates while reducing processing costs and losses

Design and evaluate retry

and fallback strategies to improve reliability and performance

Analyze large-scale payment and risk data to identify product and platform improvements

Build models and forecasts to understand the impact of policy and product changes

Run experiments and measure tradeoffs between growth

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to ship improvements to the payments platform

Communication Scope

Communicate clear, actionable recommendations to leadership and stakeholders

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