Anti - Fraud Data Science Manager
Sendwave

Headquarters: Boston, MA 02134 USA
URL: http://www.sendwave.com

• Set KPIs and scope constraints for new modeling projects to decrease our information lag between fraud happening and us receiving feedback of its presence.
• Develop heuristics to quickly fight fraud.
• Identify missing tooling and suggested verification actions to help our risk representatives make sense of the system’s decision to block and correctly assess the situation.
• Evaluate and spec out integrations for new data sources for our fraud detection algorithms.
• Diligently work to lower false-positive rates
• Develop strategies to detect previously unseen patterns that may indicate a new fraud attack.
• Develop strategies and tools to help less technical individuals develop fraud-fighting heuristics.
• Automate the training and deployment of updated models.
• Develop a new anomaly detection algorithm, helping us spot strange behavior before a chargeback occurs.
• Help build experiments to evaluate new models, third-party data sources, and tooling.

• 4+ years of professional experience training and deploying models.
• At least 3 years creating production models or building analysis in the industry
• At least 1 year managing an engineering team of 3-5 people
• Work authorization in the country in which you intend to be based.
• Possess strong python software development skills.
• Experience in two or more of the following areas:
• Machine Learning (Scikit Learn, Tensorflow, Keras, XGBoost, H2O, etc...)
• SQL Analytics (BigQuery, Redshift, PostgresSQL, Athena, etc)
• Visualization Tools (matplotlib, seaborn, streamlit, Looker, Tableau, Periscope, etc)

• You like building data driven systems and know SQL.
• Have strong engineering fundamentals — you've built applications in python as well as trained model and are comfortable with supporting all layers of the stack.
• Demonstrate tenacity and a willingness to go the distance to get something done. You don't mind doing things manually but automate at every opportunity.
• Are inquisitive, intellectually curious and can make sense of complex systems or information.
• Can work in a structured approach towards goals and pay attention to detail.
• Can easily communicate with non-technical folks and translate their feedback into code.
• Are comfortable defaulting to over-communication and overreaching when it comes to coordination.
• Adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions and cope effectively with complexity and change.
• Have developed models that deal with extreme class imbalance
• Have worked in a team of mixed talent before (Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Backend Engineers)
• Have fraud or financial experience.

• Team Composition: The Risk Team is a combination of ML engineers, Operation Specialists, and Data Scientists. Functionally the team is comprised of three pillars (Operations, Data Science, and Engineering) that collaborate in all sprint and quarterly planning meetings to create a balanced roadmap. You will be responsible for the Data Science pillar and directly manage both Data Scientists and Engineers.
• Team Philosophy: The team functions on a 2-week sprint cycle with a Results Only Work Environment meaning you won’t be micromanaged but instead given the creative space needed to thrive in a highly collaborative setting
• Location:
• Our company is 100% remote and has been since we were founded. Sendwave hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however, some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Recruiting team can help answer any questions about location as we move further into recruiting process. For this role, we are able to hire in Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica (this one is very new), France, Germany, Kenya, Poland, Senegal, UK, and US, all falling within GMT -6 and GMT +2 timezones.

• A competitive salary and company equity pegged to it
• Subsidized health insurance and retirement contribution matching (both vary from country to country)
• 26 weeks fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

• Our team of over 400 employees, fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and coworking spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world.
• Proud parents, community organizers, farmers, play in bands, teach yoga, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
• We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
• Our new collaborators at WorldRemit, another remittance company. We recently joined forces, and we’re excited about the ways we can continue to provide the best service to our users.

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/sendwave-anti-fraud-data-science-manager