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Job Description Summary:
“Just Venmo me”. You may have heard-or used-this phrase before. Venmo has reached verb-status, becoming synonymous with “sending & receiving money”. But Venmo isn’t just about transactions. It’s about interactions. It’s where your money finds meaning as you share, connect, and split purchases with friends. People love sending money and paying with Venmo, and we’ve come a long way from our humble beginnings as a P2P app. Millions of users have now also made our products such as the Venmo Debit Card, Venmo Checkout, Venmo Credit Card, Crypto on Venmo (and more) a part of their financial lives, and there’s so much more we can do as their go-to for fast, safe, and secure payments.
In this role, you will lead a high-performing team of data scientists, and bring the analytical rigor required to solve complex, ambiguous, and high-visibility business challenges to drive growth, engagement, and monetization of Venmo. You and your team will work cross-functionally with senior leaders from product, engineering, design, and marketing teams to build world-class products by making strategic recommendations via investigative deep-dives and hypothesis-driven experiments.
Job Description:
About you:
- You are curious and inquisitive: love digging into data and uncovering insights
- You are hyper-analytical and intellectually honest, truly believing in data-driven decisions and communicating your ideas through storytelling
- You are a highly motivated, result-oriented self-starter, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and can deliver successful results with minimal guidance
- You are a player-coach, and are not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and jumping into details
- You are passionate about mentoring, developing and motivating a high-performing team to drive impact
Your day to day:
- Challenge the status quo, and truly drive data backed decision making
- Coach and mentor a large group of team members on day-to-day delivery
- Support multiple projects and analytics initiatives at the same time in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
- Partner closely with Product Leaders to build the right metrics to measure the performance of new and existing features
- Identify key metrics, conduct rigorous explorative data analysis, create executive facing dashboards and build business cases that drive decisions and prioritization
- Analyze consumer product performance and health, triage issues, and provide recommendation on the best course solution and optimization.
- Synthesizing large volumes of data with attention to granular details and present findings and recommendations to senior-level stakeholders
- Define and cultivate best practices in analytics instrumentation and experimentation
- Provide strategic and tactical guidance on specific data elements that need to be tracked to enable tracking of metrics and assess user behavior
- Collaborate with data platform teams to build/enhance necessary data platforms to provide metrics & business insights and build alerts to monitor those metrics.
What do you need to bring:
- At least 10 years of experience analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets and synthesizing insights into actionable solutions
- At least 4 years of experience in managing data science and analytics teams
- Data driven mindset with a Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in any quantitative discipline such as Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics or Mathematics
- Fluent in SQL, Excel, and Visualization tools such as Tableau or Looker; Experience with a statistical programming language like R or Python preferred
- Domain expertise in payments or other financial services and prior work experience in a product analytics space will be highly valued
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, to influence cross-functional teams
- A passion for problem-solving and comfort with ambiguity
Additional Job Description:
Subsidiary:
Venmo
Travel Percent:
0
PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.
The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.
The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is
$107300 to $259600
Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com
Who We Are:
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PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.
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