Data Scientist, International Payments

  • Full-time

Company Description

Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take a payment and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together. So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, run a busy kitchen, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. And across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow all in one place.

Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.

There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.

Job Description

The Payments Product team manages Square's flagship product, making it possible for any seller to easily take a credit card payment. Our product is Square's first touch-point with most of our sellers, drives awareness of the Square brand, and fuels the economics of the broader Square ecosystem. Our sellers have evolving needs and expectations, and it is our job to understand who they are and how we can best help them.

Payments Product's International Team will launch and grow our payments business in all international markets. We are focused on customizing and localizing our payments offering to tailor the needs and customs of each market. You will work with both our product and go-to-market (GTM) teams to help them make data-based decisions, while reporting into a Senior Manager on the Data Science team. You and your team will prioritize and set product and GTM road maps. Sound like you? Read on.

 

You will:

  • Partner with Square's product, engineering, design, marketing, and finance teams to make decisions using a diverse set of tactics, including statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning.

  • Independently research questions related to our most important product experiences and produce recommendations for peers and leadership.

  • Design, run, and analyze experiments with the goal of optimizing acquisition, activation, and retention measurements

  • Build self-service data tools that allow us to monitor the health and performance of our primary business.

  • Demonstrate data best practices and be an advocate for a data-driven culture across Square.

Qualifications

You have:

  • A degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field

  • 3+ years industry experience in data science roles (with either a growth or product focus)

  • Experience designing and analyzing A/B experiments

  • Familiarity with ETL development and best practices

  • Experience communicating analysis and decisions to peers and leadership in verbal, visual, and written media

  • Experience working embedded within a growth or product team

  • [Bonus] Experience applying both data-backed heuristics and machine-learning techniques to solve personalization and recommendation problems

  • [Bonus] Experience in the payments or FinTech space

Additional Information

Technologies we use and teach:

  • SQL (Snowflake, BigQuery), Airflow, Looker

  • Google Cloud Platform, AWS

  • Python, R

  • Machine learning and statistical modeling frameworks

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

  • Healthcare coverage
  • Retirement Plans
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Wellness perks
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

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