Sardine

Sardine

Senior Data Scientist

United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 316 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningSparkData ScienceData VisualizationProblem SolvingCritical Thinking

About the role

  • We're looking for a data-driven professional to help us measure, understand, and improve the performance of our risk strategies - and to stay ahead of evolving fraud threats by designing and deploying data-driven solutions with real-world impact.
  • This is a hands-on, high-impact role ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of data science, client-facing problem solving, and real-time risk.
  • Champion a data-first approach across internal teams and client engagements, promoting clarity and impact

Responsibilities

  • Develop and track metrics to measure and monitor the performance of our risk products and the effectiveness of risk management strategies
  • Use data and models to support the development of risk mitigation strategies and interventions while preserving and improving the user experience
  • Collaborate with engineering to scale models into production, optimize performance, and support data instrumentation
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (Business, Product, and Engineering) to translate business requirements into data-driven solutions
  • You'll also analyze complex datasets, design metrics, build dashboards, and collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business to drive decision-making and optimize outcomes.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in data science, quantitative modeling, or a data-focused role (product analytics, business analytics) with demonstrated high impact in fraud or risk contexts
  • Proven ability to structure and analyze complex data using techniques like EDA and cohort analysis, and communicate findings effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, including clients
  • Proficiency in defining, tracking, and communicating performance metrics

Nice to have

  • Strong hands-on experience with Python/R and SQL is essential, with Spark being a nice to have

Skills

  • Create and automate self-serve dashboards leveraging BI tools
  • Expertise in BI tools such as Tableau, Sigma, or Metabase
  • Sharp critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a bias toward action

Compensation

  • Generous compensation in cash and equity

Benefits

  • Generous compensation in cash and equity
  • Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
  • Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • One-time stipend to set up a home office - desk, chair, screen, etc.
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Monthly social meet-up stipend
  • Annual health and wellness stipend
  • Annual Learning stipend
  • Build and deploy machine learning models to prevent fraud across diverse fintech use cases, from proof-of-concept through to production
  • You'll work directly with clients to understand their unique fraud challenges, rapidly prototype proof-of-concept models, and build scalable, production-ready solutions using machine learning and graph analytics.

Company info

  • Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
  • Our culture:
  • We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere
  • We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
  • We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.
  • USA or Canada
  • From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!
  • Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime.
  • Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations.
  • Sardine's platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide.
  • Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
  • Remote - USA or Canada
  • We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team.
  • So you can find your productive zone and work from there.
  • About the role
  • What you'll be doing
  • Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover insights contributing to fraud reduction and higher approval rates for our clients
  • Work directly with clients to understand their fraud challenges and translate complex data insights into clear, actionable recommendations
  • What you'll need

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We have raised $145M from world-class investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Activant, Visa, Experian, FIS, and Google Ventures.
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