Sardine

Sardine

Lead - POC Data Science

United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 47 days ago
PythonSQLKafkaMachine LearningSparkData ScienceData VisualizationA/B TestingStakeholder ManagementLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • We're looking for a Lead - PoC Data Science to lead our stellar Proof of Concept (PoC) data science team. This is a player-coach role where you will drive critical proof-of-concept (PoC) projects for enterprise customers and financial institutions, while developing your team's craft and accelerating their impact. We're seeking a hands-on leader with a passion for fraud prevention and the ability to build from scratch while thriving in high-stakes environments. You will work directly with clients to understand their unique fraud challenges, rapidly prototype proof-of-concept models, and help build scalable production ready solutions using fraud analytics and machine learning. You'll own a mix of client-facing POC/POV delivery, DS/ML product development, and team performance, with fraud domain expertise and technical credibility to work directly with clients, and with internal engineering, sales and product teams.
  • What you'll be doing:
  • Own POC/POV delivery - partner directly with enterprise customers to demonstrate fraud-loss reduction and platform ROI, from first data pull through to stakeholder readout

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of IC data scientists - set direction, unblock work, run 1:1s, and grow each person's scope and impact
  • Stay hands-on in the technical work - build or review ML models, conduct in-depth fraud analyses, and ship production-grade solutions alongside your team
  • Define and track performance metrics - design dashboards and reporting frameworks to measure the effectiveness of risk strategies across clients
  • Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and GTM to scope work, influence the roadmap, and ensure fraud solutions and models get instrumented and scaled correctly
  • Drive experimentation - support A/B testing to safely validate new strategies before full rollout

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in fraud/risk data science and analytics with demonstrated impact in fraud, payments, or fintech
  • Experience delivering POC/POV engagements with measurable customer outcomes
  • Proven track record with applied ML in fraud or risk - anomaly detection, classification, and graph analytics in production
  • Expertise in BI and dashboarding - Sigma, Tableau, Metabase, or equivalent

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with real-time decision infrastructure (Flink, Kafka, feature stores)
  • Background in a high-growth fintech, payments, or financial institution
  • Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
  • 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
  • MacBook Pro delivered to your door
  • Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world.
  • If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.
  • Strong hands-on technical skills - Python and SQL are essential

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

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.
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