Director of Analytics - Remote

Overview

As a Director in Analytics at Rakuten Viber, you will work in a highly collaborative environment with extensive amounts of data to research and develop deep learning models to solve real-world problems and apply them to tasks such as identifying bad actors, preventing fraud, building anomaly detection models, and analytics at a high scale.

In Short

• Lead the development and optimization of spam and fraud detection systems using machine learning and rule-based engines.
• Work closely with management, product, engineering, compliance, legal, and security teams to align, present, and implement end-to-end fraud solutions.
• Ensure adherence to KYC, AML, and other financial regulations while managing fraud risks.
• Leverage the extensive data received from our application to enhance model performance and accuracy.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in hands-on working on spam and fraud problems at a scale of at least 1MM transactions/events per day, deployed solutions to production with a proven impact.
• 3+ years of experience in managing fraud prevention and risk teams at a corporation, preferably in fintech or cyber-tech companies with a proven business impact.
• 3+ years of experience in Python, SQL, and AWS cloud. Ability to write readable and maintainable code.
• Master’s degree in Statistics, Finance, Data Science, or Computer Science.

Benefits

• Background in data science or cybersecurity with a focus on spam and fraud.
• Proven track record of reducing fraud and spam actors at scale, with strong type-1 and type-2 error estimates.
• Strong understanding of hypothesis testing and RCT. Background in applied statistics.
• Working in high scales of >10MM transactions/day.
• Experience working with technologies like Athena/Trino, Spark, AML, CI/CD, and Tableau.