Visa · 2 days ago
Data Scientist
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions globally. The Data Scientist role involves using Visa’s extensive data to tackle business problems and provide insights to clients while collaborating with various teams within the organization.
BankingFinanceFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobile PaymentsPayments
Responsibilities
Be an out-of-the-box thinker who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems
Communicate with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with data
Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights
Develop visualizations to make your complex analyses accessible to a broad audience
Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients
Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging Visa data to drive business solutions
Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clients
Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques
Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets
Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, advertising targeting and other business outcomes
Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy
Qualification
Required
2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
Preferred
3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
2+ years' experience in data-based decision-making or quantitative analysis
Bachelor's degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, economics, computer science or many others (graduate degree is a plus)
Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools
Competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau
Experience in understanding and analyzing data using statistical software (e.g., Python, R, Stata or others)
Previous exposure to financial services, credit cards or merchant analytics is a plus, but not required
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401 (k)
FSA/HSA
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Wellness Program
Company
Visa
Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
H1B Sponsorship
Visa has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Funding
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