Rain

Data Scientist - Fraud Risk

Rain β€’ $120K β€” $145K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
  • 3+ years of experience in automated fraud risk strategies and experimentation
  • Skilled at designing, building, and maintaining dashboards and fraud risk metrics
  • Ability to manage ambiguous problems and develop effective solutions
  • High degree of autonomy with strong prioritization skills
  • Relevant quantitative degree (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, etc.)

Responsibilities

  • Own metrics, dashboards, and reports that drive business strategy
  • Design and implement real-time fraud monitoring systems
  • Develop real-time risk controls using predictive ML models
  • Balance risk management with customer experience and margin improvement
  • Collaborate with go-to-market teams to showcase value of risk controls
  • Summarize complex analyses for non-technical stakeholders
  • Assist partners with fraud-related concerns

Benefits

  • Unlimited time off with a minimum requirement of 10 days
  • Flexible working arrangements and a stipend for home office setup
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) plan with a 4% company match
  • Equity option plan for all employees
  • Access to a Rain Card for product knowledge and testing
  • Health and wellness spending allowances for various activities
  • Opportunities for team summits and off-site events
Full Job Description
About the Team

The fraud risk management team at Rain creates sophisticated, scalable risk mitigation solutions to protect our customers and provide them a low-friction experience. We achieve this by maintaining transaction and lifecycle event monitoring, building alerts to speed up fraud detection and response, and creating risk rules and strategies empowered with ML models. We are a pillar of the business supporting new products and ensuring their success. Rain's next generation payment technology brings unique and new fraud vectors requiring holistic, end-to-end thinking, strong data fundamentals and fraud management savvy to combat.

What you'll do
  • Own the metrics, dashboards, and reports that inform business strategy and decision-making
  • Design and implement real-time monitoring systems for fraud signals and alerting thresholds
  • Design, simulate, and implement real-time risk controls using real-time and offline predictive ML models
  • Balance risk controls with customer experience by focusing on loss savings, reduced user friction, and margin improvement
  • Partner with go-to-market teams to demonstrate the technical and business value of risk controls to customers
  • Effectively summarize complex analytical results to leadership and non-technical stakeholders
  • Assist partners when they have fraud concerns with their traffic
What we're looking for
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
  • 3+ years hands-on experience working on automated fraud risk strategies and experimentation (A/B tests), including implementation of real-time and offline predictive ML models
  • Skilled in designing, building, and maintaining dashboards and fraud risk metrics
  • The ability to manage ambiguous problems and find solutions
  • High autonomy, including the ability to prioritize your workload effectively
  • Relevant quantitative bachelor's (or higher) degree (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, etc.)
Nice to have, but not mandatory
  • Experience at a high-growth fintech company or financial services company
  • Exposure to customer-facing or GTM-facing analytics or fraud issue triaging
  • Background in identity risk, AML, payments fraud, or compliance analytics
  • Fluency in AI-assisted data analysis / data science tooling


Things that enable a fulfilling, healthy, and happy experience at Rain:
  • Unlimited time off Unlimited vacation can be daunting, so we require Rainmakers to take at least 10 days off.
  • Flexible working We support a flexible workplace. If you feel comfortable at home, please work from home. If you'd like to work with others in an office, feel free to come in. We want everyone to be able to work in the environment in which they are their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers will receive a stipend to create a comfortable home environment.
  • Easy to access benefits For US Rainmakers, we offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents, as well as a 100% company subsidized life insurance plan.
  • Retirement goalsPlan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match.
  • Equity plan πŸ“¦ We offer every Rainmaker an equity option plan so we can all benefit from our success.
  • Rain Cards 🌧 We want Rainmakers to be knowledgeable about our core products and services. To support this mission, we issue a card for our team to use for testing.
  • Health and Wellness High performance begins from within. Rainmakers are welcome to use their card for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you!
  • Team summits Summits play an important role at Rain! Time spent together helps us get to know each other, strengthen our relationships, and build a common destiny. Expect team and company off-sites both domestically and internationally.

About Rain

Rain is a clothing brand that specializes in waterproof jackets. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. Rain's jackets are made from a waterproof and breathable fabric and are designed to be both functional and stylish. The company offers a range of jackets for men and women, as well as accessories such as hats and bags. Rain sells its products online and through select retailers.
Learn more about Rain
Size
10 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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