Senior Data Scientist, Product at MoonPay

Experience: Mid-level

Education: Bachelors

Job-type: Full Time

Location: Western Cape

Field: IT

MoonPay is a leading financial technology company that has revolutionized the way individuals buy and sell cryptocurrencies. It’s an on- and off-ramp service that enables customers to purchase crypto assets using a whole range of traditional payment methods.

Job overview 

  • We’re on the lookout for skilled Data Scientists to join our team at MoonPay. You’ll be pivotal in driving business growth and maximizing our product performance.
  • This is your chance to have a significant impact on our market-leading products, optimizing them and delivering actionable insights across the wider product organization. Join us and be part of an exciting journey to reshape the fintech and crypto industries!

Responsibilities

  • Provide insights and recommendations to stakeholders based on a deep understanding of MoonPay products, and be able to identify and drive new opportunities for product improvements & enhanced customer experiences
  • Work closely with the product teams and business stakeholders to review product performance, look for opportunities to optimize our products, and deliver data driven strategies for increased product performance
  • Define KPIs, design tracking and set up monitoring for new product launches & changes
  • Oversee and implement A/B tests and other experiments to drive forward optimization efforts
  • Design, build and scale both internal and external data products, which drive informed decision making, examples include: dashboards, reports, data models, algorithms, integrations into other product lines
  • Communicate complex concepts and findings to technical and non-technical audiences across different teams, while ensuring clarity and understanding to drive critical business decisions
  • Independently lead projects from end-to-end
  • Prioritise and manage competing tasks and deadlines effectively, aligning with goals and adapting to changing priorities
  • Contribute to our overall approach and standards within the data discipline
  • Be proactive in spearheading initiatives to support stakeholders and business partners around the organisation

Qualifications

  • 2-5+ years of hands-on experience as a data scientist or data analyst, preferably in a product-focused role
  • Advanced SQL, data modelling, and data visualisation tools are second nature to you
  • You have an understanding of the fundamentals of statistics and probability, including experience in conducting large-scale A/B tests
  • You have experience working with product teams in an analytics role
  • An active interest in cryptocurrency, and have interacted with crypto/blockchains in the past
  • Experience working within the fintech and/or crypto space is preferred
  • You have the versatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job and adapt quickly to changing priorities within a very dynamic environment
  • You are experienced in communicating with cross-functional stakeholders including product managers, engineers, and C-level executives
  • Worked with DBT, Google BigQuery, Looker and Python
  • Experience working in start-ups or scale-ups
  • Worked with blockchain data (e.g. explored on-chain activity through Dune, Flipside, or other tools)

Method of Application

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