Senior Data Scientist

To ensure that Visa’s payment technology is truly available to everyone, everywhere requires the success of our key bank or merchant partners and internal business units. The Global Data Science group supports these partners by using our extraordinarily rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. We work in complementary teams comprising members from Data Science and various groups at Visa. To support our rapidly growing group we are looking for Data Scientists who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to tackle meaningful business problems. You will join one of the Data Science focus areas (e.g., banks, merchants & retailers, digital products, marketing) with an opportunity for rotation within Data Science to gain broad exposure to Visa’s business. Essential FunctionsProvide technical leadership in a team that generates business insights based on big data, identify impactful recommendations, and communicate the findings to clientsBrainstorm innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problemsConnect with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with dataExtract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insightsDevelop visualizations to make your sophisticated analyses accessible to a broad audienceFind opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clientsWork with partners throughout the organization to find opportunities demonstrating Visa data to drive business solutionsMine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clientsAssess the efficiency and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniquesDevelop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data setsUse predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, and other business outcomesPartner with a variety of Visa teams to provide comprehensive solutionsSynthesize ideas/proposals in writing and engage in productive discussions with external or internal partnersProvide mentorship in modern analytic techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visa’s unique data set, in keeping with market trends, client needs and emerging techniquesPrioritize and lead multiple data science projects with diverse multi-functional partnersThis is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.