[Remote] Head of Machine Learning - Application Fraud

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SentiLink is a company that provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. As the Head of Machine Learning for Application Fraud, you will manage a team of data scientists to develop fraud detection models and guide product development in financial risk.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage a team of highly skilled data scientists. Start from 2-3 and grow to 5-6
• Act as a technical mentor that can dive deep and provide detailed direction
• Lead planning, resourcing and communications with senior leadership, product and engineering teams
• Develop strong business intuition and guide your team to deliver performant DS solutions on aggressive timelines
• Develop and maintain SentiLink’s fraud detection models through the full model development lifespan: from data acquisition decisions through featurization, focusing labeling resources, model training, experimentation, productionalization, and monitoring
• Research new types of fraud and develop new SentiLink products around identity verification
• Achieve success by researching / developing through iteration, integration of new data sources and inventive feature engineering
• Write production-ready code that can be relied on for real-time decision making by our partners
• Design, perform, and present analyses that will inform data acquisition, product development, risk operations priorities, marketing, and sales efforts

Skills

• 10+ years relevant work experience & relevant Masters or 7+ years & relevant PhD
• 2-5 years experience directly managing a team of data scientists, ideally in a startup environment
• 3+ years of startup experience
• Excellent communicator and team player
• Proven track record of solving complex / high profile business problems with DS / ML solutions
• Experience in communicating outcomes / progress to senior management / stakeholders
• Very strong in 'end to end' DS development: Planning, fleshing out success criteria / metrics, getting buy-in, developing the solution, delivering the solution (prod / deck / strategy doc / etc)
• Strong practical ML / Stats knowledge, i.e. can easily employ the suite of standard ML / stats tools to quickly scope out solutions, and double down where needed
• Interest in developing deep domain expertise for product-focused work: a background in fraud is not required, but willingness to learn is
• Experience writing production code and tests
• Detail oriented and thoughtful—someone we can rely on to make business-changing decisions
• Thrive in a fast paced environment characterized by the need to solve extremely varied, high impact, open ended problems
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States
• Experience with SOTA ML solutions is a plus
• Bonus for familiarity with: identity solutions, fintech, or adjacent industries

Benefits

• Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)
• Flexible paid time off
• Regular company-wide in-person events
• Home office stipend, and more!

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