At a Glance
- Tasks: Use data to influence product strategy and optimise operations in a fast-paced fintech environment.
- Company: Join Checkout.com, powering payments for major brands like eBay and Spotify.
- Benefits: Flexible hybrid work model, career growth opportunities, and a supportive team culture.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on personal growth and meaningful challenges.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on digital experiences while developing your data science skills.
- Qualifications: Strong analytical skills, experience with SQL and Python, and a passion for data-driven solutions.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
We're Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we're behind many of the digital experiences you use every day. We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.
As a Product Data Scientist, you'll work as part of a cross-functional team alongside product managers, designers, and software and analytics engineers, using data and your analytical expertise to influence the strategy of our Operations and Compliance products. You'll focus on two main domains: AML Transaction Monitoring and Merchant Care.
You'll help define how we measure the success of our products, collaborate with engineers on data collection, build analytical frameworks, and run insights to find product improvement opportunities. Data Analytics at Checkout.com is a highly visible function that critically impacts the company's success.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Efficiency & Product Measurement: Build frameworks to measure the operational efficiency and ROI of new software releases and internal tooling updates within Merchant Care.
- Data Partnerships: Work closely with Data Analytics Engineers and Software Engineers to ensure we log and model the right data to produce high-integrity business insights.
- Data-driven automations and solutions: Run historical data simulations to analyze how changes in our deterministic AML rule thresholds affect review backlogs, and suggest optimal logic updates to our SQL-based alerts.
- Text Analytics & Insights: Use clustering techniques and LLM-based summary extraction on merchant ticket conversations to identify recurring user friction points and help product teams map future features.
What We're Looking For
- Technical foundations: Excellent data interrogation skills with SQL and the ability to comfortably write, read, and iterate through Python scripts to run data science analyses.
- Foundational ML knowledge: A good understanding of foundational data science concepts (e.g., statistics, clustering, basic NLP workflows).
- Analytical Mindset: A strong analytical mind with a demonstrable ability to take operational problems and convert them into structured, data-informed solutions.
- Communication: Clear and precise communicator, able to explain data insights and analytical logic to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience: Prior experience or a strong internship background in product analytics, risk/compliance data, or a high-growth tech environment is a plus.
Additional Information
We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one. Here, you'll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It's a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands.
We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you're ready to grow and make a difference, you'll be right at home here.
It's important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.
Life at Checkout.com
We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.
Product Data Scientist in City of Westminster employer: Checkout.com
Checkout.com is an exceptional employer that champions a flexible hybrid working model, allowing employees to balance their professional and personal lives effectively. With a strong emphasis on growth and collaboration, the company provides ample opportunities for career development while working alongside talented teams in the dynamic financial services sector in London. Joining Checkout.com means being part of a forward-thinking organisation that values compliance and innovation in payments and product regulation.
