Data Scientist

About the role

Wave is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join our team and help us make Africa the first cashless continent. You will partner with product managers and business leaders to solve complex problems by building credit scoring models, improving fraud detection, and designing A/B tests. This role requires a product-minded individual who can translate data into actionable insights to improve user and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Be embedded closely with our product and operations teams.
• Generate insights using customer, merchant and internal data using statistical modelling, data visualization, and machine learning.
• Design, implement and analyze optimizations for our internal operations, user promos, and agent network to help teams scale and reduce costs.
• Build data-driven heuristics and machine-learning models to improve user and business outcomes.
• Take ownership of the analytics process - from project scoping and design to communicating findings to stakeholders.

Required skills

• Python
• SQL
• Data visualization
• Machine learning
• Causal inference
• Statistical modeling
• A/B testing
• English

Nice to have

• French

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Master's or PhD

Benefits

• Yearly $1,200 coworking stipend
• Subsidized health insurance
• Retirement contributions
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave
• Subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

About the Company

Wave is building financial services that are instantly available and accepted everywhere to make Africa the first cashless continent. We have millions of users across 9 countries and are backed by world-class investors including Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.