Senior Decision Scientist, Fraud

Ibotta is seeking a Senior Decision Scientist to join our Fraud Analytics team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. Our Fraud team is responsible for balancing an amazing Ibotta customer experience with minimal fraud dollar loss, and we are looking for a bright, creative, and collaborative decision scientist who will help us meet these goals.

As a Senior Decision Scientist, you’ll perform ad-hoc analysis to generate new fraud insights, and inform the business of risk. You’ll design and maintain software, dashboards and rules to help support situational awareness around our efforts, and will identify fraud potential in new features, programs and products. You’ll have the unique, challenging, and rewarding opportunity to have a material impact on the company’s operations, and will be able to advance not only your technical skills, but your organizational and leadership skills as well by contributing to the creation of best practices for the team and company, and learning from the more senior scientists and managers on the team.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

Initiate and drive collaboration with stakeholders, architects, and data and product engineers
Consult on fraud risk mitigation for new cross-functional initiatives and provide recommendations and action plans for mitigating risk to discover, define, cleanse, and refine the data needed for analysis
Design and maintain software, dashboards and rules to identify, track and monitor fraud trends.
Evaluate, recommend, and support integration work with fraud and security-related external suppliers
Continually review fraud rules to improve efficacy.
Analyze large and novel datasets to extract actionable insights to inform business decisions and understand consumer behavior
Communicate risks and requirements to cross functional teams
Provide customized views of large and complex datasets to support data analysis and business decision-making
Inform experimental design to formulate solutions addressing major business challenges and innovation opportunities
Contribute to creating best practices for the team, and help mentor less experienced teammates
Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values of Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

5+ years of experience in an analytical function with experience working directly with leadership
Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics or related field
Ability to fetch and transform large-scale datasets using a language like SQL or python for analyses
Basic inferential statistics knowledge (for example: estimating a population mean from its sample, power analysis, basic knowledge of statistical tests to compare groups)
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels across multiple business units.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the proven ability to collaborate across functional areas
Experience partnering with a cross-functional group of engineers, operations, product, and leadership teams to achieve a common goal
Self-motivated individual with strong sense of leadership, ownership, and drive
The ability to make trade-off decisions based on large amounts of data
Curiosity and the commitment to continually ask questions of our data and business
Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured data problems
Excels in a fast-paced environment with the capability to prioritize effectively
Experience using modern data analysis tools (SQL, Python, R, SAS, Splunk, etc.)
Ability to build concise and compelling data visualizations with modern data visualization tools (Looker, Mode, Tableau, Imply, etc.)

About Us:

Built and headquartered in Denver, Colo., Ibotta ("I bought a...") is a performance marketing platform that allows brands to deliver digital promotions to millions of consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). Ibotta’s network allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale.

Guided by our values and our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we build, the innovative people we work (and have fun) with, and the consumers we get to help. To date, we have credited consumers $1.5B.

Ibotta was named to the 2021 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row, after debuting on the list in 2018. The company has also been named as a Top Workplace by The Denver Post four consecutive times, made BuiltIn Colorado’s Best Places to Work list three years in a row and appeared on Inc.’s list of Best Workplaces in 2017 and 2023.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.

Additional Details:

This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, and 401k match. Denver office perks include paid parking, bagel Thursdays, snacks and occasional meals.
Base compensation range: $100,000 - $120,000. Equity is included in overall compensation package. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.
Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels

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