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Senior Data Scientist, Analytics (Risk & Payments)

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Singapore
Senior level
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Singapore
Senior level
Designs experiments and measurement frameworks to improve payment success and product experience. Identifies growth opportunities, translates business problems into data science initiatives, and influences product strategy through actionable insights. The role requires strong experimentation, causal inference, SQL, and Python or R skills, along with stakeholder communication. It also serves as a technical owner for cross-functional initiatives and mentors junior data scientists.
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About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

 

What You’ll Do

  • Design and implement rigorous frontend experiments to improve the payment product experience and payment success rates

  • Identify and quantify opportunities to improve and grow the payments product, and drive roadmaps with those insights

  • Translate open-ended business problems into clearly defined data science initiatives

  • Build scalable measurement frameworks and strategic north star metrics to enable consistent, data-driven decision-making across teams that directly informs product strategy

  • Communicate data insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring findings influence stakeholders

  • Mentor and coach junior data scientists, and act as the single-threaded technical owner on cross-functional initiatives

Qualification

  • 7+ years industry experience and a degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, Computer Science, Economics). An advanced degree (MS or PhD) is a bonus

  • Proven experience in experimentation and causal inference to drive data-informed product decisions with concrete impact

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; proven ability to influence product strategy in high-growth environments

  • Strong skills in SQL and Python/R; experience with data modeling a plus

  • Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous


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Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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Airwallex San Francisco, California, USA Office

Airwallex San Francisco, US Office

188 Spear Street’s superior location is two blocks from the Embarcadero, the promenade running along the SF waterfront, and offers exceptional views and convenience through its easy access to BART, Muni, ferries, the Transbay Terminal, the Bay Bridge and all major freeways.

Sales

This is not just another sales role. It is a chance to sell a proven global platform, shape how we win across the Americas, and do career-defining work. You get the product, the territory, and the support to build real momentum.

AI Engineering

Our SF AI Engineering team at Airwallex is building production-grade AI that automates the hardest parts of global finance — from payments and onboarding to reconciliation, bookkeeping, and tax. Sitting on top of our proprietary global payments infrastructure and massive real-time transaction datasets, we design and ship vertical AI systems — from LLM-powered copilots and agentic workflows to fine-tuned models — that reach customers quickly and at scale. We’re a small, senior, zero-ego group with high ownership: engineers work end to end from problem framing and experimentation through to deployment and evals, using the right tool for the job to turn deep AI work into visible, shipped impact.

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