Data Scientist

Job Title: Advanced Analyst/ Data Scientist Location: San Francisco, CA (REMOTE) Term: 12 Months of contract role Job Description: We’re hiring a data scientist/advanced analyst within the Fraud & Safety Organization (FSO) to support Product, Operations, and Policy leaders. The FSO Advanced Analytics team drives data-informed decision-making to protect trust across the platform by embedding measurement, experimentation, and insights into product defenses and user journeys. You’ll partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and operations teams to design scalable systems that detect and mitigate fraud across domains. You’ll shape trusted user journeys across pre-trip, on-trip, and post-trip experiences, build compelling data narratives, and strengthen measurement and experimentation practices using client's rich data and ML infrastructure. What You’ll Do • Lead data-driven product strategy for the FSO Defense Platform • Build insights and reporting to detect and mitigate fraud at scale • Define and evaluate metrics, including ML model performance • Influence experimentation, causal inference, and measurement strategy • Drive decision-making through reviews, scorecards, OKRs, and planning • Building insightful dashboards for the stakeholders Organize and give direction to people and teams for highly visible and critical programs within Trust, running standups, keeping team updates, Determine and define project scope and objectives, determine resources needed, track progress, communicate progress, Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan, monitor and report risks etc. Russell Tobin offers eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity), 401(k)retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.