Data Science Manager

Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

About Us

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact confidently with one another. By building the future of identity verification in the United States and reinventing the currently clunky, ineffective, and expensive process, we believe strongly that the future will be 10x better. We’ve had tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Already our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, beginning with financial services. In 2021, we raised a $70M Series B round, led by Craft Ventures to rapidly scale our best-in-class products. We’ve earned coverage and awards from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list consecutively since 2023. Last but not least, we’ve even been a part of history -- we were the first company to go public with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives.

Role Overview

As a Data Science Manager at SentiLink, you will directly manage a team of talented data scientists that build our suite of products: models that identify fraudsters and also advance our growing suite of products in financial risk. In this capacity, you will be relied upon to be a technical leader, mentor, and owner of your respective domain, both for your own team and the organization. Utilize your abilities as a strong data scientist to mentor your team, probe their understanding and challenge them to do their best work. Your team will often work on projects with high visibility and impact that require deep domain understanding, critical thinking and strong technical abilities. This role requires managing full-stack data scientists, whose work involves model development, analysis, and writing production code. You yourself should share that same skillset and be interested in having end-to-end ownership in a fast-moving environment where deep domain understanding drives development and unusual insights drive our competitive advantage rather than optimization of new machine learning methodologies.

Technologies: Python 3, PostgreSQL, and AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, etc.)

This is a remote, US-based role.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage a team of highly skilled data scientists. Start from 2-3 and grow to 5-6.
• Act as a technical mentor that can dive deep and provide detailed direction.
• Lead planning, resourcing, and communications with senior leadership, product, and engineering teams.
• Develop strong business intuition and guide your team to deliver performant DS solutions on aggressive timelines.
• Develop and maintain SentiLink’s fraud detection models through the full model development lifespan: from data acquisition decisions through featurization, focusing labeling resources, model training, experimentation, productionalization, and monitoring.
• Research new types of fraud and develop new SentiLink products around identity verification.
• Achieve success by researching / developing through iteration, integration of new data sources, and inventive feature engineering.
• Write production-ready code that can be relied on for real-time decision-making by our partners.
• Design, perform, and present analyses that will inform data acquisition, product development, risk operations priorities, marketing, and sales efforts.

Requirements

• 10+ years relevant work experience & relevant Master's or 7+ years & relevant PhD.
• 2-5 years of experience directly managing a team of data scientists, ideally in a startup environment.
• 3+ years of startup experience.
• Excellent communicator and team player.
• Proven track record of solving complex / high-profile business problems with DS / ML solutions.
• Experience in communicating outcomes / progress to senior management / stakeholders.
• Very strong in “end to end” DS development: Planning, fleshing out success criteria / metrics, getting buy-in, developing the solution.