Senior Data Scientist
About The Position
At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs. If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value. We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to drive analytics across Ripple's product and business portfolio. You'll build the scientific frameworks teams use to evaluate product and business performance, and use AI tooling to accelerate the speed and reach of your analysis. In this role, you'll partner with product and business leads to frame the right questions, bring rigor to how they're answered, and make sure decisions rest on a consistent, thorough foundation. You'll take on ambiguous, high-impact problems, build analyses and tooling others can reuse, and raise the analytical bar of the teams you work with.
Requirements
- 7+ years in data science or quantitative analysis, with a track record of measurable impact on product and business decisions.
- Experience as the data science partner to cross-functional teams, shaping roadmaps and helping leaders make better-informed calls.
- Track record designing analytics and measurement frameworks that other teams adopt and build on.
- Hands-on experience applying AI to accelerate analytics workflows — agentic analysis, AI-assisted insight generation, natural-language data interfaces.
- Strong expertise in experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, and statistical modeling.
- Expertise in Python or R, fluency in SQL, and experience with large-scale data tech (Databricks).
- Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical depth into clear narratives for senior stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with FinTech, payments, crypto, or blockchain data is a strong plus.
- Advanced degree (MS, PhD) in a quantitative field preferred.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the data science lead for one or more product or business areas — Payments, Stablecoin, or Custody — applying strong methodology and tackling the hardest analytical problems in your domain.
- Partner with product and business leads to shape roadmap decisions: which initiatives to prioritize, what success looks like, and how we'll measure it.
- Build the scientific frameworks your teams rely on: product and network health metrics, causal inference approaches, and forecasting that holds up across institutional and developer surfaces.
- Apply AI to accelerate analytics — using LLMs and agentic workflows to scale insight generation, automate routine analysis, and make data more self-serve for non-DS partners.
- Drive evidence-based evaluation of growth across customers, corridors, and on-chain activity, surfacing the causal drivers behind adoption and volume.
- Define and communicate the metrics your teams and leadership run on, translating complex results into clear narratives for senior stakeholders.
- Raise the bar for the DS function through mentorship and by modeling strong analytical practice for the data scientists around you.
Benefits
- Professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
- Industry-leading parental leave policies.
- Family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
