Staff Data Scientist

Role Description

As a Staff Data Scientist at Circle, you’ll work closely with business partners to better understand our products, building measurement frameworks for digital assets products, leveraging data to find opportunities in digital assets product offerings, and enabling better decision-making with data. In this role, you will partner with our Digital Assets team, which is responsible for growing our flagship products (USDC and USYC). Specifically, the team is growing USDC by:

• Expanding our banking partnerships
• Offering new products that increase the utility of USDC (such as our credit and foreign exchange offerings)
• Issuing new assets via Circle’s liquidity, multichain, and settlement infrastructure

This is an opportunity for the right data scientist to impact the operation of our most valuable products. We are a passionate team with a deeply analytical approach and your work will support our mission to be a world-class company driven by data. If you love going deep on problems across product and modeling, enjoy deriving insights, love to dig deep, have experience improving data products, and are motivated by impacting business, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data science
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language, such as R or Python, for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling
• Strong understanding of statistics and experience applying statistical methods to understand business outcomes and customer behavior
• Proven experience in planning and driving analytical and data science projects
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
• Strong XFN collaboration skills and can work with and influence a diverse set of stakeholders
• Experience with blockchain data and finance data is preferred but not required

Requirements

• Perform strategic analysis, modeling, and research to identify new opportunities to improve our business
• Partner with the Digital Assets, Finance, Treasury, and Risk teams by translating the business needs to design and develop core tables
• Investigate product use and how other Digital Assets products work on-chain
• Conduct research that will help us build the best-in-class products
• Build measurement frameworks to assess the success (or shortcomings) of the product portfolio and inform decision making
• Create data visualizations to translate analytic and data science results for broad understanding across the business
• Build scalable automation solutions using SQL, dashboards, and other tools to create leverage for yourself and the digital assets team
• Occasionally share your results with larger audiences to educate them on the digital assets product and ecosystem

Benefits

• Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs
• Base Pay Range: $195,000 - $257,500

Company Description

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to View email address on us.fitly.work for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.