Director, Data Analytics- Risk & Fraud

Rakuten Viber is one of the most popular and downloaded apps in the world. Working with us provides a unique opportunity to influence hundreds of millions of our users and to be part of the journey that makes us a super-app. Our mission is to make people’s lives easier by enabling meaningful connections, from precious moments with family and friends, through managing business relationships to pursuing their passions.

As a Director in Analytics, you will work in a highly collaborative environment with extensive amounts of data to research and develop deep learning models to solve real-world problems and apply them to tasks such as identifying bad actors, preventing fraud, building anomaly detection models, and analytics at a high scale.

As a senior manager, you are expected to create an alignment across different divisions, focus on strategic business KPIs and lead other managers to collaborate and perform shared goals. Successful outcomes in this role will significantly impact the business.

• 7+ years of experience in hands-on working on spam and fraud problems at a scale of at least 1MM transactions/events per day, deployed solutions to production with a proven impact.
• 3+ years of experience in managing fraud prevention and risk teams at a corporation, preferably in fintech or cyber-tech companies with a proven business impact.
• 3+ years of experience in Python, SQL, and AWS cloud. Ability to write readable and maintainable code.
• Master’s degree in Statistics, Finance, Data Science, or Computer Science.