Data Science Manager

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve.  Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact. 

About the role:

Forter is looking for an excellent Data Science Manager to join our team!

Be at the unique leader, at the junction of fraud-analysis, data science, and system flow Engineering to extract insights and deliver a component of logics, central to what we do.

 What you’ll be doing:

• Be the professional leader and mentor to a team of talented data scientists and researchers. Be the Data Science face of the identity network domain of the company.
• Bring the Data Science to punch in finding the best Models and features to capture the way fraudsters behave to improve real-time detection, in light of intelligent adversaries.
• Find techniques for automated learning from our data, which is meso-big and only sometimes tagged. In particular, hold our complex clustering and anomaly detection fields, and lead the machine learning revolution in new fields where inference was so far heuristic. 
• Promote solutions and complex ideas and communicate to peers, management, and customers.
• Measure and enable Info-gain-based introduction of new features into our system.
• Define and develop the way we should synthesize large corpus of analytical knowledge insights into a scalable streamed flow
• Develop measures, metrics and uses for our large graph of humans & ‘what they use on the internet’ entities, and how to spot those fraudsters hiding in there. 
• Work with colleagues from various disciplines - Research Engineers, Analysts, and your Data Scientists (all of whom write production code!)

What you’ll need:

• Proven record of at least 3 years of leading a team of experienced data scientists with clear KPIs and results that moved the needle. Working with analysts or domain experts - an advantage.
• Proven ability to work well sideways (with peers and vendors) and upward (with management). 
• Proven team building and management abilities Your people are very effective, happy, energized, and grow.
• A PhD or M.Sc. in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Sciences, Engineering, CS)
• Delivery oriented and capable: Algorithms, processes, specifications to R&D.
• Proactive. Tell us where we can use data more effectively, but we currently do not. Draw the boundaries of what is possible - you are the expert.
• Knowledge of statistical methods, Bayesian probability, and machine learning techniques.
• Background in: Python, SQL, Spark
• Experience with Big Data, including parallel processing of NoSQL data stores - a plus.
• Can work independently given abstract tasks, understand and influence research for data.
• Professional proficiency in English.
  

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Our success so far in the marketplace has allowed us to achieve a total series F valuation of over $3 Billion, making us the most valuable privately-held fraud prevention company globally. Our investors include Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital, and Salesforce Ventures. 

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.