As a Data Scientist, you'll develop and refine predictive models and recommend products, translating complex data into actionable insights while collaborating with various teams.
Why Prizeout
At Prizeout, we’re redefining how people engage with their money through smarter, data-driven rewards. We’re looking for curious, analytical builders who love turning complex, messy data into meaningful insights that drive loyalty and better financial outcomes. We keep the user at the center of every decision and we value humility, curiosity, and ownership.
About This Role
As a Data Scientist at Prizeout, you’ll work with the rich transaction and product data that powers CashBack+ and our credit union rewards ecosystem. You will use the data to build recommendation and prediction models to help match customers with the right products and improve the customer journey and ecosystem.
What You'll Do
- Translate raw data into meaningful insights and productionalized data products
- Build and maintain scalable, interpretable user prediction models that drive product value
- Build and own user content recommendation models that drive user engagement
- Develop and maintain risk models that drive product safety and business value
- Collaborate with Engineering, Analytics, Data Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to refine models and drive value
- Stay current on AI and emerging technologies to guide modeling & engineering best-practices
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years experience in data science/modeling ideally in predictive modeling or recommender systems
- Advanced Python and SQL skills
- Experience with big data
- Ideally experience with financial/transaction data or familiarity with brand data
- Familiarity with Snowflake or similar data warehouse tools
- Bias for action and comfort working with ambiguity
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, collaborative, mission-driven team
- Clear communicator who brings clarity, not complexity
- Scrappy, resilient, and energized by building things that work in the real world at scale
- Preference for candidates located in New York
Please Note: Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
The expected salary range for this position is $130,000-150,000, plus an equity component.
Prizeout is an adtech company with a three-sided marketplace that allows consumers to receive earned or allocated funds via digital gift cards. Our commercial partners offer Prizeout as a withdrawal or disbursement method, while brands can digitally advertise and acquire new customers through Prizeout ad campaigns.
Prizeout is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Top Skills
Python
Snowflake
SQL
Prizeout New York, New York, USA Office
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