Data Science Manager, Payment Performance & Insights

The Opportunity

You will serve as the technical anchor for the newly created Payment Performance & Insights team. Working directly with the VP and other payment leaders you will be the bridge between complex raw transactional data and strategic executive decisions.

This is a full-stack analytical role. You are someone who is equally at ease writing highly optimized SQL and dbt pipelines to transform raw datasets configuring LookML backends to empower self-serve reporting and designing rigorous statistical frameworks for pricing product and monetization experiments. You will have a massive influence on unlocking the power of our data and accelerating decision velocity.

What youll do

Data Foundations Modeling & Dashboards

• Architect build and maintain efficient and reliable data products (dbt models pipelines Looker explores etc.) that enable data driven decision making.
• Partner with Flywires centralized Data & Analytics team to build our core payment data assets and to consolidate sources of truth and eliminate fragmented business logic.
• You will design the semantic layer so key business KPIs are defined once governed clearly and consumed consistently across dashboards and models.
• Leverage Gen AI and modern analytics tooling to accelerate data discovery automate documentation and optimize pipeline maintenance.

Experimentation & Testing

• Define and own Flywires core payment experimentation methodology setting standards for sample sizing statistical power and significance.
• Partner with the Monetization and Experience Product teams to design implement and interpret A/B tests on pricing FX rates and payer behavior.
• Apply advanced statistical techniques to extract the signal from noise in data that can often be highly skewed.

Anomaly Detection & First Line of Defense

• Develop alerting models to spot anomalies in FX rates margin shifts volume mix shifts card authorization rates and cost structures.
• Build AI-powered automated early warning systems that monitor transactional health across thousands of corridors scaling our defense systems far beyond manual analysis.

Strategic Analysis & Insights

• Partner closely with product engineering and business to deeply understand their challenges and translate ambiguous business questions into actionable insights.
• Link user conversion and drop-off patterns in the payment flow to actual margin impacts that direct product improvement priorities.
• Bring proactive and influential product leadership into areas where data-driven decisions and insights are essential for success.

Qualifications :

Heres what we are looking for:

• Education: Bachelors degree in Statistics Mathematics Data Science Economics Computer Science or a related quantitative field. 
• Experience: 6 years of experience applying advanced analytical methods to large-scale data preferably within a fast-paced fintech or tech environment
• Data Modeling & Core Tools: Advanced proficiency in SQL (specifically GoogleSQL/BigQuery) and Python. Proven experience developing and maintaining production-level data transformation pipelines using dbt (Data Build Tool) and building/maintaining backend semantic models in LookML (Looker)
• Statistical Rigor: Solid practical understanding of statistics hypothesis testing A/B test design and experimental methodologies.
• Business Acumen: Exceptional business acumen and product sense with a proven ability to translate strategic questions into analytical frameworks and recommendations.
• Collaboration Mindset: Excited to be a technical thought partner within a lean team while serving as a strategic thought partner to payments leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct domain experience in Fintech especially global digital payment merchant acquiring card schemes or multi-currency FX platforms.
• Deep familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data ecosystem (BigQuery Looker Vertex AI/GCP GenAI tooling).
• Experience applying advanced statistical techniques (e.g. causal inference propensity score matching) to highly skewed transactional datasets.
• Experience using Generative AI tools to accelerate coding workflows data exploration and predictive models.

Additional Information :

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health Wellness Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and
• Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight for new or aspiring managers!)

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager Peers on the team the VP of the department and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your go-to person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race colour religion sex pregnancy gender identity national origin age ancestry physical or mental disability sexual orientation genetic disposition or carrier status veteran status or any other category protected under applicable national federal state or local law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time