Senior Data Scientist
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Ripple
Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.
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About the Role
You will lead data science for product or business domains, partner with leaders on roadmap decisions, and define success metrics. You will build health metrics, causal-inference approaches, forecasts, reusable analyses, and AI-enabled analytics workflows. You will evaluate customer, corridor, and on-chain growth, communicate findings to senior stakeholders, and mentor other data scientists.
Requirements
- 7+ years of data science or quantitative-analysis experience
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams on roadmaps
- Experience designing adopted analytics and measurement frameworks
- Experience applying AI to analytics workflows
- Expertise in experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, and statistical modeling
- Expertise in Python or R and SQL fluency
- Experience with Databricks
- FinTech, payments, crypto, or blockchain data experience is a strong plus
- Advanced quantitative degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead data science for product or business areas
- Shape product roadmaps, priorities, success criteria, and measurement
- Build product and network health metrics, causal-inference approaches, and forecasting
- Apply LLMs and agentic workflows to accelerate analytics
- Evaluate customer, corridor, and on-chain growth
- Define and communicate decision metrics and analytical narratives
- Mentor data scientists and model analytical practice
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office attendance determined by managers and teams
- Team offsites, bonding activities, happy hours, and events
- Bonuses and equity
- Healthcare, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and onsite and virtual programming
- Vacation policy
- Parental leave and family-planning benefits
- Catered lunches and stocked kitchens
