Senior Staff Data Scientist
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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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 methods across product and business areas. You will define analytics strategies, build reusable measurement frameworks, apply AI and agentic workflows, evaluate growth and adoption, develop metrics, communicate findings to executives and stakeholders, and mentor data scientists.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data science or quantitative analysis
- Technical leadership experience across cross-functional teams
- Experience designing reusable analytics and measurement frameworks
- Hands-on experience applying AI to analytics workflows
- Expertise in experimentation causal inference forecasting and statistical modeling
- Expertise in Python or R
- Fluency in SQL
- Experience with large-scale data technologies such as Databricks Airflow and dbt
- Experience with FinTech payments crypto or blockchain data preferred
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field preferred
- Exceptional communication skills
Responsibilities
- Set methodological standards across product and business teams
- Define analytics strategy with product and business leaders
- Build reusable product and network health metrics
- Develop causal inference playbooks liquidity models adoption models and forecasting approaches
- Apply LLMs and agentic workflows to analytics
- Automate routine analysis and enable self-service exploration
- Evaluate growth across customers corridors and on-chain activity
- Identify causal drivers of adoption and volume
- Define and communicate leadership metrics
- Translate complex results into clear narratives
- Provide thought leadership and mentorship to data scientists
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare retirement family forming and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement
- Weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches
- Fully stocked kitchens
- Employee events
