Job Description

Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Data Scientist (multiple openings) in Foster City, CA to 
•    Work within a team to generate business insights based on big data, identify actionable recommendations and communicate the findings to clients. 
•    Brainstorm innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems. 
•    Communicate with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with data. 
•    Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights. 
•    Develop visualizations to make your complex analyses accessible to a broad audience. 
•    Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients. 
•    Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging Visa data to drive business solutions. 
•    Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clients. 
•    Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques. 
•    Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets. 
•    Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, and other business outcomes. 
•    Position reports to the Employer’s Foster City, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.
 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field and 6 months of experience in the job offered or in a Data Scientist-related occupation.
• Extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL.
• Excel, PowerPoint, and Tableau.
• Analyzing data using Python, SAS, R, or Stata.