Senior Decision Scientist - Payments

Information about the position 

As a Decision Scientist within the Data Science & Analytics (DSA) function, you will join our dedicated Payments Fraud Management team to safeguard Vinted’s financial ecosystem while maintaining a seamless experience for legitimate users. Reporting to the DSA Manager for Marketplace Payments, you will work in a high-stakes, cross-functional environment alongside Product Manager, Engineering Manager, and Engineers. By analyzing massive datasets and leveraging statistical modeling, you will optimize the balance between real-time ML predictors, hand-crafted business rules, and third-party fraud networks. Ultimately, you will play a key role in shaping our payments products and driving critical initiatives - from evaluating next-gen external fraud signals to safeguarding post-pay-in lifecycles - ensuring every transaction remains secure, efficient, and reliable.

In this position, you’ll 

• Partner with your team and stakeholders at Vinted, to identify strategic opportunities and provide data-driven recommendations, as well as answer critical business questions.
• Test and analyse developed opportunities to validate their value and understand their business impact, using statistical methods and visualisation tools
• Select, calculate, and monitor your team's key performance indicators, proactively flagging issues, running analyses and understanding root causes
• Enable your team and direct stakeholders to independently leverage data for business insights via self-service dashboards
• Contribute to a data-driven culture by promoting best practices in analytics and decision-making to make data count.
• Co-create together with Data Scientists to enhance fraud detection processes

About you 

• Experience in a Decision Science or Data Analytics role
• Good analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance depth of analysis with business impact
• Familiarity with SQL and Python
• Experience with BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Power BI) 
• Knowledge of statistical methods, such as A/B testing, regression analysis, and other inferential techniques
• Highly results-oriented and comfortable with iterative processes
• Strong communicator who can convincingly present results to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Work perks 

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office
• In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
• In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast

Working at Vinted 

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work 

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

The gross monthly salary range for this position is: 4608 - 6233 EUR