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Data Scientist, Payment Analytics - USDS

TikTok

Data Scientist, Payment Analytics - USDS

TikTok

Seattle, WA

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On-site

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Full-time

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1mo ago

Compensation

$136,800 - $228,000

Benefits & Perks

Annual team offsites

Learning and development stipend

Top Tier compensation with equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible PTO policy

Required Skills

Python

Apache Spark

Airflow

About Us

Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

Size: 5001-10000 employees
Industry: Entertainment & Gaming, Social Media, Technology

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Responsibilities

Team Intro:
The Payment team of U.S. Data Security department of Tik Tok provides payment solutions - including payment acquisitions, disbursements, transaction monitoring, payment method management, foreign exchange conversion, accounting, reconciliations, and so on - to ensure that users have a smooth and secure payment experience on Tik Tok platform.

Responsibilities:

This role is responsible for developing and executing on analytics and reporting initiatives which deliver data-driven insights to internal and external stakeholders, including strategy, operations, business, engineering, and R&D teams in both US and globally. You are playing a key role in empowering Tik Tok platform to achieve overall payment success by way of payment security. You will contribute to the development of industry-leading capabilities to protect Tik Tok and our users from emerging payment threats and ensure secure payment growth. You must be able to work both independently and as part of a team to deliver on a dynamic set of needs in a fast-paced environment. Specific responsibilities include:

  • Work with large datasets to solve problems that could be ambiguous and nuanced using a variety of analytical and statistical approaches.
  • Conduct quantitative analysis using statistical regression, machine learning, as well as hypothesis testing and present analysis and recommendations in a user friendly manner to propel business growth and customer satisfaction.
  • Develop a scientific approach to measure KPI fluctuation, impact of business initiatives, and customer experience and design indexes for continuous monitoring.
  • Design and implement foundational tests including backtesting for measuring the effectiveness of credit risk strategy and segmenting user profile.
  • Create documentation articulating the sampling process, underlying assumptions, design of test, success metrics, and conclusion.
  • Have familiarity with best practices and pragmatic approaches for addressing common issues including data quality, seasonality, insufficient training dataset, etc.
  • Perform predictive analysis and support business partners with revenue and loss forecasts, budgeting, risk and incident management to proactively address foreseeable challenges.
  • Conduct deep dive analysis and diagnosis to identify patterns, concentrations, correlations, root causes to provide transparency into business and product performance.
  • Partner with Product, Strategy, Operations and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute strategy and decisions.
  • Demonstrate understanding of common challenges facing Tik Tok business, key products, and the competitiveness of the marketplace.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

-3+ years of progressive success in roles of increasing responsibility.
-3+ years working in data science, risk, machine learning, and A/B testing.

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-3+ years of coding experience in Python, Hive, SQL and familiarity with machine learning functions, options, forecasting models.-5+ years of experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau).Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of the payments industry is highly desirable.
  • Risk analytics/operations, data science experience or similar quantitative business responsibility for financial services, e Commerce, or operational performance highly desirable.
  • Strongly skilled at manipulating and integrating data from a variety of sources.
  • Proficiency with test design, feature creation, model development, and documentation.

Job InformationFor Pay Transparency Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $228000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

  1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

  2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

  3. Exercising sound judgment.

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA

Job ID: Tik Tok-7566748993833781557

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-30T20:20:41
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Perks and Benefits

Health and Wellness

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • HSA
  • Life Insurance
  • Fitness Subsidies
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Long-Term Disability
  • On-Site Gym
  • Mental Health Benefits
  • Virtual Fitness Classes

Parental Benefits

  • Fertility Benefits
  • Adoption Assistance Program
  • Family Support Resources

Work Flexibility

  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Opportunities

Office Life and Perks

  • Casual Dress
  • Snacks
  • Pet-friendly Office
  • Happy Hours
  • Some Meals Provided
  • Company Outings
  • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Holiday Events

Vacation and Time Off

  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Personal/Sick Days
  • Leave of Absence

Financial and Retirement

  • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Performance Bonus
  • Company Equity

Professional Development

  • Promote From Within
  • Access to Online Courses
  • Leadership Training Program
  • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Mentor Program

Diversity and Inclusion

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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About TikTok

TikTok

TikTok

Late Stage

A short-form video entertainment app and social network platform

10,001+

Employees

Los Angeles

Headquarters

$220B

Valuation

Reviews

3.1

3 reviews

Work Life Balance

1.5

Compensation

2.0

Culture

1.2

Career

1.8

Management

1.0

5%

Recommend to a Friend

Pros

Limited positive feedback available

Company size allows for potential opportunities

Technology platform experience

Cons

Mass layoffs and poor handling of terminations

Unprofessional management and HR behavior

Exposure to traumatic content without adequate support

Salary Ranges

52 data points

Mid/L4

Senior/L5

Mid/L4 · Applied AI Product Data Scientist

1 reports

$273,000

total / year

Base

$210,000

Stock

-

Bonus

-

$273,000

$273,000

Interview Experience

4 interviews

Difficulty

3.5

/ 5

Duration

21-35 weeks

Experience

Positive 0%

Neutral 25%

Negative 75%

Interview Process

1

Application Review

2

Recruiter Screen

3

Online Assessment

4

Technical Phone Screen

5

Onsite/Virtual Interviews

6

Team Matching

7

Offer

Common Questions

Coding/Algorithm

System Design

Behavioral/STAR

Technical Knowledge

Data Structures