Ripple
Staff Data Scientist
$212K–$265K
San Francisco, CA, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in data science or quantitative analysis.
- Education
- Advanced degree (MS, PhD) in a quantitative field preferred.
About the job
Leads data science across Ripple’s products and business teams, building reusable measurement frameworks and applying AI to expand analytics and guide decisions.
What you'll do
- Set analytical standards and strategy, and solve complex data science problems across product and business teams.
- Develop reusable metrics, causal inference, forecasting, liquidity, and adoption frameworks; evaluate growth across customers, corridors, and on-chain activity.
- Apply AI workflows to scale insight generation and self-service analytics, communicate findings to leaders, and mentor data scientists.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated technical leadership across cross-functional teams, influencing roadmaps and strategy.
- Experience designing reusable analytics and measurement frameworks that scale across products.
- Hands-on experience applying AI to accelerate analytics workflows.
- Expertise in experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, and statistical modeling in a product environment; Python or R, SQL, and large-scale data technology experience.
Nice to have
- FinTech, payments, crypto, or blockchain data experience.
- Advanced degree (MS, PhD) in a quantitative field.
Pay
$212,000 — $265,000 USD (CA annual base salary)
Tools
Python, R, SQL, Databricks, Airflow, dBT
AI focus
Use LLMs and agentic workflows to accelerate analytics, generate insights, automate routine analysis, and enable self-serve exploration and natural-language data interfaces.
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