Circle is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to partner closely with business teams to better understand our products and the payments ecosystem. Your work will enable data-driven decision-making and support our mission to build an amazing onchain payments product.
What You'll Do
- Partner with the payments team to translate business needs into the design and development of core data tables.
- Investigate product use and research how other payments products work onchain to help us build best-in-class products.
- Perform strategic analysis and research to identify new business improvement opportunities.
- Create data visualizations to translate analytic results for broad understanding across the business.
- Build scalable automation solutions using SQL, dashboards, and other tools to create leverage.
- Partner with leaders, employing clear communication to tell a story focused on business insights.
- Occasionally share results with larger audiences to educate them on the payments product and ecosystem.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in data science.
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language, such as R or Python, for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.
- Strong understanding of statistics and experience applying statistical methods to understand business outcomes and customer behavior.
- Proven experience in planning and driving analytical and data science projects.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills to convey complex findings to both technical and non-technical partners.
Nice to Have
- Deep knowledge and/or experience in payments products and services.
- Deep knowledge and/or experience in exploring blockchain data and public transaction data.
Technical Stack
- SQL
- R
- Python
Work Mode
This role supports a global work mode.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire.

