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$170,000 – $225,000
Listed on Taskrabbit’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Taskrabbit seeks a Staff Data Scientist to drive marketplace strategy through predictive modeling and statistical analysis, working with product, risk, and operations teams to optimize growth while reducing fraud and chargebacks. This role suits experienced data scientists with expertise in experimentation, causal inference, and machine learning who want to tackle high-impact problems at the intersection of commerce and risk.
Our summary, not Taskrabbit’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Experimentation
- Fraud detection
- Git
- Machine Learning
- Python
- SQL
- Statistical Modeling
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research, or related quantitative field
- Minimum 7 years of industry experience in data science
- Advanced experimentation and statistical modeling experience
- Fraud or risk modeling experience in a marketplace or fintech context
- Expert-level SQL proficiency
- Python experience
- Familiarity with data pipeline tooling like dbt and git
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Business acumen and strategic thinking, particularly in commerce and risk
- Ability to communicate complex findings to executives
- Self-starter capable of driving projects end-to-end
Nice to have
- Marketplace or fintech company background
- Experience productionizing machine learning models
- ML Ops familiarity