Data Scientist - Risk Management

Are you ready to make a lasting impact? Here's an exciting opportunity that might pique your interest: Embark on a journey to redefine the future of shopping and leave your mark on the legacy of Walmart's global online marketplaces. Join the Walmart eCommerce team and collaborate with supportive teammates to create innovative solutions that influence millions of shoppers daily. The Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers offering top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer service. Marketplace is an integral part of Walmart's growth strategy, and fast-paced innovation is embedded into every aspect of what we are building. The Marketplace team is seeking a Manager of Advanced Analytics, Seller Risk Management who can leverage complex data to help leaders and cross-functional teams make informed decisions, measure success, and influence policy to protect the integrity of the marketplace. You will be responsible for building a holistic view of seller risk performance, identifying potential risks, and supporting controls by utilizing analytics insights and tools (e.g., SQL/Hive/Hadoop/Cloud, Adobe Analytics, VisualIQ, Tableau/ThoughtSpot/Looker, etc.). Key focus areas include onboarding and vetting risk strategies, designing and measuring risk controls that support seller growth while protecting buyers from bad actors. This is a highly visible role where you will partner with senior leaders (Directors/Sr Directors) on business and product teams to define and measure the success of the Marketplace business.

What you'll do...

Make your mark on the legacy of Walmart and come build the next great retail disruptor of global online marketplaces. With Walmart eCommerce, you will redefine the future of shopping and create innovative solutions alongside supportive teammates while influencing millions of shoppers daily. Walmart Marketplace is a curated community of respected, professional sellers who offer only top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer service. Marketplace is an integral part of Walmart’s growth strategy and fast-paced innovation is embedded into every aspect of what we are building.

You will make an impact by:

• Contributing to a high-performance culture delivering multiple projects, priorities in a fast-paced and growing segment of Walmart ecommerce business
• Contributing to the development of strategy for reporting, testing, analyzing, and forecasting business and risk performance for Marketplace (3rd Party Sellers) segment
• Identify and provide both tactical ad hoc insights and a strategic ongoing roadmap of deep analytics to inform seller risk management performance and polices
• Delivering key data-driven business insights, working with cross-functional partners to translate risk insights into business / product strategy
• Working with the Product Management team to find gaps in current products, potential risk controls, gathering requirements, creating data moratoriums, and designing state-of-the-art data products for helping business users.
• Collaborate on roadmaps with the Product, Data Science, and other Analytics teams to understand growth and risk factors of new and future product releases.
• Defining how teams measure success by developing user/business metrics
• Working effectively with our Business, Product, Technology, and Data teams to understand our strategy and operating model and translate that into the right analytic approaches, data requirements and data models
• Designing and conducting A/B and multi-variate tests by developing test plans, defining success metrics, analyzing, and transforming data into actionable insights
• Operating with agility while effectively leveraging corporate structure to achieve goals
• Gaining support from the broader Walmart enterprise by engaging with cross-functional teams, leadership, and key stakeholders
• Automating data and analytic solutions at scale

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Business, Marketing, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 4+ years of experience in data analysis or an analytical capacity in risk management
• Strong organizational skills, a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the ability to lead projects, communicate effectively, and be a self-starter

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA or master’s degree in mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field
• Background in Marketplace Analytics, Retail and/or eCommerce Analytics
• Retail and/or eCommerce industry experience in a heavily data-driven environment
• Risk management and application of analytics

Note - this role is available on the following locations:

• Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279/Bellevue, Washington US-11075: The annual salary range for this position is $96,000.00-$186,000.00
• Sunnyvale, California US-08479/San Bruno, California US-08848: The annual salary range for this position is $104,000.00-$202,000.00
• Bentonville, Arkansas US-09401: The annual salary range for this position is $80,000.00-$155,000.00

Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.

Salary commensurate to experience and specialization, compensation is negotiable.