Data Scientist, New College Grad - 2025

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. 

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa. 

Job Description

 The Global Data Science group supports our bank and merchant partners by using our extraordinarily rich data sets that span more than 4 billion cards globally and captures more than 190 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. To support our rapidly growing group, we are looking for Data Scientists who are passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to address and deliver significant results to complex problems! You will join one of the Data Science focus areas (e.g. merchants, banks) with an opportunity for rotation between Data Science teams to gain broad exposure to Visa’s business. 

Essential Functions: 

• Be an out-of-the-box thinker who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems 
• Communicate with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with data 
• Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights 
• Develop visualizations to make your complex analyses accessible to a broad audience 
• Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients 
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging Visa data to drive business solutions. 
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clients 
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques. 
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets. 
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, advertising targeting and other business outcomes. 
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• 2 years of relevant work experience with a Master's degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, economics, computer science, or a related field, graduating January 2024 - August 2025  

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools 
• Competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau 
• Experience in understanding and analyzing data using statistical software (e.g., Python, SAS, R, Stata or others) 
• Previous exposure to financial services, credit cards or merchant analytics is a plus, but not required

Additional Information

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $129,400 - $165,00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.   

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered. 

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department 

This is a hybrid position: Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs. 

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time. 

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers. 

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law. 

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.