Senior Data Scientist (f/m/d)

About the role

Taktile is building the world's leading software platform for running critical and highly-automated decisions. Our customers use our product to catch fraudsters, prevent money laundering, and expand access to credit for small businesses, among many other use cases. Taktile is already making millions of such decisions across the globe every day.

We do this through a powerful suite of tools that combine ML/AI with heuristics and logic, flexible data integrations, and an overlay of data analytics. We see a high degree of usability as a key differentiator and have been investing in a world-class UI/UX from day one. To help us deliver our vision, we are seeking talented and experienced Lead Data Scientist.

At Taktile, machine learning and data science is a crucial component of our customer value proposition. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will shape a growing function to deliver cutting-edge, scalable data science solutions to banks and fintechs worldwide. You’ll collaborate closely with customers, as well as Taktile's customer-facing product- and engineering teams to ensure our platform and AI modules address real-world challenges. Your work will impact millions of business-critical decisions every day.

If you are passionate about applying machine learning in production, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are eager to make a tangible impact on financial services at a global scale, this role is tailor-made for you.

ABOUT YOU

• You’re an expert in end-to-end data science solution delivery, including requirement gathering, data exploration, modelling, and deployment.
• You have strong experience deploying machine learning models in production, and you’re familiar with the operational demands of maintaining these systems at scale.
• You’ve had exposure to the financial services industry before and you’re excited to solve some of the industries most pressing problems with AI (fraud, money laundering, etc.)
• You thrive in a customer-facing role where you solve complex technical challenges while engaging closely with internal and external stakeholders to drive value.
• You’re a humble individual with a growth mindset, eager to learn and integrate the latest advancements in data science and machine learning.

What You'll Do

• Forward-deployed ML engineering: Train, test, and deploy machine learning models that are tailored towards customer-specific use cases in the financial services industry
• ML operations: Deploy and maintain machine learning models in production, ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance with stringent operational demands.
• Project management: Lead the delivery of bespoke data science solutions for our customers, including requirements gathering, data exploration, feature engineering, modeling,  deployment and handover to customer teams as part of larger customer engagements (pilots and implementation).
• Product & AI strategy: Work closely with our product teams to develop and refine AI modules such as off-the-shelf AML and fraud models, transaction labelling models based on LLMs etc. for the Taktile platform, ensuring seamless integration and robust functionality.
• Mentorship: Share knowledge and expertise with team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.

Our Offer

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here
• Make an impact and shape the new data science function at a high-growth FinTech company
• Experience a flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe including the founders of Looker, Datadog, GitHub, and UiPath
• Enjoy bi-annual offsites where the entire company co-locates to collaborate in person
• Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package as well as access to a self-development budget that you can use to attend conferences, buy books or take classes
• Work at our prime office locations in Berlin for two days per week or more

Our Stance

• We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply
• We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms. We won't inquire about how you identify or if you've experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears