Senior Data Scientist Inference Estimation at Ramp

Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrations—designed to save businesses time and money with every click. Over 5000 businesses are spending an average of 3.3% less and closing their books 8 times faster, thanks to Ramp’s finance automation platform. Ramp enables billions of dollars of purchases each year.
Founded in 2019, Ramp has achieved a valuation of $8.1 billion in just over 3 years, on the heels of nearly 10x year-over-year growth. It has raised over $1B in funding from investors including Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The team featu combines experience from some of the leading financial services and fintech companies—Capital One, Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Visa—with high-growth technology companies like Facebook, Spotify, Zendesk, Intercom, and Webflow. Recently named Fast Company’s most innovative finance company, Ramp is NYC’s fastest-growing startup and America’s fastest-growing corporate card.
About the Role
We’re looking for someone to help lead the future of data science at Ramp. The Data Science team at Ramp creates value by optimizing core leverage points across the business and owning the models powering decision-making. You will need to have a head for strategy & cross-functional collaboration, since you will partner closely with business & product stakeholders to prioritize, execute, and drive results. You will also partner closely with the rest of the data team and the engineering team to design, implement, and maintain data science models in production.
Inference & estimation data science at Ramp focuses on solving quantitative problems across credit, fraud, growth, and our core product by applying the right mix of causal inference, structural modeling, and optimization.
What You’ll Do


Develop Ramp’s research and experimentation frameworks by developing causal inference based models and tools to drive analysis
Full stack data science development: from upstream data modeling and cleaning, to research and prototyping, to deploying and monitoring models in production
Contribute to the company roadmap by working closely with stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of prioritization: from complex and nebulous business context, to well-defined objectives, to a roadmap of scoped opportunities for leveraging data science to drive business results
Leverage a combination of causal inference, structural modeling and optimization to build key models to solve core business problems
Formulate backtesting frameworks to empirically validate model performance
Design, implement, and evaluate statistically-sound experiments to measure the causal impact of treatments and interventions
Generate and communicate data-driven insights to influence decision making across Ramp


What You Need

Bachelor’s degree or above in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields with a minimum of 3 years of industry experience as a Data Scientist, Research Scientist, or equivalent
Strong knowledge of SQL (preferably Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery), experience working with large datasets in Python
Strong familiarity with the mathematical fundamentals of advanced statistics, optimization, and/or economics, as well as methods for experimental design and causal inference
Strong communication: the ability to bridge technical methodology to meaningful data narratives to drive company decisions and strategy
Track record of shipping high quality data products in production and at scale
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly improving, start-up environment that focuses on solving problems with iterative technical solutions

Nice to Haves

PhD in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields
Strong perspective on analytics engineering development cycle (data modeling, version control, documentation + testing, best practices for codebase development)
Familiarity with data orchestration platforms (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
Experience at a high-growth startup

Ramp Benefits (for U.S. based employees)

100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you

Partially covered for your dependents
OneMedical annual membership


401k (including employer match)
Unlimited PTO
Annual education reimbursement
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Monthly wellness stipend; Headspace annual membership
Parental Leave
Relocation support