Senior Staff Data Scientist, Trust and Anti-Abuse

LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. Were also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture thats built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Trust Data Science team powers the mission of creating safe, trusted, and professional experiences on LinkedIn through rigorous metrics, experimentation, and advanced data solutions. Measuring trust is inherently challenging as abuse is adversarial, ground truth is noisy, and outcomes are often long-tailed. We tackle these challenges using advanced statistical techniques to design and build robust, actionable metrics, make them experimentable, while building highly reliable, semantically rich data pipelines enabling data-driven decision making across the Trust organization.

In this role, we are looking for a technical leader in the Anti-abuse domain, specifically focused on mitigating harm from inauthentic accounts (fake accounts and account compromise / take overs) and behavioral abuse (scraping, automation and fake engagement). Accounts and Behavioral anti-abuse is one of the top priorities at Trust and has a foundational impact on the health of LinkedIn's ecosystem through protection of our member's identity and social graph.

This person will work closely with various cross-functional teams such as product, engineering, design, AI, legal, and operations in Trust areas, to develop and deliver complex metrics, analyses / inferences, data solutions that inform critical decisions.. Successful candidates will exhibit technical acumen, product sense and business savvy, with a passion for making an impact through creative storytelling and timely actions.

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to initiate, lead and drive to completion large-scale / complex strategic projects for teams, departments and the company.

Act as a thought partner to senior leaders to prioritize / scope projects, provide recommendations, and evangelize data-driven business decisions in support of strategic goals.

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design as well as lead code / design reviews.

Drive org-wide impact by shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations.

Work with a team of high-performing data science professionals, and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities, optimize product performance or go to market strategy.

Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data; develop deep-dive analysis and machine learning models to drive member value and customer success.

Design and develop core business metrics, create insightful automated dashboards and data visualization to track them and extract useful business and product insights.

Design and analyze experiments to measure the impact of new Trust defenses, assess collateral damage on growth metrics, and quantify unintended Trust risks from product or marketplace changes. Translate results into clear, actionable recommendations, and drive alignment through compelling, insight-driven narratives

Collaborate with engineering to ensure scalable, reliable, and discoverable data infrastructure that powers experimentation and insights

Basic Qualifications

B.S. Degree in a quantitative discipline : Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Informatics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics, etc.

5+ years relevant work experience in anti-abuse / adversarial areas like Fake Accounts and ATOs

5+ years experience with SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., R, Python, Scala)

2+ years experience in an architect or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years of overall experience with at least 5+ of those years leading teams technically

Experience influencing strategy through data-centric presentations .

Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package.

Experience telling stories with data and visualization tools

Experience running platform experiments and techniques like A / B testing

Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand the product priorities, think with the big picture and solve core problems in the most efficient way

Experience with manipulating massive-scale structured and unstructured data.

Proven record writing and optimizing code with high levels of craftsmanship, and coaching others to improve technical outputs.

Working knowledge of Unix command-line / shell, git and review board.

Experience leveraging government data or publicly available third-party APIs.

Experience mentoring other data scientists in an official or unofficial capacity.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audience, including executives and compile compelling narratives.

Suggested Skills

Data Science

Causal inference

A / B Testing

You will Benefit from our Culture

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. The pay range for this role is $168,000 to $276,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and / or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit

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