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# Data Scientist - VCS

- **Company:** Visa Inc.
- **Location:** Foster City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $137,400.0 - $212,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis, Big Data, Data Files, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Microsoft PowerPoint, SAS (Software), SQL Databases, Stata, Tableau (Software), Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** June 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4e47546e4e7df59e

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Stakeholder management?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD), * 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).

 * 2+ years' experience in data-based decision-making or quantitative analysis.
 * Bachelor's degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, economics, computer science or many others (graduate degree is a plus).
 * 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

## Description

* 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.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.


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