Senior Data Scientist

Match Group’s Evergreen & Emerging (E&E) organization is one of the world’s leading online dating groups, home to a diverse and well-known portfolio that includes OkCupid, , Meetic, PlentyOfFish, Affinity, and more. Our team is based in Vancouver and works closely with other Match Group (NASDAQ : MTCH) brands like Tinder and Hinge.

We love what we do and are motivated by the opportunity to make a positive impact on millions of people every day. We work hybrid on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in our downtown Vancouver office, and remotely the rest of the week.

We’re looking for a

Senior Data Scientist who thrives at the intersection of experimentation, engineering, and product impact. You’ll work on high-visibility projects spanning recommendation systems, personalization, fraud prevention, and behavioral modeling — building production-grade models that power real-world experiences across our apps.

How you will make impact :

• You can clean, analyze, and mine data to unearth trends.
• You also have the technical chops to build a system around this data that improves the POF experience - deploying production codeYou can develop data pipelines with automated, machine-learning systems that convert large source datasets into actionable signals.
• You like deep-diving into unstructured data and building complex models to extract valuable insights into our users and our business
• You can perform time series analysis and forecasting for a variety of important business and operational metrics.
• You make business recommendations ( cost-benefit, trend forecasting, experiment analysis) with effective presentations of quantitative findings to multiple levels of stakeholders.
• You craft new algorithms and learning systems to detect and combat spam and fraud.
• You have experience coordinating with business analysts to define analytic events and key performance metrics.
• You have experience writing complex algorithms and measuring their impact on a user base.
• You can see the “big picture” and how your work relates to POF’s entire business - and the ability to prioritize your work accordingly

We may be a Match if :

$150,000 - $160,000 a year

The compensation range listed above is representative of the base salary offered.

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education / training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of a position based in Vancouver, Canada. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city, state, and country), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

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Why Match Group?

Our mission is simple – to help people find love and happiness! We love our employees too and understand the importance of all life's milestones. Here are some of the benefits we are proud to offer :

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value the rich dynamics that diversity brings to our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, age, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy and sexual harassment), gender identity or expression, uniformed service or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.  Period.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process — such as during pre-employment testing or interviews — please indicate this by selecting “Yes” in the accommodation request field. We’ll reach out to discuss your needs if you're selected for the interview stage.

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