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# Head of Data Science - Fraud Insights at Socure

- **Company:** [Socure](https://feeny.ai/companies/socure)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $250k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socure/82e9f9f6-3896-42d1-b91b-d9ecaa36c6a8/application

**Skills:** Python, SQL, Graph analytics, ML frameworks, Causal inference, Statistical modeling, Panel data methods, Diff-in-diff, Regression discontinuity, Survival analysis, Network econometrics, Neo4j, AWS Neptune, Graph-based analytics, Identity network modeling, Fraud ring detection, Device intelligence, Behavioral biometrics, Browser fingerprinting, Explainable AI

> Leads the research agenda and data science team to analyze fraud patterns using Socure's global identity graph. Bridges external regulatory and macroeconomic signals with internal models to drive product strategy, thought leadership, and go-to-market differentiation.

## Job description

Why Socure? Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day. We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place. If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading.

## About the Role

Socure sits on one of the most consequential datasets in the world — a global identity graph spanning hundreds of millions of identities, incorporating PII, device signals, behavioral telemetry, network relationships, and a continuous feedback loop of real-world fraud and verification outcomes across thousands of clients. The patterns inside this graph tell the story of how fraud evolves: who the adversaries are, how they adapt, and where they're going next. We are not looking for someone to report what happened. We are looking for someone who can explain why it happened, predict what comes next, and make that story impossible to ignore — for regulators, customers, boards, and the market. This person will sit directly at the intersection of rigorous research, macroeconomic and regulatory intelligence, and the richest identity dataset in the industry.

## What You'll Do

Own the Research Agenda Bring the rigor of an applied economist to fraud — proper identification strategies, causal inference, and natural experiments. Design studies and analytical frameworks that produce findings you can stand behind publicly. Answer questions like: What drove the surge in synthetic identity fraud post-CARES Act? How do adversarial networks respond to model updates? What are the second-order effects of regulatory changes on fraud displacement across verticals?

Turn the Identity Graph Into Intelligence Work across Socure's global identity graph to surface fraud rings, adversarial coalitions, emerging attack typologies, and behavioral shifts before they become industry crises. Extract insights from the full identity stack: PII, device intelligence, email/phone/network signals, behavioral biometrics, and the longitudinal performance feedback flowing back from Socure's clients.

Bridge the Outside World to Internal Models Serve as the connective tissue between external signals — regulatory guidance, legislative changes, CFPB and FinCEN trends, macroeconomic shifts that alter fraud incentives, emerging typologies from industry consortia — and Socure's internal research, modeling, and product roadmaps. When a new regulation drops or a fraud pattern surfaces in the press, you already have the data story and the analysis ready.

Tell Stories That Change Minds You are not a metrics reporter — you are a narrative architect. Transform complex multivariate findings into white papers that get cited, presentations that land at Money20/20, regulatory briefings that shape policy, and customer insights that create competitive advantage. Your audience ranges from a CRO at a top-5 bank to a Congressional staffer to a Socure ML engineer, and you'll adjust register without losing substance.

Build & Lead a World-Class Team Recruit, mentor, and develop a team of researchers, data scientists, and analysts who share your appetite for rigor and storytelling. Create a culture where intellectual curiosity, methodological discipline, and external credibility are the standard.

Influence Product, Models & Strategy Build tight feedback loops with Socure's modeling, product, and engineering organizations so that what you learn in the data becomes new signals, smarter models, better products, and stronger go-to-market positioning. You will have a direct line into the strategic roadmap and report directly to the Chief AI & Innovation Officer.

Represent Socure Externally Speak at industry conferences, engage regulatory working groups, author market-facing research, and participate in customer and partner forums. Your external credibility is a strategic asset — you invest in it and it compounds for Socure.

Drive Go-to-Market Differentiation Collaborate with Marketing and Growth to develop research-backed thought leadership that strengthens Socure's brand recognition, supports pipeline generation, and reinforces market leadership. Your insights become a competitive moat.

## What You Bring

- Research Depth & Econometric Rigor. You approach fraud data the way a serious economist approaches a policy question — with proper identification strategies, an appreciation for confounding, a healthy skepticism of naive correlations, and the discipline to distinguish causation from coincidence. Comfortable with panel data methods, diff-in-diff, regression discontinuity, survival analysis, network econometrics, and the full toolkit of applied causal inference.
- Deep Fraud Domain Expertise. You've spent meaningful time in the trenches — synthetic identity, first-party fraud, account takeover, bust-out rings, AML-adjacent typologies, mule networks, or related domains. You understand the adversarial game theory at play and respect the sophistication of the actors on the other side.
- Data Fluency at Scale. You've worked with large-scale identity, behavioral, or transaction datasets. You understand graph structures, feature engineering at the identity level, and the operational realities of productionizing insights. Conversant in Python, SQL, graph analytics, and ML frameworks.
- External Credibility & Presence. You have a track record of representing an organization publicly and credibly — major conference appearances, regulatory working groups, authored research the market takes seriously, or a reputation that precedes you in the fraud and identity space.
- Executive Communication Without Dumbing It Down. You can write a 2-page brief for a CEO that captures all the important nuance, and go 10 levels deep with a PhD data scientist without losing them. You know the difference between simplifying and falsifying, and you never do the latter.
- Regulatory & Macro-Intelligence Fluency. You follow the regulatory environment — CFPB rulemaking, FinCEN guidance, state-level identity legislation, open banking frameworks — and understand how policy changes alter fraud incentives and attack surfaces.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Advanced degree (MS or PhD strongly preferred) in Economics, Statistics, Econometrics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field
- 10+ years of applied experience in data science, fraud analytics, risk research, or quantitative economics, with demonstrable impact at scale
- Proven expertise in fraud, identity risk, financial crime, or adjacent domains
- Strong command of causal inference, statistical modeling, and modern ML/AI techniques applied to adversarial or risk problems
- Track record of external thought leadership — publications, conference presentations, regulatory engagement, or equivalent market-facing credibility
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to author compelling, rigorous, market-facing research
- Experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with graph-based analytics, identity network modeling, or fraud ring detection using Neo4j, AWS Neptune, or custom graph frameworks
- Familiarity with the regulatory landscape governing identity verification, fraud prevention, and consumer financial protection (CFPB, FinCEN, OCC, state AGs)
- Experience with device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, email/phone/IP signals, or browser fingerprinting in a fraud context
- Published research or white papers in peer-reviewed journals, industry publications, or prominent market forums
- Experience working in or alongside financial services, fintech, credit bureaus, payments networks, or fraud consortia
- Exposure to explainable AI, model governance, or adverse action frameworks relevant to consumer-facing decisioning

Reports to: Chief AI & Innovation Officer Required Location: SF, NY, Seattle, or Miami Please note that we cannot provide sponsorship now or in the future. Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need an accommodation during any stage of the application or hiring process—including interview or onboarding support—please reach out to your Socure recruiting partner directly.

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## About Socure

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Socure provides an AI-powered platform for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk decisioning, used by enterprises and government agencies to verify consumers, businesses, and employees.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: Incline Village, Nevada, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Johnny Ayers (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital Identity Verification, Fraud Prevention, Risk Decisioning, RegTech
- **Target customers**: B2B — primarily Enterprise and Government. Serves financial services (18 of top 20 banks), government agencies (13 U.S. states, 2 federal agencies), gaming/sportsbooks, healthcare, telecom, e-commerce, marketplaces, and fintechs.
- **Mission or purpose**: To verify 100% of good identities and eliminate identity fraud.

## Products & Services
- **RiskOS®**: The company’s core AI platform for identity and risk decisioning. It is a fully vertically integrated platform that allows customers to design, test, and deploy identity, risk, compliance, age assurance, and authentication workflows across the entire customer journey.
- **Predictive Risk Score Solution**: A risk scoring solution that provides real-time fraud protection and decisioning.
- **Effectiv (Acquired)**: An end-to-end identity fraud and payment risk management solution that adds transaction monitoring, credit underwriting, and Know-Your-Business (KYB) capabilities to the Socure platform.
- **FedRAMP Authorized Solution**: A version of the platform authorized for use by U.S. federal government agencies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company).
- **Key Metric**: Serves over 3,000 customers. The company has access to an identity graph of hundreds of billions of records and over 40 billion historical known outcomes.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors are not explicitly listed on the provided sources, but the customer base includes Capital One, Citi, Chime, SoFi, Lili, Green Dot, Robinhood, Dave, Gusto, Poshmark, Uber, DraftKings, PrizePicks, and the State of California.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Achieved **FedRAMP Authorization** in April 2025, a significant milestone for selling to U.S. federal government agencies.
    - Acquired **Effectiv** to expand into payment risk management and credit underwriting.
    - Customer base includes 18 of the top 20 banks and 500+ fintechs.
    - Over 130 public sector organizations as customers.
    - Listed 100 open positions across the company.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Platform**: Socure claims to be the industry’s only fully vertically integrated identity and risk platform, which it says delivers unparalleled auto-approval and fraud capture rates.
- **Massive Data Graph**: Its identity graph of hundreds of billions of records and 40 billion historical outcomes provides a deep data moat that is difficult for competitors to replicate.
- **Breadth of Use Cases**: The platform supports virtually any industry and use case, from workforce verification to prediction markets, making it a versatile partner.
- **Government Authorization**: FedRAMP authorization gives it a unique and defensible position in the public sector market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Government Expansion**: With the recent FedRAMP authorization, a major focus is expanding into federal and state government programs.
- **Platform Expansion**: Integrating the Effectiv acquisition to offer a more comprehensive suite covering identity, payments, and credit risk.
- **AI Innovation**: Continuing to leverage AI on "offense" to keep pace with the fast-moving AI threat landscape (deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Socure is a remote-first company with talent hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Miami, London, Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. Employees have flexibility and autonomy.
- **High-Impact Work**: The company tackles hard problems in digital identity and fraud, which are central to trust in the digital world. The culture emphasizes high performance and purpose.
- **Benefits**: 
    - Market-competitive base salary and performance bonuses.
    - Equity for all full-time employees.
    - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
    - Mental health support.
    - 401(k) with company match.
    - Flexible PTO and generous paid parental leave.
    - Professional development stipend.
    - Work-from-home stipend and Deskpass access for coworking.
    - Hackathons to fuel innovation.
- **Growth & Development**: Internal mobility and career pathing opportunities, access to the latest technology.
- **Team Size**: Approximately 386 total employees (per Built In), with 100 open positions signaling strong growth.

## Sources
1. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/)
2. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/company/careers)
3. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/company)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socure?source_page=%2Fcompany%2Fcareers)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/socure)

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