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title: 'Payments & Risk Data Scientist at Whop'
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# Payments & Risk Data Scientist at Whop

- **Company:** Whop
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-05-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://careers.whop.com/?gh_jid=5130020007

## Job description

Hiring a Payments & Risk Data Scientist

## About Whop

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Whop is a financial technology platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and transact digital products and services, aiming to create the world’s largest internet marketplace.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; latest deal: Later Stage VC of $200M in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Technology / Digital Commerce / Marketplace (classified as Media and Information Services (B2B) and Business/Productivity Software by PitchBook)
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – individuals and businesses selling digital goods (software, subscriptions, bots, digital content)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Provide the world with sustainable income” and “create the world’s largest internet market, where people can create, connect, and transact all from a single platform” [newsroom.whop.com](https://newsroom.whop.com/about/)

## Products & Services
- **Whop Marketplace**: A platform where users can buy, sell, trade, and rent digital software products (e.g., bots, tools, subscriptions) from peers worldwide.
- **Whop Checkout API**: Embeddable components that allow developers to integrate payment processing and plan management directly into their own websites or apps [whop.com](https://whop.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed, but listed in CB Insights’ “Unicorns – Billion Dollar Startups” collection, suggesting a $1B+ valuation [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/whop).
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Conflicting reports – $218M (CB Insights) or $280M (PitchBook). The most recent round was a $200M Later Stage VC in February 2026 [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37). Total raised to date (including earlier rounds) is at least $200M.
- **Notable Investors**: Tether Investments (lead), Iman Gadzhi, Justin Mateen, Josh Richards, Peter Thiel, Bain Capital Ventures, Common Metal, A* (A-Star), and 19+ others [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/whop) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - ~$4 billion annualized platform earnings across 145 countries [newsroom.whop.com](https://newsroom.whop.com/about/).
  - 176 employees as of latest data [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37).
  - Acquired Hyper (Financial Software) in a merger/acquisition deal [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: Large, active community of sellers and buyers earning ~$4B annually, creating a strong marketplace flywheel.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines storefront, payments, and delivery for digital products – reducing friction for creators.
- **Developer-first approach**: APIs and embeddable checkout components allow easy integration into external sites, expanding reach beyond whop.com.
- **Backing from prominent investors** – Peter Thiel, Tether, Bain Capital Ventures – lending credibility and capital.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding the marketplace** – enabling more digital product categories and geographies (already in 145 countries).
- **Building payment and monetization infrastructure** for the creator economy and software entrepreneurs.
- **Acquiring complementary assets** (e.g., Hyper) to broaden product capabilities.
- **Scaling headcount and engineering** to support rapid platform growth (careers page active on Greenhouse).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-growing fintech startup with a mission-driven focus on “the future of work” and sustainable income for users.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Based in Brooklyn, NY (300 Kent Avenue) with an office presence; remote roles may be available depending on team (check current openings on [Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/whop)).
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on APIs, embeddable components, and building scalable infrastructure for a global marketplace.
- **Growth opportunity**: Joining a company that is rapidly expanding (176 employees and growing) with unicorn status and significant funding runway.

## Sources
1. [whop.com – Careers](https://whop.com/careers/)
2. [newsroom.whop.com – About](https://newsroom.whop.com/about/)
3. [whop.com – Homepage](https://whop.com/)
4. [cbinsights.com – Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/whop)
5. [pitchbook.com – Company Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37)

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