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# Senior Data Scientist - Payment Success at Checkout.com

- **Company:** [Checkout.com](https://feeny.ai/companies/checkout-com)
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/checkout.com/13c66aa4-13d1-4cda-9af6-f8d3348cb72f

## Job description

Company Description We’rehttp://checkout.com[Checkout.com](http://Checkout.com). You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.

We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.

Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.

If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.

With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.

## About the team

Payment Success Management (PSM) is a merchant-facing team that diagnoses and fixes payment performance problems. When a merchant's performance falls short of expectations or trails another payment provider, we find the root cause and close the gap. This role supports US-based merchants and works alongside our account managers and technical account managers.

## How you'll make an impact

- Own merchant performance engagements from start to finish, typically about three months each: kickoff, diagnosis, fixes, A/B testing and reporting results.
- Dig deep into large, complex datasets to find the root cause of performance gaps. Merchants tell us there's a problem, not where it is.
- Turn your findings into hypotheses, run A/B tests and other experiments to prove them, and measure the uplift.
- Understand how our machine-learning optimization engine makes decisions. Spot patterns where it gets things wrong and work with our ML engineering team to fix them.
- Present your findings and results to merchants and non-technical stakeholders as a clear, persuasive story.
- Use automation and AI to make the team's day-to-day work more efficient.
- Share what you learn across teams. The problems we solve are rarely the same twice.

## What we're looking for

- 2+ years of experience using data to drive measurable results, such as revenue uplift, cost reduction or efficiency gains, in a role where you owned the metrics and the decisions.
- Strong SQL and Python skills for analysis. You should be confident checking your own queries, and any AI-generated code, for accuracy. You don't need to write production-quality code, and we'll teach you Go.
- Natural curiosity. You enjoy solving problems that don't have a ready-made answer.
- The ability to explain complex analysis clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Payments experience isn't required. We'll teach you everything you need in your first weeks.
- We'd love to hear from people with consulting backgrounds, where you linked client teams and technical teams, or startup backgrounds, where you owned and optimized things end to end.

Additional Information Bring all of you to work We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one. Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands. We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here. It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.

Life at [Checkout.com](http://Checkout.com) We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection. Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our[Careers Page](https://www.checkout.com/careers) to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us. For a closer look at daily life at [Checkout.com](http://Checkout.com), follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkout/life/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/)

## About Checkout.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Checkout.com is a global, high-performance payment platform that enables enterprises to accept payments, move money, and optimize revenue through a modular, AI-powered suite of services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, last funding round Jan 2022)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Guillaume Pousaz

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Payments / FinTech (online payment processing, acquiring, fraud management, money movement)
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily enterprise merchants and high-growth digital businesses (e.g., e-commerce, travel, food delivery, marketplaces)
- **Mission or purpose**: To turn payments into a powerful revenue driver for businesses by obsessing over every basis point of performance.

## Products & Services
- **Connect**: Accept payments online via a single API, supporting 150+ currencies and local acquiring in 50+ countries.
- **Move**: Simplify global money movement, including payouts, refunds, and supplier payments (e.g., via Visa Direct).
- **Boost** (Intelligent Acceptance): AI-powered engine that optimizes payment routing and retries to increase conversion rates.
- **Protect**: Fraud detection, authentication, identity verification, and chargeback management tools.
- **Manage**: Centralized dashboard for monitoring payments, balances, and analytics across all geographies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company; last Series D raised $1B at a reported valuation of $40B in Jan 2022 per news, but this is not confirmed in search results – treat as unconfirmed)
- **Key Metric**: Processed $300B in total ecommerce payment volume in 2025 for enterprise merchants (source: checkout.com homepage); total funding raised: $1.8B (Crunchbase)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Franklin Templeton, Ribbit Capital (among 14 investors per Crunchbase); partner with Visa Direct; named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2026
- **Growth Signals**: 19 offices worldwide; 1,000–5,000 employees; serves category-defining businesses (e.g., Klarna, Grab, The Trade Desk, etc. as shown in case studies); AI-powered Intelligent Acceptance delivering 4–6% uplift in acceptance rates for clients.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology**: Cloud-native, self-healing infrastructure with high uptime and local acquiring in 50+ countries.
- **AI-first optimization**: Intelligent Acceptance engine uses network data and machine learning to maximize conversions.
- **Modular platform**: Products work standalone or together, allowing merchants to customize their payment stack.
- **Enterprise scale**: Proven ability to handle billions in volume for global merchants.
- **Single platform for issuing and acquiring**: Recently unified issuing and acquiring to improve liquidity and control for travel and other verticals.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI acceleration**: Going all-in on AI across products and internal operations (see blog “How we’re using AI to accelerate our velocity”).
- **Agentic commerce**: Preparing for AI-driven shopping agents by developing merchant-controlled checkout models and chargeback strategies.
- **Expanding money movement**: Enhancing payout capabilities (e.g., Visa Direct partnership) and virtual card issuing.
- **Global reach**: Continuing to add local acquiring markets and payment methods.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-performance, ownership-driven environment with values like “Athlete Mindset”, “Never Give Up”, “Talk Straight”, and “One Team”. Emphasis on continuous improvement, data-driven decisions, and speed.
- **Hybrid policy**: Required in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (as of Aug 2025). Also offers “Work from Anywhere” options and flexibility.
- **Diversity & belonging**: Nine employee-led communities (Ability+, Arab, Asian, Black, Jewish, Latine, Parents, Pride, Women). Committed to inclusive hiring and accessibility.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health and wellbeing cover, family-forming support, high-quality food in offices, volunteering days, sustainable pace with time away, and choice/control over rewards.
- **Growth**: Fast-paced environment with early ownership, global opportunities, and a focus on learning (continuous development resources).
- **Hiring process**: Four stages – recruiter screen, first interview, task/challenge, final interview. Typically 4–6 weeks. Feedback provided after each stage.

## Sources
1. [checkout.com](https://www.checkout.com/?ref_type=adv)
2. [checkout.com/life-at-checkout](http://www.checkout.com/life-at-checkout)
3. [checkout.com/jobs](https://www.checkout.com/jobs)
4. [checkout.com/careers](https://www.checkout.com/careers)
5. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/checkout-com)

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