Data Scientist

About the Company

Rain makes the next generation of payments possible across the globe. We’re a lean and mighty team of passionate builders and veteran founders. Our infrastructure makes stablecoins usable in the real-world by powering card transactions cross-border payments B2B purchases remittances and more. We partner with fintechs neobanks and institutions to help them launch solutions that are global inclusive and efficient. You will have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company that is funded by some of the top investors in fintech crypto and SaaS including Sapphire Ventures Norwest Galaxy Ventures Lightspeed Khosla and several more. If you’re curious bold and excited to help shape a borderless financial future we’d love to talk.

Our Ethos

We believe in an open and flat structure. You will be able to grow into the role that most aligns with your goals. Our team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company.

About the Role

Rain is building a modern data team from the ground up. This role is for a high agency Data Scientist who ensures data is useful and adopted not just available.

You’ll own the tools and data that all of our leaders and teams rely on: dashboards weekly insight loops and deep dives that turn messy signals (logs events operational workflows partner escalations) into clear priorities and actions.

You’ll also be a key driver of metric correctness and adoption: reconciling definitions running acceptance tests and closing instrumentation gaps so teams can self-serve.

Reporting to the Head of Business Operations you’ll support our leadership team and work closely with Product and Customer teams to help level-up the organization.

What you’ll do

• Build dashboards and data sources that enable self-serve – clear trusted views that drive operating cadence and day-to-day decisions.

• Insights discovery – you’ll establish a rhythm that consistently surfaces what matters to the people who need it most.

• Own metric quality with stakeholders – you’ll partner with Product and Engineering to ensure we can answer the most important questions and ensure reliability.

You are likely to succeed if you have:

• A structured approach to problem solving and the ability to turn fuzzy questions into crisp analysis and clear actions.

• A strong bias for action and comfort owning end-to-end analyses from problem framing to data pulls insights recommendations and follow-through.

• Excellent communication skills and experience acting as a cross-functional thought partner to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Advanced SQL skills including comfort with complex joins edge cases and messy schemas

• Advanced experience with BI tools (Looker Mode Tableau Omni Hex or similar) and designing dashboards for self-serve analytics.

• 5–8+ years of experience in data analytics business analytics data science product analytics consulting or related roles.

Bonus attributes:

• Experience in fintech payments card programs or financial infrastructure.

• Python proficiency for analysis/automation (pandas notebooks lightweight pipelines).

• Strong spreadsheet skills; comfort building and QA’ing metric logic.

• Experience using LLM tools to accelerate analysis (e.g. classification of tickets summarization automated insight generation).

• Familiarity with modern data stack concepts (dbt dimensional modeling metrics layers) even if you’re not the primary owner).

Things that enable a fulfilling healthy and happy experience at Rain:

Unlimited time off 🌴Unlimited vacation can be daunting so we require Rainmakers to take 10 days minimum for themselves.

Flexible working ☕ We support a flexible workplace if you feel comfortable at home please work from home. If you’d like to work with others in an office feel free to come in. We want everyone to be able to work in the environment in which they are their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers will have a stipend to create a comfortable atmosphere at home.

Easy to access benefits 🧠For US Rainmakers we offer comprehensive health dental and vision plans for you and your dependents as well as a 100% company subsidized life insurance plan.

Retirement goals💡Plan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match.

Equity plan 📦 We offer every Rainmakers an equity option plan so we can all can benefit from our success.

Rain Cards 🌧️ We want Rainmakers to be knowledgeable about our core products and services. To support this mission we issue a card for our team to utilize the card for testing.

Health and Wellness 📚 High performance begins from within. Rainmakers are welcome to use their card for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes massages acupuncture - whatever recharges you!

Team summits ✨ Summits play an important role at Rain! Time spent together helps us get to know each other strengthen our relationships and build a common destiny. Expect team and company offsites both domestically and internationally.

What We Do

Our technology makes it easy for companies—from fast-growing startups to global fintechs—to integrate stablecoins into their products platforms and payment flows. Whether they’re launching a credit card program enabling cross-border payments or embedding wallets Rain builds the tools to do it fast flexibly and compliantly. We’re built for the next generation of global finance. Our infrastructure combines the stability of trusted payment networks with the power of Web3—multi-chain support 7-day-a-week settlement and seamless stablecoin interoperability. We help companies unlock real-world use cases for digital assets without the regulatory headaches or crypto complexity. Rain is a Visa Principal Member and is trusted by over 130 organizations worldwide. We’ve processed hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions across 150+ countries—and we’re just getting started. If you’re excited about building the future of payments we’re always looking for more Rainmakers to help us make money move—instantly globally and securely.

Why Work With Us

Rain is building frontier fintech at a moment of real regulatory clarity which has unlocked a massive new market for stablecoins. Backed by top institutional and crypto-native investors we’re a lean team with a big mission. All Rainmakers take on real ownership tackle complex problems and have fun doing it.

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