Contract Data Scientist Risk Jobs in Tacoma, WA (NOW HIRING)

Block builds simple, powerful tools that make progress towards an economy that's truly open to all. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone. Join us.

The Data Science team at Block turns unique customer and product data into decisions that expand access to financial services. Our Support and Risk team powers decisioning behind Cash App, Afterpay, Square, and the next generation of Operations automation.

We're looking for a Data Scientist to help build, measure, and improve Risk and Support Operations that serve our customers with speed and quality. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, and risk teams to define metrics, evaluate experiments, understand customer behavior, and turn ambiguous product questions into clear decisions.

This is an agentic data science role. You'll use AI tools and agent workflows to move faster and think more rigorously across the full data science loop: exploring messy datasets, building pipelines, stress-testing hypotheses, evaluating product changes, and turning analysis into decisions.

• Turn complex product, customer, and risk data into clear insights, decision frameworks, and durable measurement systems for product, risk, and business partners
• Use AI tools and agent workflows to improve both the speed and quality of analytical work, from accelerating exploration and automating repetitive tasks to generating hypotheses and stress-testing conclusions
• Own end-to-end execution across analysis, metrics definition, experimentation, forecasting, visualization, and decision support
• Define and maintain measurement frameworks for Support and Risk Operations,  including contact demand forecasting, Staffing modeling, queue health and optimization.
• Partner with risk teams to evaluate model and policy performance, monitor cohorts, identify bias or drift, and connect risk decisions to product and business impact
• Design and analyze experiments, rollouts, and policy changes that shape customer access, repayment outcomes, and product growth
• Approach ambiguous Risk and Support questions from first principles, using statistical judgment to define the right cohorts, metrics, and decision criteria
• Communicate insights clearly to technical, product, and business stakeholders, including risk partners and senior decision-makers
• Lead technical direction and standards for the Block Data Science team - making and building consensus on key technical decisions, and creating reusable frameworks, measurement templates, and scalable tooling that remove complexity for others.
• Drive localized cross-team impact by connecting measurement and insights across Support and Risk Operations and partnering with senior stakeholders in product, engineering, and risk to align Data Science work with broader strategy.
• Mentor and grow the team by developing junior data scientists, fostering a culture of analytical rigor and psychological safety, and contributing to hiring through interviews and calibrations

• A bachelor's degree in statistics, data science, economics, computer science, or a similar quantitative field with 12+ years of experience in a relevant role OR
• A graduate degree in statistics, data science, economics, computer science, or a similar quantitative field with 6-8+ years of experience in a relevant role
• Advanced proficiency with SQL and experience building clear, decision-oriented data visualizations
• Strong product, analytical, and statistical judgment, including the ability to turn ambiguous product, customer, or risk questions into sound analyses, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and support decisions
• Experience using AI tools to improve the speed, quality, and durability of analytical work 

We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.