Senior Staff, Decision Scientist, Risk
Flex - USA
Posted Jun 7, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
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- Non-birth-parent leave
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- Family-building benefits
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- Fertility benefits: Not verified
- Adoption assistance: Not verified
- Surrogacy assistance: Not verified
- Mental health support
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- Relocation assistance
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- Childcare support
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- Verification
- Not verified checked Jun 7, 2026
- Salary
- $190K-$240K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- 401(k) match
- Reported from DOL Form 5500 industry filing (not employer-specific)
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $111,944 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +13.7% - Much faster than average
92% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Senior Staff, Decision Scientist, Risk USA Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It's hard to believe that it's 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We're here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team? About the role As a Senior Staff Decision Scientist on the Risk & Decision Science team, you'll own the strategy and optimization of Flex's payment decisioning stack. This includes authorization optimization, PSP routing, retries/failover logic, and cost vs. risk tradeoffs across millions of dollars of payment volume. This is a high-impact, senior individual contributor role where you'll work at the intersection of payments, product, engineering, finance, and data to improve core platform economics and customer experience. If you've worked on payments platforms, risk systems, credit, or large-scale decisioning at companies like Stripe, PayPal, Square, Adyen, Affirm, or big tech, this role is very much in that vein. What you'll do Own and evolve Flex's payment decisioning and routing strategy across multiple PSPs Use data to increase authorization rates while
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