What do we do?Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 6000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. The role: We are looking for a Head of Data Science to build Paddle's data science capability from the ground up. Our Merchant of Record model gives us a data position no PSP or billing provider has: subscription and pricing context alongside granular payment-outcome data, across thousands of software businesses. This role exists to turn that into economic value by putting machine learning and agentic systems into production.The mandate is deliberately narrow and deliberately ambitious: data science at Paddle owns automated decisioning inside the product — traditional machine learning and agentic systems alike — not decision-support analytics.We have a long list of candidate opportunities than we can fund, spanning payment performance and revenue recovery, sales and marketing operations, growth and monetisation intelligence, and risk, trust and compliance. We have a working hypothesis about which of these pays back first, and we'll share it — but part of the job in your first quarter is to pressure-test it, size the alternatives yourself, and tell us where to start.This is a founding role, and for the first few quarters it is a building role more than a managing one. You'll be the only person in the function: doing the analysis, engineering the features, training and evaluating the models or agents, taking the first system live with our engineering teams — and then operating it, answerable for its uptime, its drift and its numbers. Once the fir