Senior Director of Data Science

Summary

Join Best Egg's Data Science team as a leader, spearheading a team dedicated to developing cutting-edge AI/ML solutions for our consumer lending platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, translate insights into actionable recommendations, and deploy solutions into production. This hands-on role requires a minimum of 10 years of data science experience, including 7 years in credit modeling and 3 years leading teams. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills, a deep understanding of AI/ML techniques, and experience with cloud-based computing. Best Egg offers a competitive salary, annual and LTIP bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package including retirement plans, generous paid time off, health insurance, and various other perks.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years working experience in the field of Data Science
• Minimum of 7 years experience developing credit models in support of credit lending decisions. Experience fintech type organizations a plus
• Minimum of 3 years experience leading and developing data science teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Must demonstrate strong ability to collaborate within cross functional teams, serve and influence various stakeholders/leaders. Experience and capable of public speaking a plus
• Foundational understanding of the technical aspects of Data Science – knowledgeable in statistics, machine-learning techniques, experimental designs, and know how to obtain and use big data (structured and un-structured)
• Experience in building and deploying AI/ML stacks via CI/CD and pipeline orchestration tools in cloud production environments/containers in ECS/EKS required – including data pipeline, CDK/SDK, Cloudformation/Terraform, and familiar with AWS services and various ML/Deep Learning tools
• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or other quantitative major. Masters or PhD is preferred
• Proficient in writing your own SQL and Python including machine-learning libraries (panda, scikit-learn, matplotlib, etc.). Experience using Amazon AWS cloud-based computing stack a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead a data science team supporting our credit strategy organization
• Accountable for recruitment, development, and scoping new roles as well as managing headcount requests and budgets
• Collaborate with Chief Credit officer and credit strategy team to prioritize capabilities, initiatives and identify risks and opportunities for pending initiatives
• Liaise with Capital, Product and Technology teams on capabilities, solutions, and provide infrastructure roadmap for related data science priorities
• The ideal candidate will work with a high sense of urgency and be willing to roll up their sleeves and be hands-on as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience fintech type organizations a plus
• Experience and capable of public speaking a plus
• Experience using Amazon AWS cloud-based computing stack a plus

Benefits

• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
• Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
• Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
• Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!
• $190,000 - $240,000 a year
• In addition to semi-monthly salary payments, this position is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance. Yearly incentive bonus target 30% of base salary. This role is also eligible for an LTIP bonus