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Senior Data Scientist

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San Francisco, CA
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San Francisco, CA
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As a Senior Data Scientist, you will analyze data to shape business strategy, build models, and create dashboards to drive success in small business lending and banking.
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The Role:

We are seeking a full-stack Senior Data Scientist who will help shape business strategy through data-driven insights for SoFi’s Small Business Lending & Banking business. This is an exciting role for someone to make a direct impact on a new product strategy based on deep consumer insights and a passion for helping small business owners thrive.

Success in this role hinges on your technical aptitude, quantitative abilities, and business acumen: you know how to plow through data with SQL/Python/R/Tableau, surface insights using math/statistics and measure the business impact using efficiency/conversion/profit metrics. You treat stakeholders as a partnership – you are there at each step of the way and you know that we only succeed if we succeed together.

What you’ll do:

  • Work with amazing product and business managers to identify strategic opportunities, measure KPIs to craft compelling stories, make data-driven recommendations, and drive informed actions. 
  • Own end-to-end product analytics workflow including formulating success metrics, socializing them across the organization, and creating dashboards/reports. 
  • Act as a curator of data by defining, instrumenting, and tracking necessary analytics of our products by working cross functionally with engineering and product teams. 
  • Craft, analyze, and present customer behavior metrics, such as funnel conversion, user churn, invest features engagement, product LTV, and cross-sell metrics. Work with product and marketing partners to design tests to improve these metrics. 
  • Working with seasoned business leaders to understand revenue, costs and profitability across various revenue streams within SMB
  • Build self-service dashboards to enable others in the organization to leverage your work. 
  • Analyze and perform statistical analysis on data that underlies SMB’s product experiments.
  • Build exploratory & predictive models to help decision makers understand customer behaviors and segmentation
  • Run significance tests and continuously discover trends in customer behavior to inform decision making with a high level of confidence

What you’ll need:

  • Bachelor’s degree required (Masters preferred) in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or quantitative field. 
  • 4+ years of relevant work experience 
  • Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills 
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills
  • Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance 
  • High EQ with ability to influence outcomes and communicate technical content to general audiences 
  • Ability to communicate assertively and succinctly therefore being able to influence stakeholders to make data driven decisions. 
  • Strong programming skills in SQL, Python and proficiency in Tableau
  • Experience with experimentation and hypothesis testing
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, with strong attention to detail
  • Strong relationship building and collaborative skills

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in a financial organization
  • Experience with using DBT/Airflow to build Data Pipelines in Snowflake
  • Experience in working with nascent products (growth focus)
  • Interest in advanced machine learning or generative AI


Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location. 

 

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.

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Top Skills

Airflow
Dbt
Python
R
Snowflake
SQL
Tableau

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