Lead Data Scientist, Brigit
$170-210k
Promoting sustainable financial health
Open for applications
Promoting sustainable financial health
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$170-210k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help everyday Americans build a brighter financial future.
Role
Who you are
- Advanced degree in data science, statistics, computer science, or related field
- 5+ years of experience doing data science (modeling + analysis)
- Proficiency in Python and in-depth understanding of SQL
- Competent in machine learning principles and techniques
- Experience in python, using industry standard modeling toolkits like sklearn, jupyterlab, pandas, matplotlib, statsmodels, etc
- Experience in writing complex SQL queries and the ability to put together multiple data sources together
- Ability to get the train data, train the model, do hyper parameter tuning, perform validation, run the A/B test, do performance monitoring and model monitoring
- Experience building classification and prediction models, testing them in a startup environment and iterating to improve their models
- Ability to work effectively and communicate ideas/code clearly in a cross functional team environment (Engineering, Product and Business teams)
- ML model deployment in production experience is a plus
- Technical presentation skills is a plus
- Experience working in B2C, marketplace, lending, or subscription oriented business is a plus
- Passionate self-starter who is always looking for ways to optimize, test, and improve
- Being able to operate in ambiguity, asking questions, leaning on your colleagues, and speaking up when necessary
- You are passionate about making a difference in people's lives through your work
What the job involves
- At Brigit we’re focused on giving the 100M Americans who live paycheck to paycheck access to more affordable financial services and getting them on the path to better financial wellness.
- As a Data Scientist on our team you’ll be responsible for building/improving/maintaining the most important models which focus on this:
- Identifying credit risk for our customers so that we can help more people in need when they need it
- Optimizing our marketing spend by predicting LTV for our customers
- Helping us reduce our overall churn by predicting customer churn and improving retention
- We have access to rich, structured data that we can use to derive insights and build complex models. In addition to supporting broad analytics use cases when needed, you will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams
- Build, test and roll out new underwriting and risk models to understand the risk of our customer base and improve access for our prospective customers by allowing us to take more calculated risks
- You’ll have ownership of the full modeling lifecycle and get to carry your changes all the way through to our decision process, getting to realize every bit of impact along the way
- Build, test and roll out other customer related models (such as Churn propensity and LTV prediction) which help us analyze and optimize our marketing and retention efforts
- Monitor the performance of the models in production and take appropriate actions when necessary
- Analyze how our customer base is shifting as we grow and pinpoint areas we can improve
- Help our existing engineering and business teams track their goals, supporting the BI function from time to time to time with ad-hoc data analytics
Our take
Brigit is an algorithm-based personal finance app that helps underserved financial customers maintain financial health. It offers a raft of protective services including cash bumps to fend off overdraft charges, budgeting tools, and interest-free emergency loans.
In spite of this financially-oriented spread, Brigit has no intention of expanding into neo-banking. This is smart, as it allows the company to focus on a broad range of banner services without stepping into the far more competitive digital banking sector. Brigit has successfully united these disparate features under a strong customer-forward and socially-impactful identity, which gives the company the freedom to expand its services in response to new banking trends without diluting its brand.
It means, too, that Brigit can complement new and legacy banking solutions, instead of competing for space. This careful positioning should shore Brigit up in a sector undergoing continual and swift change.
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back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"I am trusted to work within my scope (and beyond) to iterate as quickly as I'd like. Not only do I get to evolve in my current function, I am able..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2021
$35m
SERIES A
Jan 2020
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $110m
Company benefits
- Medical benefits - We offer top-quality health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and wellness) with options so you can select the plan that works best for you
- Generous paid time off - Take the time you want and need to recharge and live a fully balanced life
- Paid parental leave - Because we know there are no jobs harder than being a parent, we support our employees with paid parental leave
- Phone/wifi stipend - Whether you’re in a hybrid or remote role, we make sure our employees have what they need to work effectively outside of the office
- 401K - Choose from a wide range of plans to find the ones that suit your specific retirement plans and savings goals
- Snacks & more - Caffeine and a stocked kitchen keep us energized and Thursday lunch brings everyone together for a weekly nosh
Company values
- Fairness: Our founding principle is to look out for—not make a quick buck from—people in need
- Transparency: When it comes to finances, nobody likes surprises. With Brigit, there are no hidden costs, ever. Ever
- Simplicity: Finance is complicated enough. Our app is designed to not only be easy to use, but actually reduce stress
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Hamel Kothari
(CTO & CDO)Former software engineer at Palantir and Two Sigma. Graduated from Berkley with a BA in computer science.
Zuben Mathews
(CEO)Former founder and group head in Strategic Partnership at Deutsche Bank, and managing director at Infosys Technology. Founder of METROINDIA.COM. Graduated with a BA Economics from University of Chicago.
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