Head of Credit, Aven
Office located in South Bay Area / Campbell, CA
Credit card that unlocks buyer's home equity
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Credit card that unlocks buyer's home equity
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in South Bay Area / Campbell, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide the lowest cost, most convenient, and most transparent access to capital.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly experienced, creative, and analytically rigorous individual to fill a Credit leadership role within Aven
- The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in credit management, risk analysis, and strategic decision-making, along with exceptional prior success in past roles
- 10+ years of experience in consumer credit modeling or risk management within a major bank or fast growing Neo-bank / Fintech
- Previously taken on this responsibility and have demonstrated and established your ability to shape the direction of credit trends in your portfolio
- Proficient at SQL and experienced in Python
- Deep understanding & experience in statistics, experiment design, and machine learning techniques
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or EE/ECE from a top tier institution
What the job involves
- The role will hold primary responsibility for effectiveness of predictive modeling and minimizing credit losses for our products
- Proficient in credit modeling
- Considered as a go-to-expert for deep insights as well as the first person to be signed up to solve new credit problems for their company
- Prolific at switching contexts and operating across the entire stack of work - from loan-level decisions to shipping credit models to engaging soundly with regulators and capital partners
- Built and deployed credit risk models to production environments
- Thrive in engaging with engineers, data architects, and DevOps colleagues
- Shipped models with step-change improvements in AUC/ROC/KS
Our take
Founded in 2019, Aven is a credit card provider that uses home equity to provide users with low interests rates on their credit cards (known as HELOC). The company prides itself on minimalism and speed (without hindering quality) - with users able to be approved in as little as fifteen minutes for one of its cards.
With its mobile friendly, fast app, Aven is a bit of a phenomenon in the credit card space. It is the first credit card to be created with the unlocking of home equity, and its “without frills” approach makes what can be quite a daunting and overwhelming process seem far more approachable for its customers.
Aven has had multiple successful funding rounds since it was founded, enabling it to expand operations and pursue its mission. A 2024 Series D fundraise saw the company reach Unicorn status, with next steps including the goal of expanding to all 50 states by 2025 and exploring new market categories in the future.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2024
$142m
SERIES D
Total funding: $142m
Company benefits
- Meaningful Company Equity - We believe that employees should have a meaningful stake in the company. Everyone should feel like an owner – because you are.
- Remote Friendly - To find the most extraordinary and diverse talent, we have supported remote work across roles. From the SF Bay Area to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Canada, Mexico, & Texas.
- Medical Insurance - All of our full-time employees get great medical, vision, dental. Coverage for family is available.
- Paid Time Off - In addition to 8 observed holidays, salaried team members have paid time off, vacation, and paid sick leave.
- Parental Leave - Being a parent and balancing family time is very important to us. We provide paid parental leave for the parent.
- Aven Card - Experience having your own Aven card. Get $100 per month and buy anything you want, on us.
Company values
- Customer First - We always serve the consumer first. We start & finish everything with this
- Sustainable - Our products must be sustainable for our customers, partners, and ourselves
- Minimalist - We are spartan in our products, our design, our code, our process, and our spending. Nothing extra
- Rational - We strive to be rational & minimise emotion during decision-making. We prefer to aim, then fire; think then act
- Fast - We move quickly & decisively. Speed leads to quality, so we invest in it. We aim to make every day faster than the last
- Confident - We value knowing your stuff and expressing it with confidence. We think confidence is a scientific term, not a measure of how loud you are
- Detailed - We believe the little things matter. We value diving deep to touch the bare metal of systems, processes, and ideas. That's where invention happens
Company HQ
Downtown, Burlingame, CA
Articles
Leadership
Sadi Khan
(Co-founder & CEO)Founder and President at HAUS. Former Director of Product Management at Facebook.
Murtada Shah
(Co-founder)Previously founded Serene Technologies after graduating University with a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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