Director of Data Science, MoneyLion
+ Bonuses and equity
4 days a week in office
The all-in-one mobile banking experience
Job no longer available
The all-in-one mobile banking experience
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Bonuses and equity
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give everyone the power to make their best financial decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Revenue focused mindset with a strong focus on quantitative performance optimization and practical applications of data science in a live business environment
- Excellent communicator - ability to speak fluently with leadership as well as individual contributors in both technical and business domains
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate effectively with data scientists, engineers, and other stakeholders to achieve mutually successful outcomes
- A team player with a passion for both data products and predictive modeling, with a strong desire to grow and develop their team and themselves in these areas
- Comfortable with a fast-paced environment and being scrappy while balancing execution with perfection
- Experience with building and deploying real time ML models for business critical applications
- Experience working in analytics and data science, in particular working with data warehouses, analytics tools, specialized machine learning observability tooling and environments
- Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS preferred but not required), and has exposure to data science and software engineering best practices and culture (CI/CD, version control, continuous experimentation, etc)
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, is preferred
- Minimum 6-10 years experience working within the data science and/or AI space
- Minimum 3-4 years managing a high performing, client facing data science team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Director of Data Science to lead our Data Science team within the Marketplace division of MoneyLion.
- In this role, you will take ownership of a team that builds and optimizes high revenue, client facing predictive pricing and recommendation models.
- You will work closely with our Engineering and Research leads to streamline and optimize our model and data product development processes, own model performance and results within the marketplace, and build long term strategy for cutting edge model and data product development
- This is a unique opportunity to work with a high impact team that builds innovative data products that are at the edge of the leading consumer financial marketplace in the industry
- Manage a team of data scientists, analysts and machine learning engineers, ensuring project alignment with business goals and timelines and supporting sprint management and execution
- Take ownership of a suite of high-revenue, real time pricing, filtering and recommendation models that are at the core of our consumer financial marketplace, with a relentless focus on performance optimization and revenue generation for the business
- Work closely with the technical leads of the Research and Engineering pods of the team to develop strategy and tactical planning for future growth around model testing, deployment, rollout, observability and optimization
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and account management teams to successfully solve ongoing challenges and opportunities in our marketplace business
- Develop and optimize efficient operations, effective communication cycles and best practices for the team in order to build an effective and high performance team culture
- Provide coaching and professional development opportunities to enhance team skills and career growth
- Act as a thought leader in data science and AI within the organization, influencing strategy at the leadership level
Our take
Managing our financial lives can be a challenge. From banking to investing, there are a plethora of institutions, products and services to choose from in the market.
Whilst legacy banks have traditionally been focused on a specific service within the financial industry, MoneyLion has built a full-service digital platform to deliver mobile banking, lending, and investment solutions. From its app, users can get a complete overview of their financial lives.
It is a neobank on the rise. Since its launch in 2013, MoneyLion has signed up over 14M users, doubled its revenue between 2020-2021 and acquired a stake in digital asset settlement provider Zero Hash, adding crypto-based investing to their platform.
However, this is a highly competitive industry and one that in the first quarter of 2023, was highly volatile. MoneyLion also has big competition against the likes of Chime, Revolut, and RobinHood. Whilst competitive and operating within an evolving space, MoneyLion is continuing on a strong path through its marketplace strategy, matching members with partner brands and saw an increase in revenue through 2023.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Jun 2018
$30m
LATE VC
Total funding: $199m
Company benefits
- Office snacks & coffee
- Daily office lunch
- Medical benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Employee discounts
- Unlimited paid time off
- Parental leave
- Company match 401(k)
- Employee referral bonuses
- Equity grants
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dee Choubey
(Founder)Dee worked at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, and Barclays for a combined 10 years. He left his role in Investment Banking at Barclays having founded MoneyLion in September 2012.
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