Data Scientist, SmartAsset
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Financial information and advice software
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Financial information and advice software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people make smart financial decisions.
Role
Who you are
- The candidate will have a quantitative background, and past experience working collaboratively with business partners to deliver impactful data products
- Proficient in Python and SQL
- Strong data visualization and analysis skills (pandas, numpy, matplotlib, scikit learn, tensorflow, etc)
- Working experience with the development and deployment of predictive models, with an emphasis on time series and categorization models
- Strong statistical foundation
- Skilled in cross-team collaboration and in communicating technical ideas to a non-technical audience
- Experience with model development/deployment best practices (documentation, git, environments, unit tests...)
- An investigative journalist-type approach when it comes to getting answers to a problem
- Strong quantitative background, having either been a graduate of a data science bootcamp, or the holder of an undergraduate or graduate degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, physics, econometrics, or another related quantitative field
- 3 years of relevant working experience
Desirable
- Experience with ML services like AWS Sagemaker, DataBrew, Feature Store
- Experience in model deployment, and model monitoring (drift, performance, etc.)
- Experience with prototype-to-production code development
- Experience in working closely with data engineers
What the job involves
- As a Data Scientist you will develop and deploy machine learning models that will drive business decisions and improve user experience
- You will utilize your strong problem-solving skills, programming know-how, and business analytics to solve real-world problems at scale
- You will access and analyze a variety of data to perform descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, working closely with stakeholders from different teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, and Technology)
- You will be responsible for creating stable models that will run in a production environment
Our take
Management of personal finance is typically a practice fraught with pitfalls and risks. Tools, information, and professional advice to help manage money have subsequently become invaluable resources to many Americans.
SmartAsset serves as a resource cache and marketplace connecting consumers with financial advisors. This focus on digital resources is proving savvy, as trends in the advisory profession indicate more consumers are turning online for support and professional help. SmartAsset's approach therefore allows it to reach more than 100 million people each month.
SmartAsset has managed to modernize the process of locating clients for advisors - previously a slow and labour-intensive process - while also materially assisting its large number of low-income customers. This saw SmartAsset’s revenue grow by ten times over four years, and it seems likely to capitalize on a growing number of US citizens looking to manage their financial planning digitally.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Jun 2018
$28m
SERIES C
Total funding: $160.5m
Company benefits
- All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the contiguous US
- Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
- Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- FSA: Medical and Dependant Care
- 401K
- Equity packages for each role
- Time Off: PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave, Secondary Caregiver Leave
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
- Employee Resource Groups supporting our underrepresented communities
- Pet Insurance
- Home Office Stipend
Company HQ
Murray Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Carvin
(Founder & CEO)Michael's expertise is in financial decision-making. In the pre-SmartAsset days, Michael worked in private equity. They spent their time using financial models to help companies understand how to make better decisions.
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