Staff Data Scientist, SoFi
$162-247.5k
Mobile & online personal finance services
Job no longer available
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$162-247.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree required (Masters preferred) in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or quantitative field
- 8+ years of relevant work experience in growth or marketing capacity, with demonstrated experience developing and analyzing marketing campaigns
- Industry experience in Banking, Brokerage, Credit Card and Marketing Analytics highly desired
- Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical 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
- Strong programming skills in SQL, Python and proficiency in Tableau
- Experience with using Airflow to build Data Pipelines in Snowflake
- Experience with experimentation and hypothesis testing
- Knowledge of statistical modeling or machine learning is preferred but not a requirement
- Ability to work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, with strong attention to detail
- Strong relationship building and collaborative skills
What the job involves
- Drive highly visible, strategic projects that are imperative to the SIPS business’s short term as well as long term goals
- Translate business goals into actionable tactics and campaigns informed by data that deliver short term results and build foundational platform for long term growth
- Analyze marketing spend, customer journey, acquisition funnel and product engagement data to generate business insights, inform marketing strategy, and unlock potential value
- Design test plans to achieve business outcomes, and partner across other functional groups like Marketing, Business, Operations, Engineering for implementation
- Support partners with ad hoc analysis requests that come up during normal course of business
- Synthesize data into succinct presentations that influence senior management decision making
- Work with amazing product marketing and business managers to identify strategic opportunities, measure KPIs to craft compelling stories, make data-driven recommendations, and drive informed actions
- Own comprehensive daily, weekly, monthly reporting of all member engagement KPIs & build the right dashboards to track and communicate performance
- You stay focused on what’s best for the company – sometimes that requires being flexible, other times it requires being steadfast
Our take
SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.
Its goal, to cover all the financial bases, sets it apart from many of the traditional banks and even some of their digital competitors, such as Avant, which has chosen to focus on providing credit alternatives. Although it is operating in a competitive market with a lot of big players such as Monzo, Revolut, and Starling, the company has managed to raise huge amounts of funding to support its rapid expansion.
SoFi has focussed on global expansion, moving outside the US, and has made a series of acquisitions to support this - including a Hong Kong-based investment app called 8 Securities. After going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger in June 2021, the company has continued to evolve and release more mission-oriented services into its roster, and strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has sold over $15 billion in personal loan collateral and continues to strengthen its offering.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$369.9m
LATE VC
May 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Flexible time off
- Fertility and family planning options
- Free financial classes
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Anthony Noto
(CEO)Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy after being a telecommunications officer and captain in the U.S. Army. Has worked as Head of Gobal Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Goldman Sachs, been the COO of Twitter, and also the CFO of the National Football League.
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