Data Scientist, Kikoff
$212-469k
+ Offers equity
More information about location
Personal finance and credit building platform
Be an early applicant
Personal finance and credit building platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$212-469k
+ Offers equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide refreshingly fair, effective, and simple pathways to meet your financial goals.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- A minimum of 2 years of work experience in analytics
- Expert knowledge of SQL and experience with Python
- Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression, decision trees
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A humble collaborative can-do attitude and natural curiosity
What the job involves
- As a Data Scientist at Kikoff, you work closely with cross functional teams incl. Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Marketing, Operation
- By applying your technical skills, analytical mindset, and product intuition, you will help our customers improve their financial security
- You will use data to identify and solve product development’s biggest challenges
- Product leadership: use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, set goals, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to our customers
- Analytics: develop hypotheses and employ a diverse toolkit of rigorous analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them
- Communication and influence: convince and influence your partners by telling clear data stories
Our take
Having a solid credit history is a fundamental building block for financial health and there is a large market of people looking to build or rebuild their credit scores. Many adults in the US have scores below 680 and some cannot be scored due to a lack of credit history. Roughly half of all American adults have subprime credit or no credit whatsoever, and it’s safe to say there is a demand for credit products tailored to beginners and builders.
Kikoff is a credit-building platform aimed at Millennials and GenZ. Their signature product helps consumers without a credit history to positively influence several key aspects of their credit score. This includes their payment history, how much they owe, and the length of their account history.
Kikoff's goal is to help customers across their entire financial journeys and create a simple and positive banking relationship: from stabilizing cash flows to accumulating savings, and building towards long-term goals such as a mortgage. The company plans to build out its technology and team, across all function areas, to bring new products to market in the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance!
- Stock Options
- Generous unlimited vacation policy to help you recharge
- Regular team building events to help you get to know the Kikoff team and soo much more!
Company values
- Extreme ownership
- Clear communication
- A strong sense of craftsmanship
- The desire to create lasting work and work relationships
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Cynthia Chen
(CEO)An experienced Chief Revenue/Risk Officer, Cynthia has worked at OnDeck, LendingHome and Figure. Co-founded Figure in 2018, and Kikoff in 2019.
Christophe Chong
(CTO)Experience as a Software Engineer at Facebook from 2016-2019, and Head of Growth at Lime between 2018-2019. Co-founded Kikoff in 2019.
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