Senior Data Scientist, SoFi
Member Insights
$128-240k
+ Bonus
Mobile & online personal finance services
Open for applications
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$128-240k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- This role demands a strong technical foundation (SQL, Python/R, Tableau, Statistics), a deep understanding of business metrics, A/B testing, causal inference analysis, and exceptional collaboration skills
- Bachelor’s degree required (Masters preferred) in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or quantitative field
- 4+ years of relevant work experience
- Strong programming skills in SQL, Python/R and proficiency in Tableau
- Experience with using DBT, Airflow to build Data Pipelines in Snowflake
- Experience with A/B Testing, quasi-experimentation for causal inference and insights
- Experience with data mining, descriptive analytics, defining KPIs, machine learning, statistical modeling and predictive modeling concepts
- Demonstrate strong business acumen and curiosity with excellent communication and presentation skills with leadership
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team. You should be able to initiate and drive projects to completion
- Exceptional problem-solving skills
- Influence outcomes and communicate technical content to general audiences
- Work independently in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, with strong attention to detail and be a team player
- Prepare comprehensive data reports and share insights with stakeholders
What the job involves
- We're looking for a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to play a pivotal role in the Member Data Science team, responsible for driving Growth, Engagement, and Retention strategies. The Member Organization is the connective tissue at SoFi, we are dedicated to understanding our members and their behaviors to help them achieve financial independence and reach their goals
- As a Sr. Data Scientist, you'll use your expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning to uncover insights that will directly influence product strategy and revenue growth.
- This role is inherently cross-functional—you will work closely with engineering, product managers, lifecycle marketing, data science, design, operations, finance, risk, legal, compliance, and executive teams to set business objectives, define product strategy, prioritize features, and execute on them. This is an exciting role for someone to make a direct impact on the company's financial performance and customer experience
- Design and implement data collection and processing pipelines
- Develop and apply machine learning models to solve business problems
- Strong experience owning product analytics workflows including formulating success metrics, socializing them across the organization, and creating dashboards/reports
- Evaluate and interpret the results of data analysis
- Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Stay up-to-date on the latest data science techniques and technologies
- Build data pipelines to deploy production level datasets
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 them 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Put our member's interests first – if we take care of our members' interests, it will best serve our interests.
- Run after problems – we must build a culture of people who run after problems in order to ensure we execute with excellence and “things” do not fall through the cracks.
- Embrace diversity, everyone should feel welcome, included and able to contribute – diversity is a differentiator and our team should reflect society. We should continue to encourage and celebrate diversity.
- Get to the truth and make principle-based decisions – we can only make the best decisions if we have the right data, all of the perspectives, and if we align on the guiding principles.
- Make your footprint bigger than your foot – selfless acts are critical to elevate beyond the impact of our collective individual efforts.
- Do the right thing, if you're not sure, do the harder thing – our business is built on trust and integrity, which requires both adhering to the letter of the law and regulations and doing the right thing for the company and our members..
- Set ambitious goals, be gritty, be accountable - we must hold ourselves and others accountable for delivering our business objectives, for our culture, and for our member.
- Take care of other people and help them grow - our people are our greatest differentiator, if we take care of our people, they will take care of our members.
- Iterate, learn, innovate - we are all responsible for innovation and we must embrace data-driven decisions.
- Be SoFi missionaries - our products, our services, our brand, and our business must be durable over the long term to achieve our mission—be a missionary.
- Don’t forget to smile - our ambition is contagious: it makes us smile to see people inside and outside of SoFi succeed.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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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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