Data Architect, Lending Club
MarTech
$210-247k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Online personal loans
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Online personal loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$210-247k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the banking system to make credit more affordable and investing more rewarding. Its technology platform enables it to deliver innovative solutions to borrowers and investors.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of professional experience, including 8+ years of deep expertise in all these areas: big data, analytics technologies, and modern marketing data stacks
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent work experience
- Proven experience architecting and delivering complex data platforms that power marketing analytics, personalization, and funnel optimization
- Strong background in OLTP and OLAP systems at scale, with hands-on experience in Spark (7+ years), Databricks, and/or Snowflake
- Skilled in building and supporting MarTech ecosystems, including CDPs, audience activation, and attribution-ready data
- Experience applying machine learning to marketing or customer data use cases
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and modern data pipelines (Hive, Kafka a plus)
- Comfortable in Agile environments with CI/CD, source control, and automated testing best practices
- Passionate about big data, cloud, and enabling data-driven marketing strategies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Engineering, and Data), providing strong technical leadership and fostering innovation, collaboration, and accountability
- Curiosity, empathy, and a passion for data—delivering simple, elegant solutions that make a measurable impact
What the job involves
- At LendingClub, our mission is to empower individuals on their journey to better financial health
- As part of this mission, the Big Data and Analytics Platform team is building the foundation for a data-driven marketing ecosystem
- We are seeking a Marketing Data & Analytics Architect to lead the design and development of scalable, compliant, and high-impact marketing data infrastructure and analytics capabilities
- You will enable business teams to derive value from data for all marketing use cases
- You will enable the journey to leverage the cutting-edge analytics and data architecture for marketing at LendingClub
- You will enable LendingClub to fulfil our vision of being a data-driven company
- Define and evolve the MarTech reference architecture to support campaign execution, personalization, performance measurement, experimentation, and advanced analytics
- Architect data pipelines and analytics capabilities that enable full-funnel marketing measurement, including acquisition, retention, conversion, and ROI tracking
- Collaborate with marketing analytics and data science teams to develop predictive models and machine learning solutions that optimize Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI)
- Design instrumentation and data flows to capture KPIs such as marketing attribution, channel effectiveness, and campaign ROI
- Embed data governance, privacy compliance, scale, quality, and monitoring into the marketing data architecture to ensure secure and auditable data practices
- Build and maintain marketing data warehouses, marts, and self-service analytics tools that serve as a single source of truth for business stakeholders
- Standardize enterprise-wide marketing taxonomy and unify spend ingestion across agencies and platforms with finance-grade reconciliation
- Partner with Marketing, Risk, Legal, Security, and Compliance teams to align marketing data architecture with business goals, their needs, and regulatory requirements
- Architect infrastructure to support audience segmentation, A/B testing, recommendation engines, and real-time personalization
- Ensure scalability, data quality, rapid time-to-market, and cost-efficiency across marketing data systems
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including GenAI and marketing automation platforms, data and analytics eco-system, to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage
- Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the marketing tech stack to guide strategic decisions on build vs. buy
- Lead the design of marketing data flow architecture and data modelling to enable analytics by channels, networks, segments, products, campaigns, cohorts, and eligibility to meet or exceed our performance goals
- Hold yourself accountable for LendingClub’s origination targets
- Ensure that the modern data and analytics stack enable ad-hoc analysis, observability, reports, feeds, and dashboards for marketing
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements to achieve automation, optimization, reduction of cost and improvement in time to delivery of marketing data products
- Evangelize will evangelize the modern data and analytics stack across all marketing business units in LendingClub
Our take
Lending Club is a digital bank offering personal loans, auto loan refinancing, and debt consolidation to help individuals manage their finances. It provides flexible loan terms and competitive rates for a variety of needs, as well as high-yield saving and cash-back checking accounts, designed to help customers grow their money.
Focusing on digital solutions, Lending Club removes traditional brick-and-mortar branches, passing the savings on to customers through low fees and better rates. Connecting borrowers with investors in a marketplace model and offering fast loan approvals and competitive interest rates. And it's working, as the platform boasts over 5M members.
To bolster this success, the company acquired Tally Technologies' intellectual property (IP) in a strategic move to enhance its credit management services. By integrating Tally's technologies, Lending Club is set to strengthen its offerings and further improve customer engagement for a future of growth in the digital banking space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2014
$65m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2013
$57m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $332m
Company benefits
- Untracked vacation for salaried employees, which means take it when you need it, and generous paid time off for hourly team members
- A hybrid work model that balances in-office and work from home
- Leading health and safety protocols related to COVID, including complimentary at-home testing kits from Cue Health for those coming to the office
- Up to 16 weeks paid leave for new parents, plus a fully paid, phased return-to-work policy for qualified leaves
- Mothers Rooms and hospital-grade pumps in every LC office
- Generous and varied mental health benefits
- Wellness program with cash incentives — earn up to $75 per month for being active
- Paid volunteer time and donation matching
- Onsite gym, locker room, bike room, and fitness classes (depending on location)
- Café with our own in-house barista
- Stocked pantries with healthy snacks and drinks
- Technology-forward and collaborative office spaces
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Scott Sanborn
(CEO)Previously held leadership positions as the Chief Revenue Officer for publicly traded eHealth Insurance, President of RedEnvelope, Inc., and SVP at the Home Shopping Network. Joined LendingClub in 2010 and has worked as Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operations Officer, and President before becoming the CEO in 2016.
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