Senior Director - Data Science

February 22

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Best Egg is a lending company that offers a range of financial products and services, including personal loans, debt consolidation, credit card refinancing, and secured loans using vehicle equity or homeowner discounts. The company emphasizes hassle-free and fast financial service, with an online platform that allows users to manage their accounts, view offers, and access various financial health resources. Best Egg aims to support customers in building a brighter financial future by offering competitive rates and personalized loan terms. Best Egg loans are facilitated through partnerships with banks and are available in various amounts, with flexible terms and conditions.

Personal Lending • Debt Consolidation

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Best Egg is the leading financial confidence platform that provides flexible solutions to real-life challenges for people with limited savings. • We leverage real-time customer insights and data science to connect more people with the right products for their financial needs. • Our offers include a growing suite of products such as personal loans, a credit card, and flexible rent, which are complemented by a suite of financial health tools to help customers make smart financial decisions and stay on track, so they can be money confident no matter what life throws at them. • Our culture and values inspire our employees and customers to embrace Best Egg. • We are committed to championing a culture of inclusiveness and diversity of thought, and we focus on providing a safe, flexible, and collaborative work environment. • If you are inspired by inspiring others, Best Egg is the place for you. • Best Egg promotes diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. • Data is at the heart of everything we do. Join a Data Science team working at the cutting edge within our industry and constantly advancing our AI/ML practice. • Enjoy the stability of a profitable, award winning fintech and challenge yourself with plenty of growth and upward mobility within a data rich environment. • We are seeking a Data Science leader to lead our Data Science team.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years working experience in the field of Data Science • Minimum of 7 years experience developing credit models in support of credit lending decisions. Experience fintech type organizations a plus • Minimum of 3 years experience leading and developing data science teams • Strong written and verbal communication skills. Must demonstrate strong ability to collaborate within cross functional teams, serve and influence various stakeholders/leaders. Experience and capable of public speaking a plus. • Foundational understanding of the technical aspects of Data Science – knowledgeable in statistics, machine-learning techniques, experimental designs, and know how to obtain and use big data (structured and un-structured). • Experience in building and deploying AI/ML stacks via CI/CD and pipeline orchestration tools in cloud production environments/containers in ECS/EKS required – including data pipeline, CDK/SDK, Cloudformation/Terraform, and familiar with AWS services and various ML/Deep Learning tools. • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or other quantitative major. Masters or PhD is preferred. • Proficient in writing your own SQL and Python including machine-learning libraries (panda, scikit-learn, matplotlib, etc.). Experience using Amazon AWS cloud-based computing stack a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program • Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short- term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays • Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options • Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts • Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs • Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!