Data Scientist, Product

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.

We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.

Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

About the role

Are you a data-driven powerhouse with a passion for unlocking the true potential of Fintech products? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where your analytical skills can make a significant impact? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Senior Analyst on our Growth Analytics Team!

At Self, we are revolutionizing the Credit industry by developing cutting-edge products that reshape the way people build Credit. As a Senior Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in our success by driving data-informed decision-making and accelerating our growth trajectory. 

As a Senior Analyst for the Growth team, you’ll be a key thought leader in accelerating growth. You will set the pace and analytical rigor of a team focused on helping more customers experience what Self has to offer. You don’t consider your job done until impact is created, and you pride yourself on your ability to create actionable insights.

You’ll utilize analytical capabilities, storytelling, and business acumen to inform our Growth roadmap. You’ll lead meetings with key leaders in Product, Analytics, Design, and Engineering to influence strategy through data driven recommendations.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and designers to identify growth opportunities and develop data strategies that drive product innovation and acquisition
• Lead efforts in experimentation, segmentation & funnel analysis, bringing products & features to market, report development, and predictive analytics to identify key opportunities to grow Self’s customer base
• Ability to leverage statistical concepts to draw actionable conclusions, make informed decisions, and effectively communicate insights to stakeholders
• Identify opportunities to create step-function growth by using advanced analytics techniques
• Be the Analytics owner for key metrics such as conversion rate, funnel completion rate, etc
• Communicate complex analytical findings clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing strategic decision-making at all levels of the organization. You should be able to see the forest through the trees.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, competition, emerging technologies, and best practices in growth analytics, ensuring that our team remains at the forefront of innovation
• Work with clickstream / event data to identify opportunities using tools/languages such as Redshift, Python, R, JupyterLab. This role can cover descriptive, diagnostic, proactive, and predictive analytics
• Own the development, reporting, and analysis of key KPIs to help us understand trends and behaviors that directly impact growth
• Promote data fluency and data-informed decision making throughout the organization
• Partner with Product, Marketing, and Engineering to ensure proper event tracking and measurement of features, experiments, and products

What’s exciting about the role

• You’ll have a direct impact on customers ability to improve their financial lives
• You’ll have the ability to help build new products and experiences that directly impacts millions of customers
• You’ll work directly with all levels of the business - including Executives, Product, Engineering, and Marketing
• You’ll work with a team dedicated to advancing analytics concepts and a culture that focuses on urgency, ownership, and collaboration
• You'll have the ability to execute autonomously
• You’ll have the chance to mentor teammates and build team culture
• You’ll learn how business decisions flow through the entirety of the business
• You’ll get to sharpen your existing technical, dashboarding, and communication skills

What we expect

• 5+ years of Analytics experience
• 4+ years experience with A/B testing and statistical analysis
• 4+ years of experience developing business reports using a tool such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or similar
• Strong expertise in data manipulation and analysis using SQL, Python, R, or similar.
• Basic working knowledge of data warehousing, data modeling, and machine learning
• Strong ability to communicate and link advanced analytical findings to practical business use-cases. 
• Experience working in an Agile development team and using source code management systems such as Git
• Experience with propensity modeling, lead scoring, cluster analysis, recommendation engines
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• A self-starter mindset, with a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment

About you

• You thrive in ambiguity and love building cohesive narratives 
• You have the ability to manage your own workload and are self-sufficient
• You thrive on analyzing data and uncovering new opportunities, and excited about driving growth through your insights
• You are very familiar with event tracking plans and event schema
• You are familiar with Product and Business level KPI’s
• You thrive on iterative analysis and driving data driven recommendations
• You understand the balance between investment and impact and can prioritize work appropriately
• You’re inquisitive and willing to try different things to get the answers that matter

Base salary is $135,000 - $150,000 annually.  Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.

Benefits and Perks:

We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too. 

Our perks include:

• Company Equity in the form of Stock Options
• Quarterly performance-based bonuses
• Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
• Flexible vacation policy
• Educational assistance
• Free gym membership
• Casual dress code
• Team building events and activities
• Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
• Paid parental leave 

Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.