Staff Decision Scientist

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2024 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Staff Decision Scientist to join our Risk and Decision Science team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping the design of a new credit product, developing its risk policy and launch strategy, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure its success. Your work will be central to managing financial risk, maximizing customer lifetime value (LTV), and driving long-term business growth.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with the product, engineering and Legal & compliance team and help shape the product strategy.
• Define and implement risk policies and strategies to support the product's launch.
• Create self-serving dashboards to closely track product KPIs, risk exposure and loss trends for easy consumption by key stakeholders 
• Leverage data-driven insights and experimentation to inform policy updates, drive continuous improvement to maximize customer LTV.
• Take full ownership of the product's success, ensuring its unit economics are optimized and sustainable for long-term growth.

Key qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant working experience.
• A graduate degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong proficiency in SQL along with experience using data visualization tools to present insights effectively.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and effectiveness in communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, self driven and have a strong sense of ownership

The national pay range for this role is $209,000 - $225,000 in base salary. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience aligned with Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

Life at Flex:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:

• Competitive pay
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) + company equity
• Unlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave 
• Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
• Free Flex subscription

 For full time non-US employees, we offer

• Competitive Pay
• Company Equity
• Unlimited PTO