Senior Data Scientist, Home LendingNew$185K–$211K
The opportunity
The Wealthfront Data Science Team utilizes our rich financial and behavioral data to influence key product and marketing decisions, as well as to safeguard our client’s information and assets. The team draws from backgrounds in Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics, and Natural Sciences.
What you'll do
Build predictive models for potential purchasers or refinancers in our client: base to enable efficient and targeted outreach
Analyze user behavior in web-based home lending tools and flows to identify: patterns and optimize these experiences
Interpret and contextualize statistical results for business stakeholders and: help translate numbers into recommendations
What they're looking for
- A Master's or a PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics,: Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics or Natural Sciences, with 6+ years of prior experience in a Data Science role. Exceptions to these requirements may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills and a record of partnering: across organizations to sharpen project requirements. Sometimes this includes re-framing the original request to solve a more general problem with similar effort.
- Hands-on mathematical and software engineering skills to execute on complex projects.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Desire and ability to mentor junior Data Scientists within the team by: exemplifying math, engineering and technical communication skills.
