Senior Data Scientist, Home Lending

About the role

The Data Scientist in this role will be primarily embedded within Wealthfront's new and quickly-growing Home Lending area. The vision of this area is to enable our clients to grow their wealth through leveraged home ownership.

Responsibilities

• 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

Expectations

• Demonstrate a high degree of independence, proactivity, and curiosity - be the first to identify opportunities
• Formulate project plans with clear rationale, candidate approaches and milestones
• Communicate clearly and effectively with partners both within and outside the home lending area, through written documents, presentations, and in-person or video meetings
• Identify key initiatives for the Home Lending area and champion the role of Data Science within these initiatives
• Employ a high degree of mathematical rigor and best practices for software development
• Enhance overall Data Science team execution through hands-on help, design feedback and peer review
• Depending on experience and interest, management of more junior Data Science team members

Requirements

• 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

Pay & benefits

• Estimated annual salary range: $185,000 - $211,000 USD plus Equity
• Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more