Data Science Manager, Lendable

US Products

Salary not provided

+ Equity.

SQL
Python
Mid level
London

More information about location

3 days a week in office

Lendable

Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform

Open for applications

Lendable

Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2CMarketplacePersonal financeLendingCustomer service

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Equity.

SQL
Python
Mid level
London

More information about location

3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

FintechB2CMarketplacePersonal financeLendingCustomer service

Company mission

To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.

Role

Who you are

  • Excellent technical skills in Python, SQL, and statistics
  • Extensive knowledge of the credit industry, including the products, data, typical ML applications, and related regulations
  • Hands-on experience across the model lifecycle from scoping and model development to deployment and monitoring
  • Successful track record of managing complex projects, with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Confident and effective communication both internally and externally

Desirable

  • Experience of managing data scientists
  • Experience in data engineering
  • Knowledge of software engineering principles

What the job involves

  • We are excited to be hiring a Data Science Manager (US Products) into our team
  • Lendable is the market leader in real rate risk-based pricing, offering consumers transparency and product assurance at the point of application
  • Data Science sits at the heart of this USP, developing the best in market credit risk models
  • You will directly report to the Head of Data Science (Catherine Chen) who is managing the data science team across UK and US products
  • You will manage a team of 2 experienced and self-sufficient data scientists who are dedicated to US products
  • Although this role will be working closely with our US products, it will be based in London and follow our UK working hours
  • The data science team develops proprietary behavioural models combining state of the art techniques with a variety of data sources that inform market-facing underwriting and pricing decisions, existing customer management, and marketing
  • Data scientists work across the business in a multidisciplinary capacity to identify issues, translate business problems into data questions, analyse and propose solutions
  • We self-serve with all deployment and monitoring, without a separate machine learning engineering team
  • Design, implement, manage and evaluate experiments of products and services leading to constant innovation and improvement
  • Own the data science roadmap to contribute to business objectives and prioritise projects based on impact
  • Build trust and influence a diverse range of leaders and stakeholders
  • Drive many exciting data science projects from both strategic level and tactical level
  • Research new data sources, advise on costs / benefits of introducing the data into lending decisions
  • Clearly communicate results to stakeholders through verbal and written communication
  • Share ideas with the wider team, learn from and contribute to the body of knowledge
  • Be a great mentor to a team of talented data scientists and the broader analytics community

Application process

  • Initial call with TA
  • Hiring Manager Call
  • Take home task
  • Task debrief and case study interview
  • Final interviews with Head of US, CRO and Head of Data Science

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Lendable competes with banks, other marketplace lenders, and consumer finance companies to provide loans to consumers, small businesses, and property developers. Last year the UK marketplace lenders loaned £7.3bn in total.

Lendable believes it can win in this crowded field due to its market-best customer service and its strong financials. Unlike Zopa, RateSetter, or Lending Works, their funding comes from institutional investors.

It originates and services the loans on behalf of institutional investors, but does not hold them on its own balance sheet.

Growing insolvencies will worry all marketplace lending platforms, but Lendable looks well placed to weather any credit storm given their substantial debt financing.

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40% female employees

72% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Challenging work

"At Lendable I'm in a position to make decisions and engineer solutions on a product that's worth billions and growing all of the time. This brings..."

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Mar 2022

$274.1m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Sep 2017

$6.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $283.9m

Company benefits

  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Onsite Yoga
  • Lunch cooked by onsite chefs 3 times a week
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities on Monday and Friday
  • Private Health Insurance (inclusive of dental and pre-existing conditions)
  • Share Options for all Employees
  • Regular team and company wide socials
  • Pension

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Martin Kissinger

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Studied Economics as an undergraduate at LSE before doing an MPhil at Oxford University. Worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rocket in Berlin.

Paul Pamment

(Co-Founder)

Studied Mathematics at Oxford University before taking up technical roles at a handful of startups.

Jakob Schwarz

(Co-Founder)

Worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and then BCG before founding Lendable.

Worked as the Deputy Editor at the Economist before joining Martin Kissinger to co-found Lendable!

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