Senior Product Data Scientist, Propel
$165-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
Financial services and products for low-income Americans
Open for applications
Financial services and products for low-income Americans
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$165-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build modern, respectful, effective technology that helps low-income Americans improve their financial health.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of startup experience
- Fluency in SQL and either Python or R
- Experience leading research efforts on product and system opportunities
- Exceptional skills at converting questions into data analysis and insight, with just the right level of complexity
- Quantitative mindset, strong at working with probability distributions, causal inference, cost-benefit analysis
- Experience with a startup environment or the ability to operate effectively when faced with ambiguity
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences and topics
- Eagerness to learn new techniques, strong prioritization skills
- Passion for making a difference in the lives of our users
- Nice to have: Experience with or knowledge of government services, particularly safety net services like SNAP, WIC, TANF, SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, Section 8
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Data Scientist to help drive impact, starting with our ads platform which connects low-income users to significant financial savings, including government-subsidized discounts they may not be aware of
- As a Data Scientist, you’ll work on meaningful and complex technical problems that have a positive impact on our users’ lives
- Contribute to software systems used by millions of low-income Americans, helping to put dollars back in their pockets
- Drive change through impactful data analysis and investigations
- Support machine learning algorithms that improve how ad content is matched to users, how customer ad budget is spent, and how ad impressions are distributed. Contributions could be through analysis and data insight, but can also include production code
- Maintain reliable data pipelines to ensure trustworthy data
- Help Data Analysts and Customer Success Managers make their processes efficient and valuable, serving as our resident expert in Marketplace data
- Effectively communicate with team members during projects, code review, etc
- Contribute to building our data science culture and processes as we continue to scale
- Collaborate on deciding on the right projects, building great solutions, and helping your team succeed
Our take
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits are used by millions of Americans, but the scheme has long been hampered by a lack of innovation or digitization. Propel offers instant access to balances, plus local offers and discounts, and support in finding work. It also provides a free debit card that can be used for everyday shopping, bills, savings, and online transactions.
Formerly known as Food Stamps, SNAP benefits can be a hassle to use, with some recipients still having to make phone calls to gauge their budget. Propel's users can keep track of and manage their government-provided SNAP benefits from its mobile app, Providers, enabling low-income Americans to make use of this critical safety net more easily.
The Providers app has been used by upwards of 5 million of a potential roughly 40 million people who use SNAP benefits, showcasing both the current reach of the company, and how much space it has in which to grow. With a presence in all 50 states, as well as some territories, Propel raised $50 million in 2022 which it is using to expand its debit card services, widening its reach to a growing customer base.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2022
$50m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$16.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $84.5m
Company benefits
- Generous vacation policy
- Unlimited sick days
- Healthcare and a 401k
- 16 week parental leave
- New tech tools
- Remote first
Company values
- Listen first
- We're doers, not philosophers
- Embrace a growth mindset
- Light up at our mission
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
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Leadership
Jimmy Chen
(CEO)Having studied at Stanford, they worked for 2 years as a LinkedIn Associate Product Manager, before spending a further 2 in the same position at Facebook. They left to co-found Propel in May 2014.
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