Senior Data Scientist, Rocket Money
Full Stack
$160-200k
+ Bonus
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
Open for applications
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$160-200k
+ Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people to live their best financial lives.
Role
Who you are
- We have a strong preference for team players that are comfortable collaborating across teams, know how to shape strategy with data, and can deliver solutions within engineering teams
- You are a team player - collaboration and communication are a first instinct and key tool for getting stuff done. You continually seek feedback on your work
- You know how to work at a strategic level - you can collaborate with stakeholders to define new projects and initiatives for yourself and others
- You know how to deliver products incrementally - doing the simple thing first, finding and measuring signal, and iterating to build better user experiences
- Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills. Documenting, soliciting feedback, and securing alignment among stakeholders is second nature
- Excellent software engineering skills. You can contribute up and down the application stack to deliver data products to users. Evidenced experience working with engineering teams to build software is an absolute must
- You have 6+ years of professional experience working in a data science capacity. You know your way around databases, data warehouses, and how to engineer backend machine learning and data science systems. Bonus points if you have experience integrating data products into application front ends. You are equally adept at hacking together proof of concepts and working within engineering teams to build scalable, durable systems
- You embrace the player/coach mindset. You take care to mentor and develop others when leading projects. You’ve helped junior data scientists grow in their careers and you always level up the technical skills of those around you
- You care just as much about why you're solving a problem as the solution. You always want a deep understanding of context and business impact. You are a data scientist first but an expert analyst when necessary
- Deep experience in several of the following in a professional capacity: customer segmentation and personalization, time series modeling, natural language processing, traditional classification/regression problems, design and implementation of experiments, recommendation systems, building generative AI applications in consumer software
- You find yourself building tools to help others solve their problems and follow a philosophy of continuous improvement and automation
- You want to continue to grow and learn. You are excited by hard problems and big challenges
- Experience in fintech, banking, or finance is a plus
What the job involves
- Data Scientists at Rocket Money further our mission by building data products that deepen customer relationships with our many financial products
- Data Scientists also support growth operations by designing ML driven personalization experiences in onboarding
- Build new, machine learning powered user-facing features and experiences in deep collaboration with engineering, product, and design teams. Use your expertise in ML system and model design to delight our customers with new user experiences. Work with engineering teams to build software to deliver new experiences to Rocket Money’s customers
- Optimize to continuous product feedback loops - you understand that data science is the practice of a continuous lifecycle of measurement, analysis, modeling, and hypothesis testing. You understand how to build, test, and deliver user-facing data science products in an incremental way
- Help develop the next version of Autopilot and Budgets. Ensure members have money in the right place at the right time for their near and long term goals. Warn them when they do not
- Uncover and exploit relationships between customers’ subscriptions, purchase, and transaction data as you build personalized product experiences and power ever more accurate customer segmentation, propensity, and affiliate targeting models
- Design and conduct experiments to estimate the impact of new products, customer messaging, and marketing. You know how to use experimentation to build the strategic case for more tailored ML product experiences
- Become a subject matter expert in your area of specialty and be responsible for leading projects from start to finish - making key decisions on both implementation and scope while balancing technical and business goals
- Work collaboratively in cross-functional teams to build new products and services
- Become an expert on our members. Understand their needs and financial goals. Work with product to define strategy and engineering teams to create software and build features that help our members build better financial lives
- Use your expertise in ML system and model design to aid product delivery, both internal and external
- Be a steward of good instrumentation and experimental design - designing analyses, models, and products in a way that is measurable, testable, repeatable, and robust. You will advocate for experimental approaches in everything that we do
- Build internal tooling that improves the data science and ML product implementation - help accelerate the work of others on engineering and data teams
- Maintain a high technical bar - participate in code reviews, contribute to product and technical design, maintain a high degree of quality in our production data, and mentor junior team members
Our take
Managing finances has become increasingly difficult in the last couple of decades, despite access to online banking and other financial apps. The mass of subscriptions, standing orders and utility bills the average American is subject to ultimately makes it difficult to assess and manage their finances within one place.
Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) provides a mobile application that includes a variety of tools that aim to simplify financial management. Tools include an automatic subscription tracker which aims to increase transparency and simplicity for canceling unwanted subscriptions, in addition to monthly spending analytics and budgeting plans.
Whilst there seems to be an app for just about every form of financial management, Rocket Money has taken much-needed action by unifying everything into a single app. Whilst the company initially focused on financial management tools, it's now branched out to more direct financial tools such as utility bill comparison services, autopilot saving and paycheque advance loans.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$45m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$17m
SERIES C
Total funding: $84m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Plans
- Competitive Pay
- Matching 401k
- Unlimited PTO
- Lunch daily
- Snacks & Coffee
- Commuter benefits
Company values
- Focus on members - We are in this to delight our members. We maintain constant communication to understand their needs and wants
- Take ownership - We are passionate and proactive. We take ownership and prioritize the long term, not just our team or task
- Get stuff done - Time and resources are a constraint. We can only win if we are faster, more effective, and more agile than others
- Prioritize data - We are humble about our opinions and use data across our teams to make better decisions. We have deep respect for the security & privacy of members
- Enjoy the journey - We believe we can do our best work by supporting each other and seeking together to make our work engaging, fun, and enjoyable
- Support personal growth - We are committed to using our experience at work to support our own and each other’s personal growth journeys
Company HQ
Downtown Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD
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Leadership
Haroon Mokhtarzada
(CEO & Chairman)They worked as CEO of Webs for 10 years, while studying at Harvard Law School, before working as VP at Vistaprint. They left this role in 2016 having co-founded Truebill (which later became Rocket Money) in November 2015.
Yahya Mokhtarzada
(CRO)Having studied at the University of Maryland, they worked in Business Development for Webs.com, SGN, appssavvy, and Nanigans for a combined 9 years. In November 2015 they co-founded Truebill.
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