Senior Partner Decision Scientist

Credit Karma•Charlotte, NC

About The Position

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City. Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC Credit Karma’s fast growing Partner Decision Science team is seeking an experienced Data Scientist or Data Analyst with Credit Risk Modeling support background. This role will allow a motivated individual to be an early member of a growing team who will work closely with our bank and Fintech partners to build and optimize targeting models on the Credit Karma platform. By doing this they will drive significant revenue for Credit Karma and its partners, while providing approval certainty for consumers. This is one of the most significant strategic initiatives at Credit Karma that will change the trajectory of the company and its industry.

Requirements

Degree (Bachelors or Masters) in Statistics, Math, Data Analytics or a relevant quantitative discipline
Approximately 5 years of experience in statistical analysis, modeling, or data analysis, preferably related to one or more of: credit and underwriting, customer segmentation and marketing analytics, or customer valuations
Minimum of 3 plus years of experience building, implementing, or utilizing complex models in a financial risk / data science environment
Experience with consumer credit data

Nice To Haves

Strong knowledge of Python, SQL, or similar industry standard tools used for large-scale data analysis and modeling.
Experience and/or interest in machine learning techniques
Experience interfacing with teams at Financial institutions

Responsibilities

Be the critical bridge between banking / fintech partners and the Credit Karma data science platform. Help some of the biggest financial institutions in the country work with the CK modeling platform and meet all data requirements for banking / fintech partners
Work hand-in-hand both with the internal data science teams, as well as partner risk science teams to integrate and build decision science models on the CK platform
Build strong relations with data science teams at financial institutions, ranging from VP-level executives all the way to hands-on data scientists
Thoroughly understand the capabilities of the Credit Karma machine learning platform, and help drive requirements and directly enhance Karma s capabilities
Optimize and guide the partner model building and analytics process, in order to achieve optimal results. Coach partner risk teams on machine learning capabilities provided by the CK platform, providing advocacy for partners within Credit Karma and vice versa