The Role:
We are seeking a full stack Senior Data Scientist who will help shape business strategy and product development decisions through datadriven insights. This is an exciting role for someone to make a direct impact on new product strategy and revenue of SoFi supporting SoFis Invest product.The goal of this product is to simplify investing & make it more accessible to our members. The work spans across our Active Brokerage & Automated Investing products.
Success in this role hinges on your technical aptitude quantitative abilities and business acumen: you know how to plow through data with SQL/Python/R/Tableau surface insights using math/statistics/ML techniques and measure the business impact using efficiency/conversion/profit metrics. You treat stakeholders as a partnership you are there at each step of the way and you know that we only succeed if we succeed together.
What youll do:
- Work with amazing product and business managers to identify strategic opportunities measure KPIs to craft compelling stories make datadriven recommendations and drive informed actions.
- Own endtoend product analytics workflow including formulating success metrics socializing them across the organization and creating dashboards/reports.
- Act as a curator of data by defining instrumenting and tracking necessary analytics of our products by working cross functionally with engineering and product teams.
- Craft analyze and present customer behavior metrics such as funnel conversion user churn invest features engagement product LTV and crosssell metrics. Work with product and marketing partners to design tests to improve these metrics.
- Working with seasoned business leaders to understand revenue costs and profitability across various revenue streams within SoFi Invest.
- Build selfservice dashboards to enable others in the organization to leverage your work.
- Analyze and perform statistical analysis on data that underlies Invests product experiments.
- Build exploratory & predictive models to help decision makers understand customer behaviors and segmentation
- Run significance tests and continuously discover trends in customer behavior to inform decision making with a high level of confidence
- You stay focused on whats best for the company sometimes that requires being flexible other times it requires being steadfast.
What youll need:
- Bachelors degree required (Masters preferred) in Computer Science Math Physics Engineering or quantitative field.
- 4 years of relevant work experience
- Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills
- Exceptional problemsolving skills
- Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
- High EQ with ability to influence outcomes and communicate technical content to general audiences
- Ability to communicate assertively and succinctly therefore being able to influence stakeholders to make data driven decisions.
- Strong programming skills in SQL Python and proficiency in Tableau
- Experience with experimentation and hypothesis testing
- Ability to work in a dynamic crossfunctional environment with strong attention to detail
- Strong relationship building and collaborative skills
Nice to have:
- Experience with investment products such as active brokerages automated investing analyst rating providers etc. (B2C investment products)
- Experience in a financial organization
- Experience with using DBT/Airflow to build Data Pipelines in Snowflake
- Experience in working with nascent products (growth focus)
- Interest in advanced machine learning or generative AI
Required Experience:
Senior IC