Senior Data Scientist

Mudflap serves the $800B trucking industry the backbone of the U.S. economy. Our market-leading payment products help truckers save thousands of dollars on fuel (their #1 business expense) while providing our fuel stop partners with access to new hard-to-reach customers. Were a fast-growing marketplace business looking for a new customer-obsessed teammate to join us on this exciting journey.

About the Role
At Mudflap were building a data-driven engine to power decisions across every part of our business. Were looking for versatile Senior Data Scientists to join our small high-impact analytics and ML team. Youll work closely with product engineering operations and cross-functional partners to build data products ML models run experiments and deliver insights that directly influence our growth and product strategy.

Work Location:

This can be a fully remote position. While we operate across multiple time zones most collaboration happens during Pacific Time working hours. Candidates should be able to work a schedule aligned with the PT time zone.

To support our team we offer:

• Commuter benefits to ease your travel

• Lunches and snacks to keep you fueled

• A collaborative high-growth environment where youll work closely with talented teammates across the company

Were hiring for two key domainsRisk and Pricing so you can apply your skills where youre most passionate:

What Youll Do

Risk:
Identify model and mitigate credit and fraud risks across our platform. Build and strengthen our underwriting capabilities for credit risk and develop predictive models to reduce fraud losses. Partner with Product engineering and operations teams to implement scalable risk strategies.

Pricing:

Drive strategic pricing decisions with rigorous analytics and modeling. Build price and elasticity models estimate willingness-to-pay design and analyze pricing experiments (A/B and incrementality) and deliver actionable insights on revenue margin and churnpartnering with Product Finance and Revenue Ops to turn models into pricing actions.

What Youll Do

• Drive strategic data science initiatives that directly impact business outcomes working closely with executive leadership to identify high-value opportunities in your domain.

• Lead end-to-end machine learning projects from problem formulation through production deployment including model development validation A/B testing and performance monitoring. solve high-impact business problems such as fraudulent risk assessment underwriting customer segmentation etc.

• Drive data-driven decision making across cross-functional partnerships Collaborate closely with Product Engineering Ops Risk teams etc. to translate complex business requirements into analytical solutions and communicate insights to executive stakeholders

• Mentor junior data scientists and analysts and establish best practices Provide technical leadership code reviews and strategic guidance while developing scalable data science methodologies and standards across the organization

• Lead experimentation strategy and drive product innovation Own end-to-end A/B testing frameworks mentor teams on experimental design and translate test results into actionable product improvements that directly impact key business metrics

What Were Looking For

• 5 years of experience in data science analytics or related fields.

• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation modeling and automation.

• Experience building production-ready models and pipelines.

• Strong statistical knowledge and experience designing experiments (A/B testing cohort analysis causal inference).

• Excellent communication skillsability to present complex insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in at least one of the domains: risk growth/marketing or product analytics preferred.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where collaboration and flexibility are essential.

Perks and Benefits (What we offer):

• Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup

• Multiple health benefit options

• Responsible Time Off

• 401(k) matching

• Opportunities and support for major career growth

• Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)

The salary range for this role is $185000 - 215000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data which may be subject to change as new market data becomes available. The candidates skills experience and other relevant factors will determine the exact compensation.

Company Overview (Who we are):

Mudflap is on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry by leveling the playing field for owner operators and small fleets. Backed by top-tier venture investors including QED Matrix Partners Commerce Ventures NFX and 500 Startups and included in the Forbes Fintech 50 list Mudflap offers fleet fuel management solutions. Our core team hails from Disney Uber Procore DoorDash Google Meta Capital One Affirm and Brex.

Here are the core values that we believe in and look for in new teammates:

• Be Customer Obsessed: We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do

• Make it Count: Act like an owner by focusing on the impact of your work

• Find a Way: Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates

• Sweat the Details: We keep our standards high and achieve them by paying attention to every detail

• Be Curious: Use a growth mindset to question assumptions take calculated risks and stretch the boundaries of whats possible

Required Experience:

Senior IC