Senior Data Scientist (R12898)

Job Description

Oportun is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and enhancing Oportun’s core intellectual property used in scoring risk for underbanked consumers. This role involves working with large and diverse alternative data sets and utilizing machine learning and statistical modeling to build scores and strategies for managing risk, collection/loss mitigation, and fraud. The Senior Data Scientist will also drive growth and optimize marketing spend across channels.Responsibilities include:

• Developing data products and machine learning models
• Building accurate and automated monitoring tools
• Building model deployment platform
• Building end-to-end reusable pipelines
• Leading initiatives to drive business value
• Leading discussions with Compliance, Bank Partners, and Model Risk Management teams

Qualifications include:

• A relentless problem solver and out of the box thinker
• Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with data extraction, cleaning, analysis and building reusable data pipelines
• Proficient in SQL, Spark SQL and/or Hive
• 3+ years of experience in leveraging modern machine learning toolset and programming languages such as Python
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management and project management skills
• Comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced, agile environment

Oportun offers:

• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies
• Opportunity to drive business value