Sr. Data Scientist

Kafene is a fast-growing cutting-edge fintech firm dedicated to empowering flexible ownership solutions for underserved customers nationwide. We differentiate ourselves from the pack with our incredible loss improvement and healthy growth while a significant loss increase was observed in the industry. Kafene has made it on the Built In "22 Start Ups to Watch in 2022" list. Kafene was also chosen as Lendit Industry award finalist and is included in Forbes' "Best Startup Employers" of 2023.
Kafene believes in empowering people and offering opportunities for development, as well as professional growth. We value strong, positive relationships in all areas: with each other and our customers. Want to be a part of a team of diverse collaborators in an authentically fun culture? If so, we want to talk to you - and hear what you can bring to our growing company and team!
The ideal candidate for this role is a Data Scientist to design and deploy projects in direct support of our Risk and Sales organizations. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone quantitative to make a transition from trading, hedge funds, investment banking, or engineering into fintech and specifically, consumer credit. The role is to drive top level revenue performance from our lease and loan assets by designing the optimal mix of pricing, approval rates/amounts, asset selection, and geographical targeting. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
What You will Do
•Develop and implement quantitative analyses and frameworks, deep dive customer insights, predictive models to enable performance measurement, decision-making and identify business actions and customer outcomes.
•Partner with C-suite, corporate strategy, finance, marketing, merchandising, research, product, data science and analytics organizations to drive outcomes.
•Measure business performance by conducting analytical research, interpreting results of experiments, and building dashboards.
•Lead the application and validation of statistical and other mathematical methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize economic data to assist in decision-making and support the development of business strategy.
Requirements
•4-7+ years of experience working as an analyst in Corporate Strategy, Risk Analysis in the Investment Banking, Management Consulting, and/or Venture Capital/Private Equity.
•Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Math, Finance, Engineering, Sciences.)
•Superior quantitative analysis skills, creativity in problem-solving, and a keen business sense.
•Established history with leading analysis-driven projects across definition, execution and presentation, driving and influencing strategy, product and marketing roadmaps.
•Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
•Experience with R, Python, Tableau, Looker, and Google Analytics (or similar analytical packages) is a plus.
•Demonstrated ability to collect and organize data and work effectively with complex relational databases (Snowflake, Hadoop)
•Analytical mindset - ability to perform root cause analysis, recognize patterns, and observe details.
$145,000 - $175,000 a year
Kafene is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. If you are applying for a job in the U.S. and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to jobs@kafene.com and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.