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Senior Data Scientist, Home Lending

wealthfront·Palo Alto, CA
full timePalo Alto, CA

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AT A GLANCE

TechnologySenior6+ years experienceFull Time

Required

  • 6+ years experience
  • SQL
Preferred qualifications are helpful, not automatic disqualifiers.
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The Wealthfront Data Science Team utilizes our rich financial and behavioral data to influence key product and marketing decisions, as well as to safeguard our client’s information and assets. The team draws from backgrounds in Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, E

About the role

The Wealthfront Data Science Team utilizes our rich financial and behavioral data to influence key product and marketing decisions, as well as to safeguard our client’s information and assets. The team draws from backgrounds in Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics, and Natural Sciences. We value analytical rigor, clear communication, and proactivity. We believe that good ideas can come from anywhere and encourage Data Scientists to pursue self-directed explorations in search of business value. The Data Scientist in this role will be primarily embedded within Wealthfront’s new and quickly-growing Home Lending area. The vision of this area is to enable our clients to grow their wealth through leveraged home ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Build predictive models for potential purchasers or refinancers in our client base to enable efficient and targeted outreach
  • Analyze user behavior in web-based home lending tools and flows to identify patterns and optimize these experiences
  • Interpret and contextualize statistical results for business stakeholders and help translate numbers into recommendations

Requirements

  • A Master's or a PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics or Natural Sciences, with 6+ years of prior experience in a Data Science role. Exceptions to these requirements may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills and a record of partnering across organizations to sharpen project requirements. Sometimes this includes re-framing the original request to solve a more general problem with similar effort.
  • Hands-on mathematical and software engineering skills to execute on complex projects.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Desire and ability to mentor junior Data Scientists within the team by exemplifying math, engineering and technical communication skills.

Benefits

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