Staff Data Scientist, Grant

The role

You will lead data work for a Grant product area by setting questions, building evidence, and driving decisions. You will also contribute to technical direction and best practices for data science across Kikoff and help define AI agent workflows.

What you will do

• Lead the data work for a Grant product area
• Define and maintain the measurement system for your product area
• Own product experimentation for your area
• Build and evaluate models
• Partner with Grant's business lead and area leads on roadmap and objectives
• Contribute to technical direction and best practices for data science across Kikoff

Required qualifications

• Experience partnering with product, engineering, and marketing peers across strategy, goal setting, approach, and execution
• A track record of defining metrics from scratch and getting a team to run on them
• Designed and run experimentation programs, including changes where clean randomization wasn't available
• Comfortable with quasi-experimental and causal inference methods
• Hands-on with production-quality SQL and Python
• Experience building or working closely with models that drive decisions in a product
• AI tools are a core part of your daily analytical work
• You drive decisions with data in front of executive audiences

Nice to have

• Consumer fintech experience, especially products that expand access for un- and under-banked customers
• Built an experimentation or causal inference practice in an org that didn't have one
• Have taken a model from proof of concept to production, or shipped test and challenger models that changed a product decision
• Prior staff or tech-lead scope: set direction for other ICs and owned a domain's data strategy
• 8+ years in data science or analytics

About the company

Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. Grant is Kikoff's fastest growing business line, providing fast, fair access to earned wages.