Senior Data Scientist

The role

You will lead data work for a core Kikoff product area by setting questions, building evidence, and driving decisions. You will define measurement systems, own product experimentation, and build or evaluate models. You will also help set technical direction and best practices for data science across the company.

What you will do

• Lead the data work for a core Kikoff product area
• Define and maintain the measurement system for your area
• Own product experimentation for your area
• Own evaluation for AI product surfaces
• Build and evaluate models
• Partner with product, engineering, design, and lifecycle marketing leads
• Review work and onboard new teammates
• Set technical direction and best practices for data science across Kikoff
• Define how the team works as AI agents become part of the analysis loop

Required qualifications

• Experience partnering with product, engineering, and marketing peers
• Track record of defining metrics from scratch
• Designed and ran experimentation programs
• 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
• Drive decisions with data in front of senior audiences

Nice to have

• Built or ran an evaluation program for an LLM-based product
• 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
• Have mentored, onboarded, or managed the work of other data scientists

About the company

Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. They have built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.