Wealthfront
Senior Data Scientist, Home Lending
Palo Alto, CA. Posted 3 months ago
The role
The Senior Data Scientist will be embedded in Wealthfront's Home Lending area. The work uses financial and behavioral data to build predictive models for purchasers and refinancers, and to analyze user behavior in home lending tools.
What you will do
- Build predictive models for potential purchasers or refinancers in the client base
- Analyze user behavior in web-based home lending tools and flows to optimize them
- Interpret statistical results for business stakeholders and translate them into recommendations
- Formulate project plans with clear rationale, approaches and milestones
- Identify key initiatives for the Home Lending area and champion Data Science within them
- Employ mathematical rigor and best practices for software development
- Enhance team execution through hands-on help, design feedback and peer review
- Mentor junior Data Scientists, depending on experience and interest, including management of junior team members
Required qualifications
- A Master's or PhD in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics or Natural Sciences
- 6+ years of prior experience in a Data Science role
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including partnering across organizations to sharpen project requirements
- Hands-on mathematical and software engineering skills to execute complex projects
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Desire and ability to mentor junior Data Scientists
Benefits
- Medical, vision and dental coverage
- 401K plan
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Wellness reimbursements
- Professional development
- Employee investing discount
Before you apply
- Exceptions to the degree and experience requirements may be considered case by case
About the company
Wealthfront's mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions, using technology to build low-cost, easy-to-use financial products. Its products include a Cash Account, automated investing portfolios, a zero-commission Brokerage Account and a digital-first mortgage experience.