Lendable

Fintech

PrincipalDataScientist

London, United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Principal Data Scientist at Lendable. Skills: Data science strategy, Model development, Stakeholder management. Own data science roadmap. Build trust and influence leaders”

What You'll Achieve.

Contribute to new product expansion; Define success of projects; Unlock more value for customers

Industry & Context.

Fintech
Problems you'll solve

Solve problems; Find smarter solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Python, SQL, Statistics

Nice to Have

Insurance, Telco, Financial services consulting

What You'll Do.

Own data science roadmap

Build trust and influence leaders

Drive data science projects

Mentor data scientists

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with cross functional teams; Share ideas with wider team; Contribute to body of knowledge

Communication Scope

Effective communication; Clearly communicate results; Verbal communication; Written communication

Process & Methodology

Managing data science projects

Full Job Description

ABOUT LENDABLE Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: - One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people - Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK - Profitable since 2017 - Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs - Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/lendable.co.uk) So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO 1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo 3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting About the role We are looking for the first data scientist to own the data science strategy for non-lending products. You will partner with the managing directors to define what to build from a data science perspective and lead the delivery of the data science projects. So far, we have successfully re-engineered our 'Big Three' of UK consumer finance: Unsecured Loans, Credit Cards, and Auto Finance into high frequency, low latency automated systems. Now, we are diversifying our ecosystem. Car Insurance is our first venture into non-lending products, presenting a soph

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