Self Financial
Staff Data Analyst
Austin, TX · Staff+
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$11,216 more — $151,216 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $151,216 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Data Scientists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Data Scientists (15-2051) · Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Generous health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Gym membership options through ClassPass or monthly reimbursement
- Company equity in the form of stock options
Responsibilities
- Lead analytical projects/experiments that get past correlation to the actual drivers of customer and product behavior, segmentation, and engagement. Understanding which movements are noise versus those we should act on.
- Partner closely with Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams to define measurement strategies, set goals, and influence the business roadmap.
- Build and manage agentic AI (Claude), domain context layers, and semantic workflows (dbt Metric Flow, Semantic Layer) to enable working smarter and automation of day-to-day functions.
- Develop and maintain business intelligence dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into key lifecycle marketing KPIs, customer cohorts, and campaign performance.
- Team building events and activities
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in a data analytics role, with significant experience supporting product teams, preferably within fintech or a related consumer-facing industry (e.g., banking, credit cards, lending).
- Experience working in cloud-based data warehouses with proven expertise in SQL (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
- Experience working with analytics engineering ELT tools (e.g., dbt, Databricks, Airflow, Git)
- Experience with AI (e.g., Claude, Codex), including building skills, agents, and context harnesses.
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming language for data analysis (e.g., Python, R).
- Experience with A/B testing and causal inference, including both Bayesian and Frequentist approaches and quasi-experimental methods (difference-in-differences, etc.) for cases where a clean test isn't an option.
- Ability to translate business questions into actionable insights and clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Dedicated Work Ethic: You are willing to dive deep into the data, tackle challenging problems head-on, and see projects through to completion with rigor and attention to detail.
- Innovator & AI Enthusiast: You are curious about emerging technologies, including AI, and eager to explore how they can be applied to improve analytical processes, models, and marketing effectiveness.
- Experience building dashboards and reports using BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Power BI).
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills:
Skills
- Familiarity with marketing automation platforms and customer data platforms.
- Experience with predictive modeling techniques (e.g., regression, classification) and machine learning concepts.
- Understanding of customer lifetime value (CLTV) modeling and cohort analysis.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- What's Exciting
Compensation
- $140,000 - $170,000 annually.
- Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.
Benefits
- Employer-paid benefits including life, disability, and cost-containment resources
- Education reimbursement program
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation bonus to move to Austin
- Flexible vacation
Company info
- We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.
- Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.
- At this time, we are only able to consider applicants who are U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities.
- Company performance-based bonuses
- Direct Impact: Your analysis and insights will directly shape how we engage with our customers, influencing key marketing strategies and product decisions that help people improve their financial health.
Equal opportunity
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
This listing is sourced directly from Self Financial's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.