Perpay
Data Scientist Manager
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 280 days ago
PythonRedshiftAWSTerraformMachine Learningscikit-learnPandasNumPyAirflowData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsA/B TestingForecastingPerformance ManagementCadenceLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- Our data team is organized across three groups: Data Engineering, Data Science, and Strategic Analytics.
- We invest in rigor where rigor matters and resist the urge to over-engineer where it does not.
- We are comfortable being challenged on our work and comfortable challenging back, because the alternative is shipping models that look right and are not.
Responsibilities
- Leverages Marketplace repayment history to help members monitor and build credit with all 3 credit bureaus.
- who they are, what they need from data science, and how to partner with them on solving the right problems.
- Take over 1:1s with the data science team and start forming your own read on where each person is, what they need, and what they should be working on next.
- Develop at least one IC into being meaningfully more senior than they were when you started.
Requirements
- You should have at least three years directly managing data scientists, on top of substantial IC experience that you have kept current.
- If you have grown out of wanting to be in the work, this is the wrong role.
- Lessons you have learned about managing technical work where the right answer is not always obvious and the failure mode is "looks plausible but is not actually true."
- How you have handled disagreement with stakeholders about scope, methodology, or interpretation of results.
Compensation
- Meaningful compensation and equity
Benefits
- Expands access to the flexibility and benefits of a World Mastercard by removing common barriers like high security deposits and low approval odds.
- If you are passionate about a meaningful mission, collaboration, equity, and generous perks, Perpay is the best place to be in Philadelphia right now.
- Meaningful compensation and equity
- Premium medical benefits (fully paid base plan, and very reasonable premium for the buy-up option)
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Remote weeks around major holidays + extra holiday on weekends like MDW and LDW
Company info
- Perpay is a certified B Corp and Philadelphia's most impactful growth-stage startup. We are driven by a mission to significantly improve the financial stability of everyday Americans. For the past decade, we have established strong product-market fit and a profitable, efficient operating model across a suite of products, positioning Perpay as the premier financial partner for consumers with subprime credit.
- With over 500,000 customers who have utilized more than $1 billion in spending power, we are at a pivotal moment. We are scaling our operations, building new offerings, and deepening our impact. We are looking for teammates eager to join us on this journey.
- Our venture partners include First Round Capital and L Catterton.
- Products we've built to make an impact:
- Perpay is a certified B Corp and Philadelphia's most impactful growth-stage startup.
- We are driven by a mission to significantly improve the financial stability of everyday Americans.
- For the past decade, we have established strong product-market fit and a profitable, efficient operating model across a suite of products, positioning Perpay as the premier financial partner for consumers with subprime credit.
- With over 500,000 customers who have utilized more than $1 billion in spending power, we are at a pivotal moment.
- We are scaling our operations, building new offerings, and deepening our impact.
- We are looking for teammates eager to join us on this journey.
- Perpay Marketplace: Combines interest-free payments and modern e-commerce to reduce cost of ownership and promote healthy repayment behavior.
- Perpay+: Leverages Marketplace repayment history to help members monitor and build credit with all 3 credit bureaus.
- Perpay Credit Card: Expands access to the flexibility and benefits of a World Mastercard by removing common barriers like high security deposits and low approval odds.
- Our team thrives on in-person collaboration, operating from our unique center-city Philadelphia office.
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