FairSquare
Lead Data Scientist - Growth & Marketing Models
San Diego, CA · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$4,336 more — $154,336 — 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 $154,336 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 "Statisticians" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Your work will ship into production and be measured against conversion, credit performance, customer economics, and profitable growth.
- We are a lean data science team inside a fast-moving FinTech lender.
- We use AI as a real force multiplier: tools such as Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT are part of the daily workflow for analysis, coding, and drafting.
Responsibilities
- You will build the predictive models and analytics that determine whom we target, which prospects receive an offer, who we approve, and where the next dollar of marketing spend goes.
- Reporting and visualization support the work, but the center of gravity is production modeling, experimentation, and decisioning.
- Customer segmentation, lookalike, lead-scoring, recommendation, and personalization models that improve who we contact and what we offer.
- Partner with leaders across marketing, credit risk, sales, product, and engineering to translate commercial problems into well-posed analytical questions and measurable success criteria.
- Work with structured and unstructured data from disparate sources; reconcile conflicting numbers, surface data gaps, and drive issues to resolution with data owners.
- Design experiments that distinguish correlation from causation and translate model lift into financial and customer outcomes.
- Collaborate with engineering and analytics partners to move models into reliable production workflows, then investigate performance changes and recalibrate, retrain, or replace models when needed.
Compensation
- $150k-$200k
Benefits
- Build and evaluate supervised and unsupervised machine learning models using sound statistical methods, appropriate benchmarks, and transparent assumptions.
Company info
- We are one of the country's largest private providers of small business loans, having funded more than $3 billion to help small businesses grow.
- We are believers in small business owners.
- Since 1999, we have provided more than $3 billion in funding to over 50,000 customers to support their working capital and equipment financing needs.
Equal opportunity
- FairSquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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