CareerPlan

Lead Credit & Risk Data Science / Analytics

Remote - USRemoteFull-time$230k–$270k2026-10-05 → 2026-11-11
Remote

Core

Lead data science and analytics efforts to build predictive models, analytical tools, and data products for small business credit risk, fraud detection, and financial health assessment.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Data Scientist (Small Business Credit & Risk)

Builds

Production ML models, agentic pipelines, entity resolution systems, and decisioning products for lenders

Domain

Fintech / Small Business Lending / Credit Risk

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, Machine Learning, Statistics, Probability, Data Engineering, LLMs, Gradient Boosting, Feature Engineering, Model Deployment

Preferred skills

Experience with messy financial data, Portfolio of data science accomplishments

Technologies

Python, pandas, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, Snowflake, Postgres

Responsibilities

Analyze large datasets to identify product opportunities; Partner with stakeholders to commercialize data products; Lead research and development of new data science initiatives; Interact with clients as a subject matter expert; Develop scalable models balancing complexity and interpretability; Own end-to-end model lifecycle from exploration to monitoring.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities