Senior/Staff Data Scientist

FloatMe • Austin, TX

6d • $150,000 - $220,000

About The Position

FloatMe is hiring a Senior/Staff Data Scientist to turn product, customer, and risk data into the insights and decision frameworks that shape how we grow. You'll own end-to-end execution — analysis, experimentation, forecasting, visualization — and partner closely with our ML Engineers to evaluate model performance and connect risk decisions directly to business impact. If you love turning ambiguous, high-stakes questions into sharp, decision-ready answers and want to set the technical bar for a fast-moving fintech team, this is the seat for you.

Requirements

• 4+ years applying AI, machine learning, or statistical modeling in decisioning contexts such as credit, risk, fraud, recommendations, or similar domains.
• Advanced proficiency with SQL, Python and experience building clear, decision-oriented data visualizations
• Strong product, analytical, and statistical judgment, including the ability to turn ambiguous product, customer, or risk questions into sound analyses, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and support decisions
• Experience using AI tools to improve the speed, quality, and durability of analytical work

Nice To Haves

• Fintech background
• Consumer finance experience (non-large bank environment)
• Advanced modeling techniques
• Background in small to medium sized companies

Responsibilities

• Turn complex product, customer, and risk data into clear insights, decision frameworks, and durable measurement systems for product, risk, and business partners
• Own end-to-end execution across analysis, metrics definition, experimentation, forecasting, visualization, and decision support
• Define and maintain measurement frameworks for FloatMe products, including customer eligibility, repayment behavior, product usage, loss performance, funnel health, subscription, and long-term customer outcomes
• Partner with Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) to evaluate model and policy performance, monitor cohorts, identify bias or drift, and connect risk decisions to product and business impact
• Design and analyze experiments, rollouts, and policy changes that shape customer access, repayment outcomes, and product growth
• Approach ambiguous product and risk questions from first principles, using statistical judgment to define the right cohorts, metrics, and decision criteria
• Communicate insights clearly to technical, product, and business stakeholders, including risk partners and senior decision-makers
• Lead technical direction and standards - making and building consensus on key technical decisions, and creating reusable frameworks, measurement templates, and scalable tooling that remove complexity for others
• Drive localized cross-team impact by partnering with senior stakeholders in product, engineering, and risk to align Data Science work with broader strategy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior