Credit Strategy - Risk Lead

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SoFi’s Credit team manages credit risk activities for our lending products (Student Loan Refinance, Private Student Loan, Personal Loan, Credit Card, and Mortgage) - including credit strategies/policies for new account origination and portfolio management, collections/recovery strategies and operations, and risk and operational data science and analytics. The team designs data-driven strategies to ensure the growth in lending is consistent with the company’s risk appetite and helps create the products and experiences that put our members’ interests first.

Responsibilities

to analyze and evaluate data to develop and propose value-added credit risk strategies and models for SoFi’s lending products, including Personal Loan, Student Loan Refinance, Private Student Loan, and Credit Card. The Credit Strategy Lead will collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Business Units, Capital Markets, Product and Engineering, and use business knowledge and quantitative and analytical skills to drive revenue, control risk, and provide value to the company and consumers. The ideal candidate will possess a data-driven analytics background and the strategic acumen to direct a function that draws strategic insights from data using database and statistical analysis tools to inform decisions and support SoFi’s overarching strategic goals relative to loss prevention and profit optimization.

They bring new ways of thinking, data sources, technologies, and capabilities to SoFi.

What You’Ll Do

: Innovate… Bring your brightest ideas to building risk strategies. This means you will architect the pre-screen and underwriting strategies. Data Driven… Your deep analysis will power the future of lending with an optimal real-time data ecosystem – including multi-product internal, bureau, third-party, and alternative data sources and uses.

Iterate, learn, innovate… We are all responsible for innovation and must embrace data-driven decisions. Control the Risk and Drive Performance Outcomes … Understand credit risk and develop approaches to mitigate loss and responsibly grow revenue. Monitor the performance of strategies and portfolios.

Document and communicate results and escalate issues as necessary. Identify gaps/opportunities and drive actions. … Be inspired by dynamic leaders and our rapidly growing business.

We want YOU to be an inspired leader of tomorrow, so we are recruiting the best, brightest, and passionately quantitative team members.