Senior Data Scientist, Crypto

The Role: 

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our team. SoFi is building out a new team to develop crypto products and services for our members. Recent developments made a path for SoFi to begin to re-enter the space and expand on our product offerings with intuitive, secure and fully featured products across crypto Investing, Transfers, Payments, Custody and beyond.

Success in this role hinges on your technical aptitude, quantitative abilities, and business acumen: you know how to plow through data with SQL/Python/R/Tableau, surface insights using math/statistics/ML techniques, and measure the business impact using efficiency/conversion/profit metrics. You treat stakeholders as a partnership – you are there at each step of the way and you know that we only succeed if we succeed together. 

What you’ll do:

• Work with amazing product and business managers to identify strategic opportunities, measure KPIs to craft compelling stories, make data-driven recommendations, and drive informed actions. 
• Own end-to-end product analytics workflow including formulating success metrics, socializing them across the organization, and creating dashboards/reports. 
• Act as a curator of data by defining, instrumenting, and tracking necessary analytics of our products by working cross functionally with engineering and product teams. 
• Craft, analyze, and present customer behavior metrics, such as funnel conversion, user churn, crypto features engagement, product LTV, and cross-sell metrics. Work with product and marketing partners to design tests to improve these metrics. 
• Working with seasoned business leaders to support the launch of new products within the Crypto space. 
• Build self-service dashboards to enable others in the organization to leverage your work. 
• Analyze and perform statistical analysis on data that underlies Crypto’s product experiments.
• Build exploratory & predictive models to help decision makers understand customer behaviors and segmentation
• Run significance tests and continuously discover trends in customer behavior to inform decision making with a high level of confidence
• You stay focused on what’s best for the company – sometimes that requires being flexible, other times it requires being steadfast. 

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree required (Masters preferred) in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or quantitative field. 
• 4+ years of relevant work experience 
• Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills 
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance 
• High EQ with ability to influence outcomes and communicate technical content to general audiences 
• Ability to communicate assertively and succinctly therefore being able to influence stakeholders to make data driven decisions. 
• Strong programming skills in SQL, Python and proficiency in Tableau
• Experience with experimentation and hypothesis testing
• Ability to work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, with strong attention to detail
• Strong relationship building and collaborative skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with investments and digital assets (eg. Bitcoin, Ethereum)
• Exposure to crypto trading platforms, market data & DeFi protocols.
• Knowledge of crypto-specific regulatory environments (eg. SEC, CFTC etc.)
• Experience in a financial organization
• Experience with using DBT/Airflow to build Data Pipelines in Snowflake
• Experience in working with nascent products (growth focus)
• Interest in advanced machine learning or generative AI