Senior Business Manager, Underwriting Innovation Lead

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Mission Lane is revolutionizing access to credit to pave a clear way forward for millions of Americans on the path to financial success. By attracting top-tier talent and leveraging cutting-edge technology, we’re redefining consumer credit for the better. Sound like a mission you can get behind?

The Credit Team is responsible for matching prospective customers with the right product terms, owning the underwriting process throughout the lifetime of the customer, understanding lifetime value, and creating pathways to customer graduation all while staying true to our mission.

As an Underwriting Innovation Lead you will:

• Create a strategy to evaluate and onboard alternate sources of data
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to scale alternative data sources at Mission Lane
• Create and execute strategies to increase customer permission rate for sensitive sources
• Collaborate with data science partners to experiment with new data sources and build models that can add scale to models built on traditional data
• Create a plan to test and rollout models in-market
• Develop a roadmap that will help deliver critical models and capabilities derived from alternate data sources
• Engage with senior management regularly to articulate the strategy and the opportunities of the program

Requirements

• Proven ability to problem solve end-to-end: from framing the question and forming a hypothesis, to analyzing the data, to communicating and debating the answer with other stakeholders
• Comfortable working with white space problems that require strategic thinking and structuring into smaller workable pieces
• Familiarity with SQL, python, or other tools for data analysis
• 7+ years of experience in a highly analytical role
• Bachelor’s or Masters in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar quantitative field with record of strong academic performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience doing analytical work with credit cards or other consumer lending products
• Experience helping scale a business in a fast-paced startup environment
• Expertise in SQL or Python

Application Instructions

• Not specified

Company Information

Mission Lane is committed to ensuring our team members have balance in their lives. Our comprehensive benefits package provides the support you need to thrive at work and at home. We’re looking for people who have the courage to take on new challenges. If you need accommodations to perform at your highest potential throughout the application and/or interview process, don’t hesitate to reach out.