Credit Strategy Manager I

Best Egg

$115K — $140K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, finance, economics, or equivalent experience.
  • 4-6 years in credit risk, pricing strategy, underwriting, analytics, or yield management.
  • Experience with approval, conversion, yield, margin, loss, profitability, or customer response metrics analysis.
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, SAS, R, or similar analytical tools.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  • Understanding of credit risk, risk-based pricing, expected loss, and lending economics.

Responsibilities

  • Execute and refine underwriting, risk-based pricing, and offer strategies.
  • Translate credit strategies into decisioning logic, segmentation frameworks, and operational rules.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate execution of pricing and credit strategies.
  • Design and evaluate champion/challenger tests for various lending metrics.
  • Assess customer price sensitivity and conversion elasticity across segments.
  • Prepare regular performance reports on credit strategy effectiveness.
  • Identify drivers of performance and recommend pricing and credit strategy enhancements.

Benefits

  • Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with competitive company matching.
  • Generous paid time-off including vacation, sick time, parental leave, and company holidays.
  • Multiple health care plans, including dental and vision options.
  • Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts.
  • Company-paid benefits like life insurance and wellness programs.
  • Discounted benefits such as identity theft protection and fitness reimbursements.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Credit Strategy Manager I to execute, monitor, and optimize underwriting, risk-based pricing, offer, and yield management strategies for our consumer lending products. This role owns defined components of credit, pricing, or channel strategy, translating risk appetite, profitability objectives, and business goals into decisioning logic, segmentation, pricing tiers, offer structures, and operational rules while partnering cross-functionally to ensure accurate implementation. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical rigor, commercial judgment, and a data-driven mindset to improve risk-adjusted yield, manage risk, and drive continuous strategy enhancements within established frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Credit Strategy Execution
  • Execute and refine underwriting, line assignment, risk-based pricing, and offer strategies
  • Translate pricing and credit strategy into decisioning logic, segmentation frameworks, pricing tiers, and operational rules
  • Partner with Finance, Product, Marketing, Compliance, Fair Lending, Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure pricing and credit strategies are accurately implemented
Performance Analysis & Optimization
  • Design and evaluate champion/challenger tests related to APRs, fees, promotional offers, loan terms, line assignments, and offer structures
  • Assess customer price sensitivity and conversion elasticity across segments, risk bands, products, and acquisition channels
  • Prepare regular reporting on credit performance and strategy effectiveness
  • Identify performance drivers and recommend targeted pricing, yield, and credit strategy enhancements
Scope & Autonomy
  • Own defined components of credit, pricing, or channel strategy end-to-end, from analysis through implementation and performance monitoring
  • Work independently on complex pricing, profitability, and credit analyses while influencing cross-functional partners to execute strategy effectively
  • Recommend and drive scoped strategy adjustments within established risk appetite, policy, and profitability frameworks


Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, finance, economics, business, or equivalent experience
  • 4-6 years in credit risk, pricing strategy, underwriting, analytics, yield management, or credit strategy
  • Experience analyzing approval, conversion, yield, margin, loss, profitability, or customer response metrics
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, SAS, R, or similar tools
  • Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Understanding of credit risk, risk-based pricing, expected loss, and lending economics


What Success Looks Like

  • Strategy and pricing changes are implemented accurately and on schedule
  • Performance insights are timely, actionable, and tied to yield, margin, credit, and profitability outcomes
  • Risk-adjusted results improve within assigned scope
  • Champion/challenger tests produce measurable learnings about price sensitivity, conversion, and profitability
  • Emerging portfolio risks or yield pressures are identified early with clear recommendations


$115,000 - $140,000 a year

Employee Benefits

Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):
• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching

program
• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--

term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company

holidays
• Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
• Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health

Reimbursement Accounts
• Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee

assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
• Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,

fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

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