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Director, Card Growth & Risk Initiatives

upgrade$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in consumer finance, consulting, or data-driven roles.
  • Extensive background in consumer lending and credit risk management.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Excel, familiarity with Python is a plus.
  • Strong analytical and independent problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to simplify complexity.

Responsibilities

  • Lead credit risk strategy and design policies for strategic initiatives.
  • Identify and develop new growth opportunities in the credit card space.
  • Create a forward-looking agenda to guide and influence organizational growth.
  • Evaluate, propose tests, and build business cases for card growth.
  • Analyze internal and external data and test results to inform strategies.
  • Develop defenses against intentional credit misuse and synthetic underwriting.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and scale initiatives.

Benefits

  • Paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Flexible paid time off (PTO).
  • Competitive 401(k) plan.
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Health and wellness initiatives.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

We're seeking a hands-on and data-driven Director to lead Card Credit R&D and Growth Initiatives. In this role, you'll drive and deliver a variety of strategic, high impact initiatives that unlock and accelerate growth of our Credit Card business. You will creatively use internal/external data, business judgement, and scenario analysis to develop business cases for new initiatives. You will partner cross-functionally to advocate for high value initiatives, develop plans to implement and scale, and report results to leadership. Your work will drive sustainable and responsible growth in Cards, advance our ability to serve a larger customer base, and ensure predictable and strong returns from our Card product.

This role will be based in our Wilmington or San Francisco office in a hybrid capacity.

What You'll Do:
  • Provide credit risk leadership, policy design, and support to launch prioritized strategic initiatives, such as (but not limited to)

o Enhanced scale in Affinity Segments

o Expand into new customer segments with customized approaches

o Enable / support marketing initiatives with credit risk interactions,

such as credit line marketing to prospective customers
  • Identify and pursue new growth opportunities
  • Develop a forward-looking agenda to deliver continued growth and influence the organization to rally behind it
  • Evaluate opportunities, propose tests, and build business cases to unlock future card growth
  • Combine test results, internal and external market data, and business judgement to deliver responsible growth
  • Test cash flow underwriting use-cases, evaluate business case to deploy at scale, and develop policies to unlock growth
  • Develop and enhance Intentional Credit Misuse / Synthetic U/W defenses
  • Partner cross-functionally to implement and scale
  • Track performance of initiatives, identify further opportunities to enhance and report recommendations/results to leadership


What We Look For:
  • 7+ years of experience in consumer finance, consulting, or other data-driven backgrounds
  • Deep experience with consumer lending / credit risk, particularly in credit cards
  • Data-driven and independent problem solver
  • Strong communicator with a knack for identifying the business intuition behind complexity
  • Comfort with solving white-space problems and identifying reasonable paths in the face of ambiguity
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, Excel (Python is a plus)


What We Offer You:
  • Competitive salary and stock option plan
  • Paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • Competitive 401(k)
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Paid parental leave
  • Health & wellness initiatives

About upgrade

Upgrade is an online lending platform that offers personal loans and credit monitoring services. The company was founded in 2016 by Renaud Laplanche, the former CEO of LendingClub. Upgrade offers personal loans with fixed rates and terms ranging from 36 to 60 months. The company also provides credit monitoring and credit education tools to help customers improve their credit scores. Upgrade has raised over $142 million in funding and has originated over $3 billion in loans.
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Size
1,000 employees
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Founded
2016

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