Intuit Inc

Sr. Staff Data Scientist, Lending

Intuit Inc • $150K — $200K *
Mountain View, CA 94040In-Person
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 9+ years of experience in data science and analytics, preferably within fintech (e.g., lending, credit cards, marketplaces).
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business strategies into actionable analytical problems.
  • Proven track record in designing complex experimental frameworks beyond traditional A/B testing and applying causal inference.
  • Expertise in predictive and prescriptive modeling, customer segmentation, and experimentation design with a balance of statistical rigor and business impact.
  • Experience in creating adaptable methodologies and frameworks utilized by the analytics community.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the capacity to influence senior leaders across diverse business teams.
  • Strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous situations with a proactive, data-driven decision-making approach.
  • BS or MS in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science; advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Set analytics strategy that aligns with QuickBooks Capital's business goals across various initiatives.
  • Influence senior leadership using insights that incorporate business acumen and industry trends.
  • Advocate for new ML methodologies tailored to lending, creating frameworks for their broader adoption.
  • Lead the design of complex experiments and foster a culture of iterative experimentation.
  • Develop durable customer segmentation strategies through insights from diverse analyses.
  • Shape the analytics and AI strategy for lending, focusing on safety, risk, and ethical considerations.
  • Drive improvements in analytics workflows through informed build/buy decisions and scalable tool adoption.
  • Mentor data scientists, raising scientific standards and contributing to team development.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with performance-based rewards.
  • Potential eligibility for cash bonuses and equity rewards.
  • Comprehensive benefits package aligned with employee needs.
  • Commitment to fair pay practices through regular salary assessments.
Full Job Description
The Lending Data Science team is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Scientist to serve as the analytical leader and strategic thought partner across our lending portfolio - spanning the Lending Marketplace (connecting small and medium businesses with the most suitable loans) and our partnerships & externalization efforts (e.g., partnering with organizations like Amazon to deliver personalized loan offers at scale). This is a high-impact, cross-initiative role where you will set the analytics vision, raise the scientific bar across the team, and influence product, marketing, and lending strategy at the Business Unit level.

As a Sr. Staff Data Scientist, you operate as a technical leader and domain expert across multiple teams and initiatives . You apply first-principles thinking to turn business strategy into analytical problems, build reusable frameworks and methodologies that the broader analytics community adopts, and influence senior cross-functional leaders (Directors and VPs) with insights grounded in deep customer understanding, business acumen, and industry-wide context.

Responsibilities
  • Set strategy across initiatives: Turn QuickBooks Capital's business strategy into analytical problems across multiple initiatives (Marketplace and partnerships/externalization), iteratively self-generating and validating hypotheses to create actionable insights and recommendations that inform decision-making at the Business Unit level.
  • Influence senior leadership: Combine insights, business acumen, strategic considerations, and industry-wide learnings to influence cross-functional leaders up to the VP level; act as the connective tissue across Product, Marketing, Engineering, and Design.
  • Advance the science: Identify new ML and causal inference methodologies and external trends, adapt them to lending use cases, and create shareable frameworks that enable adoption across the BU - with clarity on when and how each methodology should be used to drive business value.
  • Lead experimentation at scale: Drive an iterative experimentation culture across the team - designing complex experiments (A/B/n, painted-door, bandits, geo/holdout, and quasi-experimental designs) and applying causal inference (Propensity Score, DiD, Synthetic Control, with growing depth in Doubly Robust Estimation and Instrumental Variables) where A/B testing is limited.
  • Build durable segmentation & customer understanding: Identify key patterns in customer behavior by connecting insights across a portfolio of experiments and analyses; create durable customer segmentation strategies that enhance targeting, positioning, and the application experience.
    • Shape the AI-native roadmap: Co-create the analytics/AI strategy for lending in partnership with cross-functional teams; guide phased testing and rollout with the right measurement, safety, risk, and ethical considerations; connect model performance metrics to customer and business outcomes.
    • Drive build/buy and tooling decisions: Identify the biggest pain points in analytics workflows and serve as a thought partner on build/buy decisions; champion reusable, scalable analytics tools that eliminate redundant effort across the team.
    • Raise the bar & develop talent: Mentor and elevate Data Scientists across the team, set scientific standards and best practices, contribute to calibrations and hiring, and scale yourself through delegation while remaining hands-on in the highest-leverage areas.


Qualifications

We're looking for a curious, proactive, and influential data science leader with a passion for fintech.
  • 9+ years of experience in data science and analytics, with a track record of driving strategy and impact across multiple initiatives or business units; fintech experience (lending, credit cards, or marketplaces) strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply first-principles thinking to translate ambiguous business strategy into analytical problems at the business-unit level.
  • Proven success designing and interpreting complex experiments well beyond traditional A/B testing , and applying causal inference where experimentation is constrained.
  • Deep expertise in predictive/prescriptive modeling, causal inference, customer segmentation, and experimentation design , with the judgment to balance statistical rigor and business considerations.
  • Experience creating reusable frameworks, methodologies, and toolkits that are adopted by a broader analytics community.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder-influence skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence Director- and VP-level leaders across business and technical teams.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity with minimal guidance, make fast data-driven decisions (one-way vs. two-way door), and operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • BS or MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Econometrics, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).


Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at ). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is:

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Size
13,500 employees
Market Cap
$107.4 billion
Industry
Consumer Technology
Net Income
$1.7 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+19.6%
Revenue
$7.7 billion
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