Lead Product Data Scientist at Lendable

ABOUT LENDABLE Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: - One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people - Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK - Profitable since 2017 - Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs - Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot [Upgrade to PRO to see link] So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO 1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo 3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for an experienced Lead Product Data Scientist to drive product analytics across our rapidly evolving multi-product app. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in uncovering insights that shape and accelerate our Zable app, which is used by over 1 million customers on iOS and Android. This is a high-impact role where your insights will directly shape product strategy and accelerate our core user experience. You will serve as the primary analytical voice for our Zable app, driving the entire experimentation lifecycle, influencing the decision relating to user experience, and shaping critical business decisions. Beyond individual contribution, you will be instrumental in establishing analytical best practices, and acting as a key strategic thought partner to Product, Growth, and Engineering leadership. WHAT YOU'LL DO DRIVE PRODUCT ANALYTICS - Be the dedicated analytical leader for the Zable app, deeply understanding user behavior and engagement drivers to identify high-impact opportunities - Develop and maintain key product metrics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks that provide visibility into user behavior, overall app health, and business performance - Conduct deep-dive analyses into user behaviour, segmentation, and lifecycle patterns to identify growth opportunities and friction points - Apply data science techniques to build predictive models for user behavior, churn risk, and uplift modeling to inform proactive product decisions DRIVE EXPERIMENTATION & TESTING - Own the end-to-end A/B testing process, including experimental design, execution, analysis and recommendations - Establish experimentation standards and best practices, including test design, statistical rigour, and result interpretation SHAPE STRATEGY & DECISION-MAKING - Challenge assumptions and provide data-driven perspectives that shape strategic discussions and roadmap planning - Proactively partner with product managers, analysts and engineers to embed data into the daily decision-making flow and translate complex findings into clear business recommendations ESTABLISH ANALYTICAL EXCELLENCE - Define and champion analytics best practices, standards, and methodologies within the growth analytics team WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR CORE QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of experience in data analytics, ideally within a product-led or high-growth tech environment - Hands-on experience with dbt and familiarity with data modelling best practices - High proficiency in SQL and strong proficiency in data analysis in Python - Demonstrates strong statistical rigour, applying appropriate methods to ensure robust, reliable insights - Highly skilled in experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing, hypothesis testing, and causal inference - Experience building metrics, dashboards and reporting infrastructure - Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous problems into structured and data-drive insights - Excellent communication skills with experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and product leaders. NICE TO HAVES - Experience in product analytics - Experience in fintech or financial services products INTERVIEW PROCESS - Screening call with a recruiter - Take home task - Task Debrief - Case study Interview - Final Interviews LIFE AT LENDABLE - The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies. - Best-in-class compensation, including equity. - You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas. - Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday. - We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance - We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London Check out our blog [Upgrade to PRO to see link]