About the position
SoFi’s Senior Manager, Fraud Model Development is a leadership position within SoFi’s fraud model organization whose mission is to protect SoFi and its members using leading edge tools, technology and data models. This role will report to the Senior Director of Fraud Models and Ops Business Intelligence and will lead a team responsible for the development and validation of a wide variety of fraud models. This is a highly visible role within SoFi’s data science and BI community and directly contributes towards key company goals and objectives.
Responsibilities
- Innovate: Bring your brightest ideas to building fraud risk strategies and models.
- Leverage Data to drive decisions: Your deep analysis will power the future of managing Fraud and protecting our members.
- Iterate, learn, optimize: Build models capable of running various risk scenarios and permutations.
- Collaborate: Work collaboratively with business partners such as Operations, Finance, Legal and Compliance.
- Minimize Risk and Drive Performance Outcomes: Develop approaches to mitigate loss and responsibly grow revenue.
- Hire and Develop the Best: Supervise a team of 4-5 model development experts.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of progressive experience in model development or model risk management within midsize or large U.S. financial institutions.
- At least 3 years experience supervising model developers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a quantitative field required.
- Deep knowledge of traditional statistical modeling methods and at least moderate knowledge of AI/ML approaches.
- Ability to explain risks associated with complex technical matters to a non-technical audience.
- Experience in building and leading high-performing teams.
- Ability and confidence to exercise influence over a wide range of individuals at all levels of technical and business leadership.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience building or working within graph databases to build Fraud Risk models.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package.
