THE POSITION

You absolutely love data (unstructured and structured), testing hypotheses, and arriving at data-driven recommendations that have an immediate impact on the business. You have a strong business acumen and exceptional critical thinking that you employ to turn data insights into strategic action. You are passionate about communicating insights as much as you are about discovering them in the first place. You constantly ask questions about how to use analytics to improve the business and constantly make impactful strategic decisions. You have a passion for marketing and a desire to use data to optimize performance.  You enjoy collaborating with teams across digital and traditional channels to understand and support their goals.

Responsibilities:

• Develop analytical frameworks and models to optimize performance and process efficiency
• Work with marketing channel leads to help drive media for growth, develop new strategies and provide data driven insights
• Work with Product team to design, conduct, and analyze A/B tests
• Collaborate with stakeholders to work on innovative ideas to increase market share

• Apply your expertise in strategic analytics, data mining, and analytic storytelling to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core products to maximize customer satisfaction, lead performance, business revenue, and product improvements / development.

• End to end analytical projects: conduct internal analysis, research competitors, digest industry reports to recommend new strategies and then track the initiative and report on its impact

• Be proactive with asking strategic data questions, ensuring that the right questions are being answered with appropriate level of rigor and that analyses lead to clear and actionable recommendations and impactful product changes

• Become well-versed in digital analytics tools to track and understand full-funnel performance

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in product-oriented quantitative analysis and decision science

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or other quantitative field
• Proven SQL experience, along with a solid understanding and experience with big-data environments
• Data modeling experience in Python or R
• Working knowledge of Machine Learning models and advanced statistical techniques
• Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to drive actionable insights; a proven influencer with excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to develop clear executive level presentations
• Expert data harmonization skills – questions every data point before relying on it
• Individual Contributor – can work with least guidance, and a Team Player – can mentor and guide individuals with passion for data

Requirements:

• Superior problem-solving skills. You know how to rip apart difficult problems and construct elegant solutions.
• Strategic toolkit: you can focus an organization on the key business levers and not get caught in the million daily tasks. You see the forest and the trees.
• Pragmatic: you know the 80/20 rule, and know when to boil the ocean and when not to. The solutions you develop are understandable and implementable.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong business acumen. You build profit and loss models in your sleep.
• Hands on. You roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.
• Self-directed. You check in regularly with your boss, but you can run with a ton of autonomy and can guide the tasks of your team.
• Team player.
• Not political.
• You play nice with others. People like working with you. 
• Competitive Spirit
• Inquisitive mind
• Desire to roll up your sleeves and dig into the work
• Ability to be self-directed and self-managed
• Ability and comfort of working with C-level executives

COMPANY

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices.

Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more.

What else you should know: 

• We’re a publicly-traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.  

CULTURE

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”). 

Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.