Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?
As a Staff Data Scientist, reporting to our Director of Analytics, you will play a critical strategic role in shaping Flex's future by guiding key analytics projects across our Customer Support, Finance, Go-To-Market, Marketing, Product, and Strategy teams. You will champion truth seeking across the business, working to bring clarity to some of Flex’s most challenging and complex areas. Through your technical expertise and mastery of data-led story telling, you improve our understanding of the business and where we can make improvements. The ideal candidate for this role is intensely curious, holds themselves to a high analytical bar, while simultaneously balancing analytical rigor with speed and ultimate business impact.
We currently have multiple roles open across Flex Analytics and are prioritizing analyst support for Product, Partnerships and GTM domains.
What you’ll do
- Improve our understanding of key Flex domains by creating scalable frameworks that connect dots across the business into easily interpretable outputs
- Proactively and effectively root cause data and performance issues across the business in order to ensure continued strong performance
- Create and improve dashboards, visualizations, and automations that help us scale analytics across Flex
- Work to establish clear causal links between actions and outcomes through experimentation and other relevant methods, where applicable
- Combine data and strategy - being that bridge between what the data is telling us and the implications for strategic priorities within different areas of the business
- Champion best practices, precise and consistent terminology, and robust documentation within Analytics and more broadly across the organization
Key qualifications
- 5+ years of experience using analytical and statistical methods to support and drive critical business outcomes
- Expert communicator who can break down complex technical concepts into simple business vernacular
- Experience across a variety of analytical domains that allow you to bring unique perspectives to solving hard problems
- Demonstrated success driving business strategy and outcomes from an analytics lens
- Advanced experience with SQL, business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Mode, Looker, etc.)
- Experience with ETL processes, especially utilizing dbt and Snowflake
- Track record of using quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills to drive decisions
- Biased for action - knows when to not let perfect be the enemy of good enough, while also can effectively highlight the tradeoffs/risks of moving too quickly too soon
- Strong ownership mindset with a deep natural curiosity to dive into the details and understand how systems work
This role is hybrid with on-site expectations of 3 days per week in our New York Headquarters.
We also have offices in the Bay Area and Salt Lake City
Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, ensuring compensation is commensurate with a candidate's experience and our internal leveling guidelines. For candidates located in our Tier 1 markets (NYC/ SF), the base salary pay range for this role is $155,000—$194,000 USD.
For all other U.S. locations, Flex utilizes a geographic pay differential based on a cost of labor index. If you are located outside of the Tier 1 states listed above, your starting pay will be adjusted to align with the market conditions of your specific geographic zone. Please speak with your recruiter for additional information regarding the specific range for your location
We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
Offices
Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.
Benefits
For full-time U.S. employees we offer:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision
- Company equity
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
- Free Flex subscription
For full-time non-U.S. employees, we offer:
- Competitive compensation + company equity
- Unlimited PTO
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience using analytical and statistical methods
- Advanced experience with SQL
- Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Mode, Looker)
- Experience with ETL processes, especially utilizing dbt and Snowflake
- Strong ownership mindset and natural curiosity to dive into details
Flex Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Flex and has not been reviewed or approved by Flex.
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Healthcare Strength — Day-1 medical, dental, and vision coverage is explicitly offered and framed as “best-in-class coverage and options,” suggesting strong baseline health benefits. Additional listings also describe broad health-support elements such as IVF/adoption and gender transition benefits, reinforcing depth in healthcare-related coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) is available, with a stated company match starting in early 2026, indicating improving retirement support. This rollout appears to address earlier gaps where matching was not consistently present.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO plus company holidays (and, in some descriptions, shutdown days) indicates a wide time-off policy on paper. Hybrid work flexibility and office-day meal credits can add to the overall rewards value for NYC-based employees.
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What We Do
Flex, an NYC-headquartered FinTech company, has created a trusted rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2024 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult; we’re here to change that! We enable our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget, while also helping them build credit. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense.
Why Work With Us
We believe it takes a diverse team of curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. We value the unique and dynamic perspectives our team brings to solve critical problems that impact the lives of our users and the financial decisions they make.
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