Staff Data Scientist, Growth Marketing

Posted Yesterday
Easy Apply
Be an Early Applicant
San Francisco, CA
In-Office
145K-175K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Real Estate • Software • Financial Services
Flex splits your rent, and rent-associated costs, into smaller, stress-free payments throughout the month.
The Role
As a Staff Data Scientist, you'll analyze complex datasets, develop forecasting models, collaborate cross-functionally, and present insights to stakeholders to drive growth strategies for user acquisition and retention.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 2025 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?

About the role

As a Staff Data Scientist on the Growth Marketing team, you will leverage data to develop insights and implement growth strategies that maximize user acquisition and retention. This is a high-impact role that blends analytical expertise, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to drive Flex’s mission forward.

What you’ll do
  • Data Analysis & Problem-Solving: Analyze large, complex datasets to tackle diverse challenges using advanced analytical and statistical techniques.
  • Modeling & Forecasting: Develop and implement forecasting models to predict key performance metrics and assess their actual performance.
  • Decision Support: Use quantitative analysis, data mining, experimentation, and forecasting to uncover trends and inform decision-making.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, and Data Science teams to deliver actionable insights.
  • Tools & Reporting: Build sophisticated reporting and analytics tools to empower stakeholders with real-time, data-driven decision-making capabilities.
  • Performance Monitoring: Design and develop metrics and dimensions to track and evaluate product and business performance.
  • Strategic Communication: Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leadership, in clear and concise formats.
Key qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree is in Statistics or an equivalent quantitative field
  • 5+ years solid analytics/data science experience
  • Experience in data mining and analysis tools such as Python/ SQL etc
  • Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to collaborate and influence across functions
  • Robust business acumen, strategic thinking skills, and the ability to make informed judgments
  • Prior experience in the technology industry or a fast-paced, data-driven environment is preferred
  • Prior experience with underwriting/pricing strategy for consumer finance product a strong preference


The salary compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

  • For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $161,000-$175,000
  • For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $145,000-158,000

Life at Flex:

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.

We offer many employee benefits & perks. For full-time U.S based positions we offer:

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision available from Day 1
  • Company equity
  • 401(k) plan with company match (our company match kicks off at the beginning of 2026)
  • Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
  • Parental leave 
  • Flex Cares Program
  • Free Flex subscription

 For full time non-US employees, we offer

  • Competitive compensation + company equity
  • Unlimited PTO

Top Skills

Python
SQL
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
HQ: New York, NY
419 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

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.

Gallery

Gallery

Similar Jobs

Kajabi Logo Kajabi

Senior Data Scientist

Mobile • Software • Analytics
In-Office
Newport Beach, CA, USA
318 Employees
131K-174K Annually

Anthropic Logo Anthropic

Data Scientist

Artificial Intelligence • Natural Language Processing • Generative AI
Easy Apply
In-Office
2 Locations
57 Employees
275K-370K Annually

Airwallex Logo Airwallex

Senior Data Scientist

Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Financial Services • Generative AI
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
1800 Employees
150K-250K Annually

Notion Logo Notion

Data Scientist

Artificial Intelligence • Productivity • Software
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
1000 Employees
140K-235K Annually

Similar Companies Hiring

PRIMA Thumbnail
Travel • Software • Marketing Tech • Hospitality • eCommerce
US
15 Employees
Rain Thumbnail
Web3 • Payments • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Blockchain
New York, NY
40 Employees
Scotch Thumbnail
Software • Retail • Payments • Fintech • eCommerce • Artificial Intelligence • Analytics
US
25 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account