Data Scientist

About the role

Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 790,000 businesses and more than 2.75 million active savers, with over $57 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States.

Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.

Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers. To learn more, visit vestwell.com

Who Are We Looking For?

Vestwell is expanding and we’re keen to add an amazing Data Science role to our team. Someone who’s passionate about maths and algorithms to extract deep insights from large data sets, who will work primarily with our Cortex/AI solution, implementing ML and predictive analysis to help Vestwell see further into both the past and the future. We’re looking for someone who loves to solve problems and is driven to build great solutions. You will work across all our product lines - translating end-user needs into focused, actionable steps, that result in timely data products. You will help refine and execute our product vision, improving the requirement-intake process, and implementing new processes on a quarterly basis. Vestwell is a continuously evolving data engine at its heart.

If you are someone who dives into whatever challenge is placed in front of you, you will find yourself involved in the planning and coordinating our overall AI-BI solutions, working with our Technical Director and his data engineering team to develop new research models and predictive analysis tooling.

What Will You Be Doing?

- Understand high-level strategic initiatives and stakeholder requirements; identify opportunities; and translate inputs into buildable features with clear benefits

- Effectively communicate and share plans and rationales

- Partner with developers to break down product requirements into discrete tasks with clear functional requirements/acceptance criteria

- Provide constant and iterative feedback to the development team, including identifying bugs and assisting in resolution

- Complete functional testing and provide initial product sign-off when features are ready for end-user verification

- Develop processes and tools for tracking usage trends and allow data to inform future development plans

Requirements The Necessities

- Graduate degree in data science or heavily-weighted category

- Ability to define and plan overall ML strategy with our Technical Director

- Ability to define and write algorithms