Earnest

Senior Credit Strategy Analyst

Earnest

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $124,000 - $155,000 per year

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About the role

  • Own end-to-end implementation of credit and fraud policies for all product lines within Earnest decisioning platform, including testing, deployment, and validation to ensure accuracy and alignment with policy intent
  • Develop and optimize credit underwriting and fraud prevention strategies for personal loans, balancing growth, risk, and customer experience objectives
  • Analyze portfolio performance, approval funnels, and fraud trends to identify opportunities for strategy enhancements and loss mitigation
  • Design, test, and implement decision rules, segmentation strategies, and policy changes using data-driven experimentation frameworks
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations to ensure strategies are effectively deployed and monitored
  • Build dashboards, reporting, and monitoring frameworks to track credit and fraud KPIs, including approval rates, losses, and fraud rates
  • Support model and strategy governance through documentation, controls, and performance reviews

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in risk management within consumer finance, banking, or lending
  • 1+ years of experience implementing credit strategies within a loan decisioning platform (e.g., Alloy or similar systems)
  • Experience working with credit bureau data (e.g., Experian, TransUnion, Equifax) and alternative data sources
  • Strong knowledge of regulations, standards, and guidelines governing consumer lending
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and strategy development
  • Ability to independently analyze data, identify trends and anomalies, and translate insights into actionable recommendations
  • Experience working with decisioning platforms to implement and maintain credit and fraud strategies, including translating policy into production-ready rules and logic
Benefits
  • Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
  • Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
  • Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
  • Robust tuition reimbursement program
  • $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
  • Competitive days of annual PTO
  • Competitive parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythondata analysiscredit underwritingfraud preventiondecision rulessegmentation strategiesdata-driven experimentationloss mitigationportfolio performance analysis
Soft Skills
analytical skillscross-functional collaborationindependent analysiscommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingattention to detailactionable recommendationsorganizational skillsperformance review