Varo Bank

Data Scientist

• Strategic Ownership: Define, own, and drive the comprehensive Data Science roadmap (including AI/ML and causal inference) that directly translates into commercial outcomes across Varo’s core business verticals.
• Model Innovation & Delivery: Lead the development, validation, and production deployment of custom machine learning and statistical models that are critical for decision-making.
• Business Partnership: Serve as a strategic data consultant to executive leaders and business stakeholders, translating ambiguous commercial problems into rigorous analytical frameworks and actionable solutions.
• Data Integrity & Risk: Work closely with Data Engineering and Product teams to ensure the quality, accessibility, and lineage of new data sources. Ensure all models and analyses adhere to Varo’s risk framework and regulatory requirements for fairness and transparency.
• Operational Excellence: Establish and own the ML Model Performance Monitoring processes, ensuring deployed models maintain accuracy and business impact over time and are governed appropriately.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Attract, hire, mentor, and coach a high-performing team of Data Scientists, setting a high bar for technical rigor, business acumen, and cross-functional collaboration.

Head of Data Science

Strategy

• Lead Credit Strategy for New Products: Develop and implement credit strategies for new products, including underwriting, pricing, and credit policies from ideation to post-launch monitoring
• Analyze and Optimize: Conduct deep-dive analyses of KPIs to identify trends and understand portfolio performance. Propose and implement data-driven policy changes to improve risk-adjusted returns and customer experience
• Drive Experimentation: Design and execute A/B tests to optimize credit policies, user experience, and risk controls
• Inform and Influence: Present analysis and strategic recommendations to key stakeholders and executive leadership
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, Operations, and Legal teams to deliver best-in-class, compliant credit offerings
• Champion Best Practices: Build and maintain monitoring dashboards and develop performance tracking to ensure proactive risk management

Credit Strategy Director

Product Manager

• Own one or more of our credit products
• Develop and execute a product roadmap that drives growth and profitability
• Responsible for defining what success of the product means based on KPIs and performance
• Own the performance of key features: optimizing for meeting customer needs in terms of speed, convenience and access, while controlling for operational costs, losses and cost of implementation
• Use data and customer insights to deliver optimizations, improvements, and drive increased engagement
• Collaborate effectively with other groups to create solutions, including data science, design, user experience research, risk, operations and marketing
• Work closely with an agile team that involves design, engineers, marketing, legal and compliance to successfully execute and implement product features

Lead Product Manager, Lending

Director

• Work in our 2nd line of defense credit risk management team
• Independently evaluate and challenge credit strategies, by understanding the impact of any change on profitability through advanced credit analytics
• Review the usage of advanced machine learning models developed by data scientists in credit decisions, in order to ensure profitable outcomes
• Ensure credit extension decisions aligns with Varo’s Risk Appetite Framework
• Manage Credit Key Risk Indicators; perform analysis to enhance and evolve credit KRIs, ensuring metrics align with Varo’s Business Objectives and Risk Appetite
• Build and maintain monitoring dashboards; Perform portfolio analysis and generate actionable insights
• Spot emerging credit risk by developing and maintaining credit monitoring reports with a view on internal and external leading indicators and share analytic insights with key stakeholders
• Evaluate new alternative data and determine how best to utilize them
• Manage credit-related policies and ensure they are properly being applied in our lending products

Credit Risk Director

QA Engineer

• Review transaction monitoring alert, case and SAR notes, supporting documentation, rationale, and narratives
• Provide investigative feedback and quality assurance (QA) results in a clear and concise manner
• Thoroughly document the results of your quality assurance reviews and ensure that feedback enhances the quality of work within the department
• Identify and escalate common and/or repeat findings that require further action to remediate
• Collaborate with peer groups and leaders to ensure that identified errors are addressed within the established timeframe(s)
• Refine desktop investigative procedures, making process recommendations to increase efficiency and risk mitigation effectiveness, as needed

Quality Assurance Specialist – Financial Crimes

Compliance

• Collaborate with Marketing and Product teams to understand new products to review advertising and marketing materials for compliance with applicable laws, including Reg DD, Reg Z, Privacy laws including TCPA, and UDAAP
• Collaborate with Marketing on development and maintenance of the Compliance Marketing Guidelines, which operates as the Bank’s guide for marketing and advertising materials
• Review and edit marketing and advertising copy for social media, print, billboards, radio, TV, and marketing partnerships to ensure compliance with applicable regulations, including Reg DD, Reg Z, UDAAP/UDAP, FCRA, TCPA, etc.
• Advise the business on compliance requirements and related controls Collaborate with the Product and Operations teams on the development of products, services, and processes to build compliance into the products from the start
• Review and edit FAQs, procedures, and training programs related to deposit and lending products and services
• Perform analysis, reporting, determine root cause, and report periodically, with a focus on identifying patterns and areas of improvement within Compliance and business partners that could lead to customer harm

Senior Compliance Officer, Marketing & Advisory

Security Engineer

• Manage Varo’s vulnerability management program meeting the required SLAs
• Deploy patches to all of Varo’s endpoints and standalone servers
• Manage the onboarding of endpoints in a highly remote environment
• Develop strategies to mitigate risk on Varo’s endpoints including device trust, zero trust, and local password management
• Assist with incident response and purple team testing
• Investigate and resolve patching issues, including failed installations, conflicts, and performance impacts
• Generate regular reports on patch compliance, vulnerability status, and overall endpoint health. Maintain accurate documentation of all patching procedures and configurations

Senior Security Engineer

Financial Crime

• Conducting Investigations into potential internal employee fraud, misconduct, and abuse including third party vendors/contractors.
• Conduct interviews, review transaction monitoring alerts, and investigate complex and high-priority cases.
• Drive process improvements and control enhancements, coordinating with the analytics team to ensure effective integration.
• Identify suspicious activity in case investigations and make appropriate filings/notifications.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with various teams to resolve escalated issues.
• Review extensive datasets from internal systems and tools, analyzing the data and extracting key insights.
• Support adjacent fraud governance workflows as needed, contributing to broader risk management initiatives.

Senior Financial Crimes Analyst, Internal Investigations

Manager

• Design and execute Varo’s Business Resiliency Program
• Facilitate the annual completion of the enterprise Business Impact Analysis to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements for business processes, applications, and the overall enterprise
• Liaise with key business, technology, and application teams to set recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, service level agreements with vendors, convey business needs, and identify gaps
• Partner with business process and application owners to develop and maintain Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies and plans
• Develop appropriate BC and DR testing scenarios and facilitate exercises with key stakeholders; collaborate to develop an annual test schedule and lead execution
• Report on test results, and prioritize and track the progress of any remediating actions with relevant working groups and committees
• Provide relevant material and lead conversations with external regulatory partners on BC
• Assess business resiliency of current or proposed third-party relationships and work with Third Party Risk Management when reporting on events experienced by a third party
• Assess technology resiliency of current and proposed technology solutions; act as a consultant for resiliency programs
• Create documentation, including incident ticket, root cause analysis and coordinate remediation plan completion for third party and internal incidents
• Monitor internal and external environments for potential events that may impact Varo, collaborating with relevant stakeholders to manage notifications and communications
• Work with the Crisis Management Team during disruption events and facilitate post-mortem analysis of events and track key remediation actions through completion
• Monitor and track program compliance and effectiveness through KRI and KPI metrics and prepare management and board reports on business and technology resiliency
• Provide ongoing SME guidance and assistance on business resiliency and business continuity matters, including creating or administering training and awareness presentations or materials
• Work with Human Resources to identify potential events that require activation of BC or DR plans and communicate with impacted stakeholders

Business Resilience Manager

IT Support

• Manage and lead the internal core vendor team to ensure successful implementation and maintenance of our core banking platform.
• Develop deep knowledge of our bank infrastructure to inform technical product requirements.
• Lead projects for new system implementations or major upgrades to existing platforms.
• Diagnose and resolve issues with the core banking or money movement systems, often by providing expertise on transaction flows and account structures.
• Connecting the core banking system with other applications and services, such as mobile banking and digital payment systems.
• Ensure the system adheres to security protocols and regulatory standards, including data integrity and consistency.
• Working closely with various stakeholders, including IT teams, customer operations and business users, to define requirements and ensure operational readiness.
• Lead team planning and delivery routines
• Monitor vendor performance, understand the "why" of your domain, and propose improvements.
• Own the release management process and delivery.
• Drive the core platform strategy and create capabilities that application teams can leverage to have a direct impact on our end-user experience.
• Evangelize core banking and money movement vendor roadmap internally and externally in informal and formal settings.

Senior IT Manager, Core Banking

Lead Credit Strategy Manager

• Contribute to the Asset Liability Management strategy by helping manage and forecast the firm’s cash & liquidity position, capital, investments and funding needs to support our growth
• Support the production of risk metrics for liquidity, interest rate risk and capital management
• Develop and/or implement cash flow, balance sheet, and interest rate risk models to optimize and manage the liquidity, capital and interest rate risk of the firm within risk appetite
• Assist in the management of the firm’s investment portfolio including trading, settlement, and collateral movement
• Ad-hoc requests and analysis as needed

Treasury Manager

Operations

• Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.
• Gain hands-on experience in Payment Banking Operations!
• As a Banking Operations Intern, you'll play a vital role in supporting our team by assisting with processing Payment Transactions. This is a fantastic opportunity for individuals who are curious about Banking, Operations, and the overall Financial Ecosystem.
• Position: Paid Part-Time Internship
• Time Commitment: Approximately 20 hours per week
• Schedule: Flexible hours, to be scheduled Monday-Friday between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM
• Duration: 2-3 months