Senior Credit Manager

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The team

SoFi’s Credit team manages credit risk activities for our lending products (Student Loan Refinance, Private Student Loan, Personal Loan, Credit Card, and Mortgage) – including credit strategies / policies for new account origination and portfolio management, collections / recovery strategies and operations, and risk and operational data science and analytics. The team designs data‑driven strategies to ensure the growth in lending is consistent with the company’s risk appetite and helps create the products and experiences that put our members’ interests first.

The Senior Credit Manager will work in the Credit team and have responsibilities to analyze and evaluate data to develop and propose value‑added credit risk strategies and models for SoFi’s lending products, including Personal Loan, Student Loan Refinance, Private Student Loan, and Credit Card. The initial focus of the role will be on Personal Loan but the candidate may get opportunities to work on other lending products in the future.

The candidate will be responsible for independently developing and implementing Personal Loan underwriting strategies that meet our risk appetite, monitoring and analysing the risk trends within the portfolio to provide insights and recommendations for strategy enhancement opportunities. She / he will be part of the Credit team with 1LOD responsibilities.

The Senior Credit Manager will collaborate with cross‑functional teams such as Business Units, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Capital Markets, Product, Engineering, Legal and Compliance. Use business acumen, credit experience and quantitative and analytical skills to drive revenue, control risk, and provide value to the company and consumers.

The ideal candidate will possess a data‑driven analytics background and the strategic acumen to direct a function that draws strategic insights from data using database and statistical analysis tools to inform decisions and support SoFi’s overarching strategic goals relative to loss prevention and profit optimisation. They bring new ways of thinking, data sources, technologies, and capabilities to SoFi.

What you’ll do

• Innovate… Bring your brightest ideas to build algorithmic risk strategies. This means you will architect credit underwriting, pre‑screen targeting, and risk tier assignment.
• Data Driven… Your deep analysis will power the future of lending with an optimal real‑time data ecosystem – including multi‑product internal, bureau, third‑party, and alternative data sources and uses.
• Iterate, learn, innovate… We are all responsible for innovation and must embrace a test‑and‑learn mentality and data‑driven decision making.
• Collaborate… Work collaboratively with business partners such as Business Units, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Legal and Compliance to deliver successful business results. Partner closely with implementation teams to accurately drive new strategies to production.
• Control the risk and drive performance outcomes … Understand credit risk and develop approaches to mitigate loss and responsibly grow revenue. Monitor the performance of strategies and portfolios. Document and communicate results and escalates issues as necessary. Identify gaps / opportunities and drive actions.
• Challenge the status quo … Challenge others, continuously raise the bar, build better processes and attack hard problems to help us build the best products in the industry.
• Grow, grow, grow!… Be inspired by dynamic leaders and our rapidly growing business. We want you to be an inspired leader of tomorrow, so we are recruiting the best, brightest, and passionately quantitative team members.

What you’ll need

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

Pay range : $172,800.00 – $297,000.00

Payment frequency : Annual

This role is also eligible for a bonus, long‑term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and / or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.

The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.

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