About Figure 

Figure is transforming the trillion dollar financial services industry using blockchain technology. 

In three short years, Figure has unveiled a series of fintech firsts using the Provenance blockchain for loan origination, equity management, private fund services, banking and payments sectors - bringing speed, efficiency and savings to both consumers and institutions. Today, Figure is one of less than a thousand companies considered a unicorn, globally.

Our mission requires us to have a creative, team-oriented, and supportive environment where everyone can do their absolute best. The team is composed of driven, innovative, collaborative, and curious people who love architecting ground-breaking technologies. We value individuals who bring an entrepreneurial mindset to every task and will embrace our culture of innovation. 

Every day at Figure is a journey in continuous learning along with a focus on getting work done that makes a difference. Join a team of proven leaders who have already created billions of dollars in value in the FinTech space!

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About the Role

The Principal Data Analyst is a key team member supporting the business with analytics that enable quality, data-driven decisions. You will act as a consultative, engaged point of contact with a wide range of cross-functional business partners from finance, to data engineering, to marketing and everything in between!  You will help clarify and provide insights to strategic questions that span the whole organization.  You will use advanced data modeling, predictive modeling, and analytical techniques to interpret key findings from company data.  But we also don’t shy away from digging deep into the data with SQL and visualizations – if that is what is needed to solve a problem.  We are looking for a driven, data-loving, team player that will jump in and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

However, we aren’t just here to give good, well-researched answers – we also make sure the business is asking the right questions as well – and ensure these questions that can be adequately answered with the data we have available.  At times, this means seeking out new data sources to enable better understanding.

What you'll do

• Actively own relationships with a broad swathe of business teams (Finance, Compliance, Product, Marketing, Data Engineering and more).  You will be responsible for shaping and defining their questions before using high quality analytics to provide insights and drive significant growth.
• Gather requirements, guide and partner with cross-functional stakeholders as they navigate ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities.  
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques, and business strategies.
• Use analytical concepts and statistical techniques to develop hypothesis, design and test experiments, analyze data, draw conclusions and develop (and present) actionable recommendations for your business partners
• Use both descriptive and predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, underwriting as well as other business outcomes.
• Be a champion for data accuracy and consistent reporting.
• Develop Tableau visualizations that drive and optimize business outcomes
• Use your deep understanding of how our business processes operate – and the challenges and opportunities therein – to derive the datasets and metrics needed and then communicate those requirements clearly to our analytics engineers so they can build them

What we're looking for

• Expert ability to engage with business partners, get them to ask the right questions, and willingness to present your findings directly    
• 7+ years of professional experience manipulating and extracting value from large, complex datasets… all while making insights easy to consume for a general audience.
• You have solved multiple complex business problems through the use of data and have communicated your findings to executives on a regular basis
• You enjoy and appreciate the “sleuthing” aspect of digging in and figuring out exactly why a metric is behaving strangely (or not moving at all)
• You realize that a picture really can be worth 1000 words (or numbers) and painstakingly craft data visualizations for both improved understanding and communication
• Solid SQL Skills - while you don’t need to be an expert on all the intricacies of advanced SQL like stored procedures and recursive queries, you do need to be able to pull your own data from well-formed, cohesive, and clean tables provided by our analytics engineers
• Appreciation for the value of statistical thinking to help bring clarity around areas like causation, selection biases, and experimental design
• Excellent communication skills for coordinating across teams. There is a heavy emphasis on cross-functional work and you must be able to deal with ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities.
• Experience shaping questions asked by the broader business and answering them; these data-driven answers will facilitate and influence product strategy.

Bonus Points

• Fintech experience
• Hungry to learn and grow, especially from mistakes (we all make them)!
• Unsolved puzzles irk you.

Please note:  We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position