Partnership Strategy Associate
Avant is a high growth financial technology company, dedicated to lowering the barriers of borrowing for all consumers. Since 2012, Avant has secured more than $4 billion in funding and connected customers to over $5 billion through 800,000 transactions and counting. Through big data and machine learning, Avant’s mission is to provide better access to responsible financial products. Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com, for more information.
The Loan Growth Strategy team is helping revolutionize access to credit by applying data-driven analysis and innovative modeling approaches to our product, marketing, and overall business strategy.
As a part of the team, you will own relationships with our largest partners, leverage large data-sets to develop strategies and product features to enable volume growth and deepen relationships with our partners.
We are looking for someone with the desire to work with big data sets to develop and drive major strategy initiatives using product, customer, and marketing data to grow our partner relationships profitably. This person should have the desire to go beyond the analysis to realize their strategic plans, and to manage strategy from conception to implementation and monitoring.
What you own at Avant:
- Develop a testing road-map to determine how to profitably grow relationships with our largest partners
- Apply advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to optimize pricing and profitability of those partners
- Launch new partnerships and product experiences
What you do at Avant:
- Work on a team that owns business strategy and partnerships for the loan product.
- Analyze structured and unstructured data sets to help better understand our partner relationships and customers.
- Structure customer and partner data, analyze opportunity sizing and profitability, and work with key business stakeholders including C-level Executives to drive new initiatives and strategic planning.
- Collaborate with other teams including Risk, Marketing, and Engineering, on strategic initiatives across business units
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a field that requires quantitative analysis.
- Proficiency with Excel or a similar analytical tool (exposure to Tableau, Looker, Power Bi, or similar tools is a plus).
- Knowledge of SQL, Python or R (preferred).
- A quantitative and analytical orientation to decision making.
- Ability and interest in developing familiarity with new software languages and analytical tools.
- Experience with product / marketing analytics, or financial services is a plus.
- High level of inquisitiveness, initiative, and critical thinking.
- Proven ability to solve challenging problems while meeting tight deadlines.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and dynamic environment
Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.