Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Slate Auto is focused on building safe and reliable vehicles while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a strategic Director of Financial Services to develop analytics infrastructure and drive financial performance in their loan and ancillary product business.
Responsibilities
- Define goals for Slate’s auto loan and ancillary product offerings
- Align business goals with regulatory requirements and partner capabilities
- Work closely with engineering, design, and operations to deliver product and pricing changes on time
- Help prioritize backlog based on impact, effort, and strategic considerations
- Serve as the business owner for partner integrations, ensuring seamless data exchange, underwriting logic, and compliance alignment, defining requirements in collaboration with Slate’s digital team
- Analyze funnel performance, approval rates, and funding metrics to identify optimization opportunities and drive continuous improvement
- Use A/B testing and statistical methods to optimize profitability by varying pricing and attach rates
- Define and track KPIs such as approval rates, take rates, funding rates, and NPS
- Build dashboards and reporting tools to monitor health and inform decision-making
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in product management, analytics, or a quantitative role, ideally in automotive financial services
- Strong understanding of consumer lending, credit risk, and financial product lifecycle
- Strong statistical literacy and ability to think probabilistically
- Proficiency in Excel and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker)
- Experience working with data science teams and interpreting model outputs
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
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