SMB Analytics & Data Science Lead

Ocrolus Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocrolus Inc. is seeking a Lead Credit & Risk Data Science/Analytics in New York, NY.

You will analyze large, unique datasets around business cash flow, credit, and risk to build data products and predictive models, interfacing with clients and cross-functional teams to drive impactful decisions. Bring 7+ years in risk/analytics, expertise in modern DS tooling, and a passion for translating business problems into data science solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in risk management, analytics, and/or data science.
• Significant knowledge of small business credit and underwriting.
• Expertise with LLMs and cutting-edge AI tools to create products.
• Full stack data-science/analytics experience from ideation to deployment.
• Strong understanding of statistics, probability, and ML algorithms.
• Strong software/data engineering fundamentals with production ML mindset.
• Excellent programming in Python and core data science libraries; proficient in SQL.
• Portfolio of past data science/analytics accomplishments (including source code).

Responsibilities

• Analyze large, diverse datasets to derive insights and inform product opportunities.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and leadership to develop data products.
• Lead analytics and data science efforts, mentoring others.
• Interact with clients as a SME on small business credit and Ocrolus analytics.
• Develop scalable models balancing complexity, interpretability, and business needs.
• Translate business challenges into well-defined DS problems.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle of data science models from exploration to production monitoring.
• Explore examples like fraud detection, risk scoring, and credit profiling.

Skills

Risk management

Analytics

Data science

LLMs & AI tools

Production ML

Statistics & ML theory

Software engineering fundamentals

Communication skills

Tools

Python

Pandas

Scikit-learn

Hugging Face

SQL

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Job description

Lead Credit & Risk Data Science / Analytics

New York, United States

Come build at the intersection of AI and fintech. At Ocrolus, we’re on a mission to help lenders automate workflows with confidence—streamlining how financial institutions evaluate borrowers and enabling faster, more accurate lending decisions.

Our AI workflow and analytics platform for lenders is trusted at scale, processing nearly one million credit applications every month across small business, mortgage, and consumer lending. By integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source AI models with our human-in-the-loop verification engine, Ocrolus captures data from financial documents with over 99% accuracy. Thanks to our advanced fraud detection and comprehensive cash flow and income analytics, our customers achieve greater efficiency in risk management, and provide expanded access to credit—ultimately creating a more inclusive financial system.

Trusted by more than 400 customers—including industry leaders like Better Mortgage, Brex, Enova, Nova Credit, PayPal, Plaid, SoFi, and Square—Ocrolus stands at the forefront of AI innovation in fintech. Join us, and help redefine how the world’s most innovative lenders do business.

The Small Business team at Ocrolus uses our massive and unique dataset of cash flow, credit, and financial data from the market’s most sophisticated lenders to build high-quality data products empowering lenders to make better credit, fraud, and operational risk decisions. This role will lead our efforts to mine internal, client, and partner data for unique insights and develop data products, predictive models, and analytical tools that leverage the power of the Ocrolus network. You will analyze large and unique datasets, interact as a subject matter expert with clients and prospects, and work with excellent colleagues in product, engineering, and revenue to bring transformational data products to market. If you are a curious, high-agency analytics leader who wants to leverage your experience in SMB credit risk and strong technical skills to drive outsize impact, we want to talk to you!

What you’ll do

• Analyze large, diverse, and unique datasets around business cash flow, financial health, credit, marketplace dynamics, and repayment performance to unearth powerful insights and identify compelling product opportunities.


• Partner with Product, Engineering, senior management, and other stakeholders to develop and commercialize analytical and data products that will drive impact for our clients and gain adoption in the market.


• Lead Ocrolus’ analytical and data science efforts to research and develop new data and decisioning products, including mentoring colleagues from a business and technical standpoint.


• Interact with clients and prospects as a subject matter expert on small business credit and the Ocrolus suite of analytics and decisioning products.


• Develop robust, scalable, and efficient models, thoughtfully balancing algorithmic complexity against interpretability, customer needs, and delivery timelines.


• Translate ambiguous business challenges into well-defined data science problems


• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data science models, from data exploration and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement in production


• Examples of SMB analytics initiatives include: using agentic pipelines to enhance transaction classification, training gradient boosting trees to predict loan default probability and loss-given-default based on transactional cash flow data, building entity resolution systems to match financial data across time with a specific merchant, mining massive internal and partner datasets to build agentic fraud detection systems, resolving data signals from across the Ocrolus network to build a comprehensive and contextualized profile of small business financial health and debt capacity

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years of professional experience in risk management, analytics, and/or data science, building decision strategies and building/deploying predictive models in a production environment


• Significant knowledge of small business credit, including underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management


• Expertise and hands‑on curiosity with using LLMs and cutting‑edge AI tools to create novel products and solutions


• Full stack data‑science/analytics experience: ideating, building, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production ML models that solve real‑world needs


• Deep understanding of statistics, probability, and machine learning algorithms


• Strong software engineering and data engineering fundamentals. Excellent programming skills in Python and proficiency with core data science libraries (e.g., pandas, scikit‑learn, Hugging Face)


• Excellent SQL skills and comfort working with large and complex data warehouses (Snowflake/Postgres)


• The ability to communicate and present complex technical topics and results to various audiences. Skilled in collaborative and compelling communication with clients and prospects.


• Passion for understanding the “why” of the problem and the impact of solutions on client outcomes


• Experience working with messy, real‑world financial data (e.g., bank transaction streams, financial statements, credit reports)


• Portfolio of past data science/analytics accomplishments (including source code)

Note:

The full‑time salary range for this role is in the range of $230K-270K + equity + benefits. Base pay offered may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Disclosure as required by N.Y.C. Admin. Code §§ 8-102 and 8-107(32) of the full time salary compensation range for this role when being hired into our offices in New York City.

Life at Ocrolus

We’re a team of builders, thinkers, and problem solvers who care deeply about our mission — and each other. As a fast‑growing, remote‑first company, we offer an environment where you can grow your skills, take ownership of your work, and make a meaningful impact.

Our culture is grounded in four core values:

Empathy – Understand and serve with compassion
Curiosity – Explore new ideas and question the status quoHumility – Listen, be grounded, and remain open‑minded
Ownership – Love what you do, work hard, and deliver excellence

We believe diverse perspectives drive better outcomes. That’s why we’re committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has a seat at the table, regardless of race, gender, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, or any other protected characteristic.

We look forward to building the future of lending together.