Staff Data Scientist — Strategic Analytics Leader (Equity, PTO)

Flex; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity

401(k) plan with company match

Unlimited paid time off + 13 holidays

Parental leave

Free Flex subscription

Job summary

Flex, a NYC headquartered FinTech, seeks a Staff Data Scientist to guide analytics projects across Go-To-Market and Account Management. You will champion truth-seeking and bring data-led storytelling to strategic decisions, balancing rigor with business impact.

The role is hybrid with on-site 3 days per week at our New York headquarters, reporting to the Director of Analytics. You will build dashboards, establish causal links, and drive improvements across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of analytics work supporting critical business outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree required in finance/economics or related field.
• Strong communication and ability to simplify complex concepts for business audiences.
• Experience across diverse analytical domains to tackle hard problems.
• Track record of driving business strategy from analytics insights.
• Proficiency with SQL and BI tools; ETL expertise with dbt and Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Create scalable analytic frameworks connecting business areas to outputs.
• Identify and fix data/performance issues across the business.
• Build and improve dashboards, visualizations, and automations.
• Establish causal links between actions and outcomes via experimentation.
• Bridge data insights with strategic priorities across departments.
• Promote documentation and standardized terminology within Analytics.

Skills

5+ years analytics experience

Finance/Economics degree

Expert communicator

Cross-domain analytics

Business impact emphasis

SQL

BI tools (Tableau, Mode, Looker)

dbt & Snowflake ETL

Quantitative problem solving

Ownership mindset

Biased for action

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Mode

Looker

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

Flex, a NYC headquartered FinTech, seeks a Staff Data Scientist to guide analytics projects across Go-To-Market and Account Management. You will champion truth-seeking and bring data-led storytelling to strategic decisions, balancing rigor with business impact.

The role is hybrid with on-site 3 days per week at our New York headquarters, reporting to the Director of Analytics. You will build dashboards, establish causal links, and drive improvements across the organization.