VP, Strategic Analytics — Card Risk & Growth

Archer; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer collaborates with JPMorgan Chase to identify and place exceptional professionals for strategic analytics roles in risk management.

The Vice President, Strategic Analytics will lead development and optimization of acquisition credit criteria and underwriting policies, balancing growth with risk control. You will drive cross-functional initiatives, present insights to senior leadership, and shape governance for credit criteria across consumer and business lending.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in risk management, credit strategy, analytics, consumer/business lending, or financial services.
• Demonstrate hands-on ownership of acquisition credit criteria, underwriting policy, or credit decision frameworks.
• Strong ability to balance growth, profitability, customer experience, and risk in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Own Business Card acquisition credit criteria, including underwriting policies, risk segmentation, approval cutoffs, and decision rules.
• Analyze portfolio performance and emerging risk trends to identify opportunities to improve risk-adjusted growth and customer outcomes.
• Develop analytical solutions using SAS, SQL, Python and visualization tools to evaluate policy performance and tradeoffs.
• Optimize acquisition strategies by balancing approval rates, delinquency/loss outcomes, profitability, and regulatory requirements.
• Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders and business partners.
• Lead end-to-end implementation of credit criteria changes, including requirements, testing, and reviews.

Skills

Risk management

Credit analytics

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Data Science, or related quantitative discipline

Tools

SAS

SQL

Python

Tableau

Job description

Archer collaborates with JPMorgan Chase to identify and place exceptional professionals for strategic analytics roles in risk management.

The Vice President, Strategic Analytics will lead development and optimization of acquisition credit criteria and underwriting policies, balancing growth with risk control. You will drive cross-functional initiatives, present insights to senior leadership, and shape governance for credit criteria across consumer and business lending.