Director of Data Science

The posting, as Brigit wrote it

Hi, we're Brigit! A holistic financial health company helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future. With a business model that is aligned with our customers, we create transparent, fair, and simple financial products that put money back in the hands of our members, help them spend wisely, avoid unfair fees and build their credit quickly. If autonomy, ownership, and having meaningful input at the company you work for is important to you, come join our growing team!

Brigit is doing innovative and exciting work, but don’t just take our word for it, our work is being recognized by others:

• Built In's 2026 Best Midsize Companies to Work For in New York City https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2026/best-midsize-places-to-work#brigit
• Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work For In New York City https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2025/best-places-to-work#brigit
• Built In’s 2024 & 2025 Best Startups to Work For In the U.S. https://builtin.com/awards/us/2025/best-startup-places-to-work#brigit
• Built In’s 2023 - 2025 Best Startups to Work For In New York City https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2025/best-startup-places-to-work#brigit
• Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022 https://www.fastcompany.com/90724459/most-innovative-companies-personal-finance-2022
• Business Insider’s Most Promising Consumer Startups 2022 https://www.businessinsider.com/most-promising-consumer-tech-startups-of-2022-8#brigit-a-automated-money-lender-5
• Forbes Fintech 50 2022 https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabelcontreras/2022/06/07/the-future-of-personal-finance-fintech-50-2022/?sh=1fbbd36d5235

Role Overview

At Brigit, our Data Science team has been dramatically scaling its impact. We’re aiming to integrate new models across several product domains over the next year and continue to iterate and optimize in the areas of credit risk and payments, where we already have models deployed. We are looking for a leader to enable continued adoption of AI-assisted development and agentic workflows in how the team builds, evaluates, documents, and ships data science work. Doing this will require our team to grow, but it will also require a more concerted effort to plan and integrate with product teams, understand their roadmap, and explore projects that make sense in this context. To support this growth, we’d like to hire a motivated Director of Data Science to grow and lead this team to its maximum potential.

What you'll be doing

• Managing and growing a team of data scientists focused on modeling key business problems.
• Mentoring and guiding team members as they build out quantitative models in python using industry-standard techniques.
• Evangelizing the data science team’s capabilities and integrating with product, engineering and operations teams to build a roadmap and backlog of data science solutions with business impact.
• Running quarterly planning with the engagement of business stakeholders to ensure th

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any other compensation components or other benefits for which an individual may be eligible (other benefits listed below). The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Our Benefits & Team

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Annual Employer HSA Contribution
• Discretionary Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly reimbursement to use against wifi and/or cell phone bill
• Annual reimbursement for Learning & Development
• High-growth company helping hard working Americans build a brighter financial future
• A dynamic, flexible and collaborative start-up work environment with a highly talented team

Brigit is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy (including breast feeding and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email accommodations@hellobrigit.com.

Disclosures

• For information on our data privacy policies, see the Brigit California Personnel Privacy Policy https://www.hellobrigit.com/careers/personnel-privacy-policy.
• Brigit uses E-Verify for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.