Director of Decision Science

Director of Decision Science

London, hybrid (3 days in office). Competitive salary between £130000 - £150000 plus bonus

This is a senior opportunity to lead credit decisions within a fast-paced, product-focused environment. You will shape modelling strategy, guide a growing team, and play a central role in driving responsible growth.

The Company

They are a high-growth financial services business operating in the lending and embedded finance space. Data and decisioning sit at the heart of how they scale responsibly and support customers. The team is maturing and this new role joins the leadership group with strong influence across risk, product, and strategy.

The Role

• Lead credit decisioning strategy and model development.
• Stay hands on with modelling using XGBoost, GBM and related techniques.
• Oversee end-to-end model lifecycle from design to monitoring.
• Partner with risk, product, and engineering on decisioning and portfolio performance.
• Support a senior manager and analysts to deliver high-quality modelling.
• Collaborate with ML engineering teams without owning ML platform strategy.

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in credit risk and decision science.
• Hands on building and validating credit and scoring models.
• Solid Python and modelling skills across GBM-style approaches.
• Understanding of risk strategy, portfolio performance and trade-offs.
• Ability to lead while remaining practical and hands on.
• Comfortable working closely with product and senior stakeholders.

What They Offer

• Competitive base salary.
• Bonus.
• Share options.
• Hybrid working with strong cross-team collaboration.
• A senior leadership platform with scope to shape modelling standards.

How to Apply

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