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San Francisco, California, United States
Remote only
✨ Real Impact, Real People: Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. Your work directly helps homeowners access their wealth, achieve financial flexibility, and realize life changing goals.
✨ Funding: With over $175M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, WestCap, Greylock, and Prudential, we’re scaling fast! You have the opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage.
✨ Game-changing Product: We're building a category defining company in home equity. We’ve earned a 4.7 Trustpilot rating and an A+ from the BBB, a testament to the value we provide to our 20,000+ customers.
✨ Great Place to Work: Our employees love working here! We are a Certified Great Place to Work and a Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area.
✨ Remote First Culture, Genuine Connection: Work from anywhere in the U.S., while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture.
Local or 100% Remote
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing data team. You will be responsible for building and deploying machine learning models to support marketing, customer engagement, and core business use cases. You will also monitor model performance, identify and mitigate model deterioration, forecast business outcomes, and maintain high-quality datasets. The role is not limited to working on machine learning and model development and will also include, but not limited to advanced analytics projects such as root-cause analysis, identifying trends in data and building time-series projections.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone advanced in their data science career to enhance their skills in applied machine learning while working closely with other senior data scientists, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
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About You
Compensation at Point will be determined by skills, experience, and geographic location. Point has identified the expected annual base salary for this role at this level based on the market by tiers (Region | Location | Market Salary):
This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including equity, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position, we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role and level utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources as references. At the offer stage, we use the signal we received from our interviews, coupled with your experience, location, and other job-related factors, to determine final compensation.
Location Requirement: This is a remote position. However, candidates must reside in one of Point’s states of operation: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.
Generous health benefits: We provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with options for flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA).
Unlimited paid time off: Recharge with unlimited paid time off and 10 company holidays.
Flexible remote and onsite work: Our teams work from many different locations and time zones. We support fully remote work and also have an amazing in-person environment in our downtown Palo Alto, CA HQ.
Fully paid parental leave: Point will supplement state Paid Family Leave (PFL) so employees receive 100% of their regular base pay, plus two additional weeks of fully paid leave after state PFL ends. In states without PFL, Point offers up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave. In addition, employees also receive 4 weeks of fully paid transition time, during which you may work 2–3 days per week while receiving full base pay.
Equity: We offer meaningful equity because we believe in sharing the value you help create. Your contributions directly impact our growth, and your equity gives you a stake in our future success.
Financial wellness: We provide 401K retirement plans for employees as well as guaranteed life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
Extra work/life benefits: We provide monthly stipends for internet, mobile plans, wellness perks, a one-time home office reimbursement, and company provided equipment including a MacBook and monitor.
Point is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Point brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn.