Data Science Manager

About Nubank

Nubank was founded in 2013 to free people from a bureaucratic, slow and inefficient financial system. Since then, through innovative technology and outstanding customer service, the company has been redefining people's relationship with money across Latin America. With operations in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, Nubank is today the largest digital banking platform in the world outside of Asia and one of the leading technology companies in the world, reinventing over 40 million customers' financial lives.

Nubank achieved this by offering a no-fee credit card, entirely managed by a mobile app, and a digital account, free of taxes. Nubank also offers transparent and hassle-free personal loans, a business account tailored for SMBs, and life insurance. In 2020, Nubank acquired digital broker Easynvest, now called Nu invest, and became the leader in self-directed digital investments in Brazil. 

Throughout the years, Nubank raised around US$2 billion with some of the best-known growth and technology investors in the world, such as Berkshire Hathaway, Sequoia, DST, Tencent, Tiger, Kaszek, Founders Fund, Dragoneer, TCV, Redpoint, Ribbit, GIC, Whale Rock, Invesco, QED, and Capital Group.

Today, Nubank is a global company, with offices in São Paulo (Brazil), Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogotá (Colombia), Durham (United States) and Berlin (Germany). Nubank was founded in São Paulo by Colombian David Vélez, and cofounded by Brazilian Cristina Junqueira and American Edward Wible. For more information, visit www.nubank.com.br.

About the team

At Nubank we aim to empower our customers to take control of their financial lives. The Data Science team develops models and leverages its expertise to provide the best experience and products, using statistics, Artificial Intelligence, and lots of creativity to predict our customers' behaviors. Our team strives for cutting edge model development techniques, from Machine Learning to Reinforcement Learning and beyond. We're partnering with business and technology to make the speed of thought decisions possible.

Principles

As a Chapter, we identified a set of principles that guide behaviors we admire in each other and we pursue as a team:

• Diverse ensembles don't overfit;
• We reinforce each other's learning;
• Mind the person behind the data point;
• We share the same objective function;
• We trust our confidence interval;
• Pursue global maxima.

We are looking for an inspiring lead to join our Data Science team in a manager position. 

As a Data Science Manager, you will have the opportunity to partner with the rest of Nubank to help us innovate with machine learning to optimize the decisions we make and simplify the lives of our millions of customers. With your help, we will build the most defining financial technology company in the world, creating an immense impact for millions of customers. We will disrupt this market and bring competition and efficiency to an industry that urgently needs it.

About the role

As a Data Science Manager, you will:

• Innovate with Data Science & Machine Learning to optimize the decisions we make and bring competition and efficiency to the financial industry;
• Develop and grow high-performing individuals and teams of Data Scientists and ML Engineers;
• Define the vision of the team and help the team deliver on on top of it by setting clear goals and objectives, providing information and context, clearing obstacles, brokering consensus, and working quickly to close gaps in key resources and skills;
• Safeguard the team’s psychological safety, providing clear, specific, timely feedback, taking decisive actions to manage performance, advocating for recognition of the contributions of the team, and protecting the team from unproductive pursuits;
• Conduct performance reviews, participate in calibration, solicit feedback, and generally perform the administrative functions of people management;
• Translate the business needs into strategy, define roadmaps, and lead projects composed by cross-functional teams to deliver results.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to assess technical performance, manage resourcing plans, provide coaching and help their team members grow professionally (individually and collectively);
• Ensure that team members actively solicit input and feedback from experts who share the same technical backgrounds as their reports and from managers & leaders who can assess their performance;
• Have a good understanding of the software development lifecycle and the popular tools used in modern systems; 
• Understand, at a conceptual level, the specific concerns of the data science modeling life cycle including the steps of data preparation, model training, model management, logging, and monitoring of models in production;
• Be an excellent problem-solver, adept at working across multi-functional teams of engineers, analysts, product managers, and business leaders to address conflict, drive consensus, and make decisions in the best interests of the company;
• Support their teams in prioritizing their work, making smart & timely decisions, and executing at a high level of professional skill, quality, and speed.

Role Location

São Paulo, Brazil.

*Interviewing and onboarding are currently done virtually due to COVID-19. Everyone new to the team and our current staff will remain working from home until it is safe to return to our offices. When it’s time, we will require a fixed cadence of visiting the office in which employees go to their Business Unit's (BU) base location. Employees will have an employment contract based on the cities that Nu’s offices are located, considering their country of hire. More details can be shared during your hiring process.

Benefits

• Health, dental and life insurances
• Meal allowance
• Transportation assistance
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• Parking partnership - discounted parking in our office
• Free bike parking with showers available
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• Gympass partnership
• Extended maternity and paternity Leaves  
• Child care allowance
• ‘Espaço Feijão’- Private nursing and breastfeeding spaces in our buildings
• Onsite Health Center - Medical support for every Nubanker in our office

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Diversity & Inclusion

At Nubank, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.