Data Lead - Fintech

About this role

Responsibilities

• By using strategic thinking based on the FinTech business function and company’s strategy, help the team to identify, understand, structure, and solve complex problems across payments, fraud prevention, credit risk, and payout operations, and improve and productionize high-value data products
• Owning and advancing fraud prevention data procedures, balancing customer experience with risk mitigation. Guide the team on identifying fraud patterns, building creditworthiness models, and ensuring the right balance between prevention and user conversion
• Motivating your team to deliver amazing data products by focusing on the outcome rather than output, besides ensuring that the team has the right level of information to make informed decisions across all FinTech domains
• Aligning with your stakeholders to deliver the highest impact with available capacities, always seeking to improve the existing and striving for decisions and actions that drive our business’s success
• Ensure we are launching valuable experiments, with reliable test designs, besides using statistical methods to measure the impact of FinTech features and risk-related improvements, and make sure that we are launching the correct changes in our financial products
• Mentoring and coaching team members in order to help them grow professionally to the next level, cultivating a growth and continuous learning mindset, leading by example and being a role model
• You will steer our FinTech products’ data strategy, informing which features should be developed and which changes should be made to ensure safe, scalable, and efficient financial flows for millions of users
• You have curiosity in your essence, which motivates you to answer WHY things happened, not only scratching the surface, but aiming for well-founded actionable results
• Previous experience in leading and developing top performing data teams, preferably within tech, product, or FinTech organizations. Experience managing cross-functional teams with mixed data disciplines (Analysts, Scientists, Engineers) is highly valued
• Exceptional analytical skills, lateral thinking, and proven experience in solving highly challenging problems
• A history of leading and supporting successful data projects and the ability to define and communicate project objectives, resources, timelines and methodologies clearly to all stakeholders
• Understanding of payment processes, fraud prevention, and credit risk. Familiarity with industry standards, fraud patterns, and creditworthiness modelling is a strong advantage
• Hands-on mentality, not afraid to proactively get their hands dirty in order to accelerate the generation of new insights

Requirements

• Very good knowledge of SQL, databases, and statistical programming tools (e.g. Python, R)
• Good understanding and hands-on experience in analysing and interpreting A/B test results, backed by statistical knowledge. Experience in causal methodologies is a plus
• You understand how to engage and influence decision-makers by using data visualisation and storytelling
• Have excellent English communication skills, being capable of interacting and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders in steering end-to-end processes and projects
• Hybrid working models
• Subsidised gym membership
• Sabbatical & time off
• Partner product discounts
• Birthday-off
• Personal development budget
• Mobility budget for FREENOW App
• Employee assistance program

About FREENOW

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride?