Remote Hybrid Full-time USD 182,300 – 252,500 / year

Upstart is hiring a Principal Credit Analyst

Responsibilities

  • Lead a core area of credit analytics, focusing on forecasting, valuation, or risk capital, and advance the development and refinement of systems used for portfolio oversight, planning, and strategic choices.
  • Improve methods for predicting credit losses, conducting scenario testing, and measuring portfolio outcomes to ensure results are precise, transparent, and actionable.
  • Support risk capital analysis and reporting efforts that inform funding approaches, including securitizations, warehouse lending, and forward-flow agreements, using performance tracking and risk-return assessments.
  • Turn analytical findings into strategic guidance that shapes product direction, credit underwriting standards, and funding strategies.
  • Collaborate with machine learning, finance, product, engineering, and capital markets teams to standardize metrics, definitions, and analytical frameworks across functions.
  • Design and expand data infrastructure such as models, pipelines, dashboards, and reporting systems to enable reliable, accessible insights for diverse stakeholders.
  • Strengthen analytical standards by defining best practices for validating, monitoring, and governing credit models and their outputs.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Remote, Columbus, Austin, Bay Area, New York City

Team

The team operates on West coast time zones.

Other

  • The team operates on West coast time zones
  • Majority of work can be accomplished remotely
  • Employees encouraged to spend high-quality time in-person via regular onsites
  • Onsite sessions occur once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days
  • For roles based in Canada, we are not currently able to hire in Quebec
  • Travel requirements: regular in-person collaboration via team onsites
About company
Upstart
Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand.
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Job Details
Department Data Analytics
Category other
Posted a year ago