Senior Credit Risk Manager - Cards

Lendable Ltd

Job Overview

Location

Virginia

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Senior Credit Risk Manager - Cards at Lendable Ltd, a fast-growing UK-based fintech unicorn expanding into the US market, responsible for shaping credit decisioning, strategy, and portfolio performance for the US Cards business.
• Day to day: Build and optimize credit card portfolios with growth targets; define credit strategies; own end-to-end testing and experimentation; develop monitoring and analytics suites; create forecasting and valuation models; derive insights using Python and SQL; collaborate with product, engineering, data, and operations teams; monitor strategy effectiveness and drive improvements.
• About the team or company: Lendable is a profitable, investor-backed fintech (Balderton Capital, Goldman Sachs) with over 700 employees, known for rebuilding consumer finance products (loans, credit cards, car finance) using technology, AI, and new data sources to deliver credit in minutes; expanding into the US and UK markets to challenge legacy banking systems.
• What the person can learn or achieve: Gain ownership of high-impact credit risk decisions in a scaling fintech; deepen expertise in ML/AI-driven credit strategy, experimentation, and unit economics; influence investor reporting and portfolio valuation; work in small, resourceful teams solving complex financial problems with cutting-edge technology.

🎯 Requirements

• Daily coding experience with Python and SQL
• Proven experience in credit risk strategy within consumer lending or finance
• Deep understanding of experimentation, measurement, and statistical inference (power, significance, bias, causality, guardrails)
• Strong understanding of credit performance and unit economics in lending
• Strategic thinking and ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable decisions
• Collaborative, growth mindset with willingness to challenge assumptions

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working: hybrid or remote options with regular in-person connection opportunities
• Health coverage: support for physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover
• Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans
• Office meals & snacks: fully stocked kitchen and complimentary lunches by in-house chefs on in-office days
• Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes (select locations)
• Employee referral programme: competitive bonus for successful referrals

Skills & Technologies

Python

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About Lendable Ltd

Lendable is a UK-based fintech that operates an online consumer-lending platform using open-banking data and machine-learning underwriting to offer unsecured personal loans and car finance. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, it funds loans through an institutional peer-to-peer model, matching investors with borrowers seeking fast, fixed-rate credit. The company automates identity, affordability and risk assessment, providing near-instant decisions and same-day payouts while giving investors access to diversified consumer credit returns. Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, Lendable has originated more than £2 billion in loans without maintaining physical branches, focusing on transparent pricing and mobile-first customer experience.

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