Data Scientist (Fintech)

Location: Remote anywhere in the continental United States, or onsite at the corporate office in Utah

Company

hirify.global provides in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions and operates as a subsidiary of PROG Holdings, a fintech holding company.

What you will do

• Build, maintain, and improve decision systems and predictive models that support competitive advantage.
• Explore internal and external data sources to improve model performance.
• Design, implement, and evaluate in-market experiments for new algorithms, technologies, and processes.
• Prototype technology-driven solutions to business problems.
• Recommend and support strategic changes through rigorous analytics and creative problem solving.
• Identify, evaluate, and help implement advanced analytics methods.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional experience.
• Master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field such as mathematics, statistics, economics, engineering, physics, or computer science.
• Experience with R, Python, machine learning tools, and SQL.
• Experience applying advanced models to real-world problems.
• Ability to create rigorous research and evaluation designs.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and openness to learning as AI-enabled tools and workflows evolve.

Nice to have

• Experience in engineering environments.
• Knowledge of DevOps and Git.
• Experience using and implementing agentic AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, high-ownership, data-driven fintech environment.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus parental leave.
• Company-matched 401(k), paid time off, and volunteer hours.
• Tuition reimbursement, charitable gift matching, and an employee stock purchase program.
• Employee resource groups and necessary equipment and services.