Director, Lending Strategy

About Caribou 

At Caribou, we’re on a mission to help drivers save money and take control of their car payments. We use technology to unlock low rates and a team of great people to make the process easy and enjoyable. We offer a fully online application and a dedicated team to walk you through the process. We put Drivers in control.

Caribou is a fast-growing company built by leaders from the technology, automotive, and finance industries. We’re proud to be backed by a great team of investors, including QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures and others.

About the Role

Caribou is seeking a Senior Manager, Lending Strategy to help define and support the strategy, objectives, and key results of its lending team.  In this role, you will be responsible for providing strategic insight and analytical support to our lending organization across all functions.  The Senior Manager, Lending Strategy will be part of our lending solutions team and will work day-to-day with our Chief Lending Officer.  Your responsibilities will include:

• Clearly define strategic opportunities and risks: current and future lending products, customer segments, and geographic footprint
• Research, design, and evaluate white space lending product and partnership opportunities
• Identify macro- and micro-economic trends, and assess likely impacts on our overall lending strategy 
• Drive strategic decisions, crisply framing a solution set, identifying potential paths and tradeoffs, and accelerating time-to-market 
• Own the OKR process, collaborating with lending team leads to develop metrics and dashboards, and organize regular reviews with each group
• Lead our team’s high-level operating cadence: monthly functional reviews, quarterly strategic planning sessions, and more
• Work with individual lending team leads to strengthen process flows, best practices, and scaling ability within their groups
• Proactively escalate and resolve potential issues across the lending team by calling them to the attention of leadership and identifying potential solutions

This role can be based out of Caribou offices in Washington, DC; Denver, CO; Austin, TX. Alternatively, the role may be based remotely within the U.S. Caribou currently requires that all personnel and visitors to any of its offices are fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.  As a result, candidates must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be eligible for this position (subject to any exemptions or accommodations due to medical or religious reasons).

About You

You:

• 3-5 years of experience at a top management consulting, investment banking, or similar work at a fintech company
• Excellent analytical skills, including comfort working with large data sets and proactively identifying relevant analyses and takeaways
• Proven ability to track, prioritize, and steer multiple concurrent projects to success using data to track progress along the way
• Strong Excel and Powerpoint skills
• Entrepreneurial, with high tolerance for a fast-moving organization, and efficient with limited resources
• Deep personal drive to help people improve their financial lives

Bonus points for:

• MBA
• Experience with SQL and business intelligence applications

How we will take care of you

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member, and we always strive to live up to our value Take Care of Each Other. Our compensation and benefits package includes: 

• Competitive compensation: $170-$200k annual salary 
• Equity in a high-growth company
• 401k savings program with 3% company contribution
• Generous paid time off including: 20 days accrued PTO per year, 14 annual company holidays, 16-weeks paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and volunteer day
• Robust wellness benefits including company-paid plans for health, dental, vision, mental health, disability and basic life insurance
• Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs, FSAs, supplemental life and medical insurance, and pet insurance
• Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses

Our Core Values

We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values, which guide our work. This helps us improve life for our customers, our communities and our team members.

• See people as people
• Take care of each other
• Commit to the mission
• Move quickly and bravely
• Get better every day
• Seek truth

Caribou is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, marital status, military or protected veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above, and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.