Research Analyst

THE POSITION

The Research Analyst will use both public and proprietary data to develop research related to debt, savings and other personal finance trends that will be published across our portfolio of websites and promoted to media outlets to inform and serve the American consumer in engaging and novel ways. Particular emphasis will be on topics related to savings, investing and student debt, but the role will also cover topics related to personal debt, credit cards, auto loans, small business conditions, and credit worthiness.

The successful candidate will have a knack for creating interesting and valuable insights from reputable data sources, meet deadlines, maintain high quality standards, and be able communicate complex ideas to the general public. The research analyst collaborates with our subject experts, data scientists, as well as the outreach and editorial teams to ideate and execute published studies. A background in quantitative analysis or data journalism around finance, economics, or social/population trends, is recommended.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop compelling, original reports and analyses of consumer finance trends that use both public and proprietary LendingTree data.
• Design and conduct data analysis while maintaining the highest standards for quality and accuracy.
• Communicate findings and their significance effectively.
• Work collaboratively with other teams and professionals.
• Research new data sources and methodologies.
• Maintain awareness of which debt, credit, spending and other personal finance issues are of particular interest to the general public at any given time.
• Review current and past projects from the team to see where they can be or could have been improved.

Required Skills/Experience

• Experience in working with large datasets to create clean, comprehensive results
• Familiarity with financial, economic and population-study concepts
• Able to write studies for the media, and generate in-depth content for consumers
• Have a passion for personal finance and consumer debt issues
• Interest in working for a nimble, fast-paced company
• Ability to work independently on individual projects
• Creative and curious approach to using financial data to tell important and accessible stories
• Ability to break down complicated ideas and data into something relatable and easy to comprehend

COMPANY

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices.

Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more.

What else you should know:

• We’re a publicly traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.
• We still make funny commercials.

CULTURE

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”).

Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status