Data Science Chief Of Staff

• Act as the DS Director's right hand with full visibility across a fast-scaling Data Science and Credit Risk organisation that builds and runs the decisioning, pricing, and credit models behind every Abound product. • Take on a high-impact role for someone early in their career who is exceptionally curious and operates with real autonomy. • Ensure the DS and Risk team works on the right business priorities, delivers at pace without unnecessary bureaucracy, and operates with great discipline and consistency.

• Bring 2–4 years of experience in a quantitative, analytical, or operational role such as data science, analytics, management consulting, fintech, or similar. • Be genuinely curious about how lending and credit models work, comfortable enough in SQL/Python to look at the data yourself. • Be demonstrably autonomous, able to point to things you started, built, or fixed without being asked. • Be ruthlessly organised and a clear writer, turning chaos into structure and never dropping a thread. • Be low ego and high ownership, equally happy presenting to the exec team and fixing an interview scheduling mix-up. • Be curious but structured, ambitious but humble, earning authority by being consistently right and useful.

• Have experience managing projects end-to-end, for example as an engagement manager in a consulting firm. • Bring experience with model monitoring, performance drift tracking, or data quality alerting. • Have experience running change control processes or governance approvals for analytical models. • Have experience running hiring pipelines end-to-end including interview quality and onboarding.

• Maintain the single trusted view of all DS and Risk work across product verticals covering status, owners, risks, and dependencies. • Chase blockers, connect people who should be talking, and make sure commitments actually land. • Surface problems early and drive them to fast resolution. • Build and run the monitoring layer across the model estate covering performance drift, stability, data quality, and alerting. • Define and run the rituals that catch problems early including model health reviews, incident follow-ups, and documentation checks. • Coordinate model deployments and bug fixes and monitor the health of services and decisioning APIs day to day. • Run the core operating rhythm of the DS organisation including planning cycles, delivery reviews, and team learning forums. • Manage the change control process, ensuring senior stakeholders explicitly approve material changes to decisioning models and monitoring post-change impact vs. expectation. • Prepare crisp, decision-ready material for the DS Director, CRO, and exec team. • Manage dependencies across DS verticals, credit risk, engineering, product, and compliance. • Run the DS hiring engine end-to-end covering pipeline tracking, interview quality, and onboarding. • Help scale the team's knowledge sharing, documentation, and ways of working. • Reduce the Director's overhead on coordination, tracking, and follow-up, creating space for focus on credit strategy and model innovation.

Abound is one of the most exciting fintech stories in the UK right now. In just five years, the co-founders have built a profitable, fast-growing lending platform that was named the UK's number one fastest-growing tech company by The Sunday Times in 2026, with nearly 500% annual revenue growth. The company generated £69 million in revenue and £9 million in profit before tax in 2024, which is remarkable given that, among the top 15 high-growth UK companies tracked by Sifted, Abound was the only profitable one. They have secured £2.2 billion in lending capacity from Citi, Deutsche Bank, Waterfall, and others, and have been listed among the top 250 global fintechs by CNBC. What makes Abound especially interesting as a place to work is the leadership pedigree: Gerald Chappell was previously a Partner at McKinsey and EY, where he led digital lending and credit analytics solutions globally, while Dr Michelle He was a Director at EY with a PhD in machine learning. The broader leadership team brings experience from Goldman Sachs, Citi, Airbnb, and other major institutions. The UK Glassdoor entity sits at 4.6/5, with every single employee recommending it to a friend. What comes through in reviews is the flat structure, data-driven culture, quick career progression, and the chance to learn directly from seriously experienced leaders. Everyone gets equity ownership, a 30-day paid sabbatical after 4 years, a free WellHub membership, and plenty of team socials. A couple of things worth knowing: some Glassdoor reviews flag high targets and performance pressure, and Abound runs a hybrid model from its London offices rather than being fully remote. That said, if you want to be part of a profitable, rapidly scaling UK fintech where your work has a real impact on making credit fairer for millions of people, Abound is a brilliant place to do it.

• Receive equity ownership in the company. • Work hybrid with 3 days a week in the London office. • Receive 25 days holiday a year plus 8 bank holidays. • Take 2 paid volunteering days per year. • Receive one month paid sabbatical after 4 years. • Access an employee loan benefit. • Receive free gym membership. • Enjoy a team wellness budget for group activities.

Abound is redefining consumer lending in the UK and beyond using advanced AI and Open Banking data to make fair, affordable personal finance available to more people. Rather than relying almost entirely on credit scores, Abound looks at the full financial picture to build a deeper understanding of each customer's situation. Having issued over £1.3bn in loans directly to customers with market-leading credit performance, the company reached profitability just 2.5 years after launch. Backed by £2bn+ of funding from investors including Citi, GSR Ventures, and Deutsche Bank, Abound is recognised as one of Europe's fastest-growing fintechs.