Job Description

• Collaborate with a DevOps team to support and improve systems critical for seamless app deployment. 

• Support development teams by creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and reusable infrastructure templates. 

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring performance, scalability, and security. 

• Implement and maintain observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to monitor system health and performance. 

• Develop and update runbooks to document solutions for recurring issues and guide incident resolution. 

• Participate in on-call rotations, providing support to resolve critical issues and maintain system uptime. 

• Address unplanned tasks, such as incident resolution and urgent requests. 

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and AWS. 

• Proficiency in managing, scaling, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters. 

• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and creating infrastructure templates. 

• Practical experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting. 

• Experience with tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or similar, to streamline deployment processes. 

• Ability to create and maintain infrastructure templates and automation scripts. 

• Comfortable with participating in on-call rotations and addressing high-priority incidents. 

• Familiarity with additional observability tools or frameworks. 

• Experience with security best practices in cloud environments. 

What about languages?  

You will need excellent written and verbal English for clear and effective communication with the team.  

How much experience must I have?  

We're looking for someone with 4+ years' of experience in similar roles. 

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Life as a Lead Data Engineer at Blend

We are looking for someone who is excited by the idea leading a data engineering squad to develop best in class analytical infrastructures and pipelines.

However, they also need to be aware of the practicalities of making a difference in the real world – whilst we love innovative advanced solutions, we also believe that sometimes a simple solution can have the most impact.

Our Lead Data Engineer is someone who feels most comfortable around solving problems, answering questions and proposing solutions. We place a high value on the ability to communicate and translate complex analytical thinking into non-technical and commercially oriented concepts, and experience working on difficult projects and/or with demanding stakeholders is always appreciated.

Reporting to the Director of Data Engineering the role will work closely with the other Data Engineering Leads and other capabilities in the organisation such as the Data Science, Data Strategy and Business Development teams.

This role will be responsible for driving high delivery standards and innovation within the data engineering team and the wider company. This involves delivering data solutions to support the provision of actionable insights for stakeholders.

Our Data Engineering Leads remain hands-on and work with the Data Engineers within their squad.

What can you expect from the role?

• Lead project delivery, covers overseeing the end-to-end delivery of projects and ensure robust project governance from a Data Engineering perspective.
• Squad management, responsible for managing a team of Data Engineers, from Junior to Senior levels, covering resource utilization, training, mentoring, and recruitment.
• Stakeholder engagement by preparing and present data-driven solutions to stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights.
• Data pipeline ownership by designing, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines.
• Domain expertise by keeping up to date on emerging trends and advancements within data ecosystems, ensuring the team remains at the forefront of innovation.
• Business development support by providing expert input into proposal submissions and business development initiatives from a Data Engineering perspective.
• Champion engineering excellence by promoting best practices for high-quality engineering standards that reduce future technical debt.
• Evolve best practices by continuously refining the Data Engineering team's ways of working, driving alignment across the squad and wider teams.
• Strategic contributions by collaborating with the Data Engineering Director on strategic workstreams, contributing to the Data Engineering strategy and Go-to-Market (GTM) initiatives.

Qualifications

What you need to have?

Experience:

• Proven experience in leading technical teams and building applications using microservice architecture.
• Extensive experience with Python and FastAPI.
• Strong understanding of microservices principles and components such as logging, monitoring, health checks, scalability, resilience, service discovery, API gateways, and error handling.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with Pydantic and data validation in FastAPI.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Knowledge of API design and implementation.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, other).
• Knowledge of security best practices in microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with Retriever models, including implementation of chunking strategies.
• Knowledge and use of vector databases.
• Understanding of optimal approaches in querying LLM models via API.
• Prompt engineering knowledge, with familiarity in different strategies.
• Exposure to various prompt engineering techniques in different scenarios.

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Blend is at the forefront of simplifying the way people access financial services. Our innovative technology and strategic solutions are transforming the lending experience for both providers and consumers. As part of our continuous growth, we are seeking a talented Tableau Analyst to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in enhancing our credit portfolio management through insightful analytics and dashboard creation.

As a Tableau Analyst within our banking client’s Credit Portfolio team, you will play a crucial role in developing, maintaining, and improving our analytical dashboards and reports. Your work will directly contribute to strategic decisions and operational efficiencies by providing actionable insights on our credit portfolios. This position requires a blend of technical prowess in Tableau and SAS, along with a solid understanding of credit portfolio management.

The Details:

• Location: Remote within U.S. (Must be able to work according to Eastern Time) 
• Duration: 6 to 12-month contract with potential extension 
• Benefits: We do offer benefits to our full-time consultants, including Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Programs, and an incredibly supportive team cheering you on!

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop, and maintain Tableau dashboards and reports to support credit portfolio analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver custom analytics solutions.
• Analyze credit portfolio data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks.
• Utilize SAS for data manipulation, analysis, and predictive modeling related to credit portfolios.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity in all analytics solutions.
• Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

Qualifications

Required:

• 1-3 years of experience in a Tableau-centric role, with a focus on dashboard creation and data visualization.
• Proven experience in credit portfolio management or analysis.
• Proficiency in SAS for data analysis and modeling.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the financial services industry, particularly in lending or credit.
• Familiarity with SQL and other data analysis tools.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

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transforming how we become the marketing partner of choice with our clients which include financial institutions, fintech’s, merchants, and processors. The team continues to experience exceptional growth and to support this growth, has established the Marketing Services Delivery team to lead the implementation and execution of Marketing Services engagements on behalf of Clients.

The Senior Manager of Marketing Services Delivery will have a marketing operations strategy mindset, leading the implementation, management and ongoing evolution of processes and controls to support the seamless delivery of Client engagements. This individual will also lead the implementation and execution of Marketing Services engagements on behalf of Clients.

This role reports to the Director of marketing Services and will lead the efforts of one Marketing Analyst.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of workexperience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters/MBA/JD)
• 7+ years of experience in financial services or payments marketing includingissuers, fintechs, processors or merchants
• Successful operating in fast-paced, highly matrixed organizations
  
  Preferred Qualifications
• Authority in multiple marketing disciplines – e.g., brand, direct response, research,content, social, influencer, sponsorship, events, product
• Deep expertise in the areas of managing and executing sponsorship activations,events, and experiential marketing
• Understanding of market dynamics in the areas of consumer, small business,commercial, prepaid, debit, credit payment
• Accomplished at building trusted relationships with cross-functional team members, key stakeholders, business leaders and Clients
• Ability to structure, manage and coordinate complex projects across multiple internal/external stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence in highly matrixed organizations to drive decision making and move initiatives forward
• Work with limited direction, usually within a complex and ambiguous environment to drive fact-based marketing recommendations, solutions and decisions
• Leadership experience managing agency partners or providing marketing consulting services to lead creation of comprehensive, full funnel, multi-channel marketing programs
• Strong executive presence; excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience engaging with Executive and C-level suite audiences
• Expert on all Microsoft products including Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Tableau
  
  Essential Functions
• Build and nurture individual and team expertise across Marketing Services pillars – e.g., research& insights, marketing strategy, campaign development, campaign delivery & optimization and campaign measurement
• Serve as the subject matter expert in sponsorships, events, and experiential marketing for the Fintech Marketing Services team
• Identify and develop scalable delivery frameworks to improve speed to market, ensure work is delivered efficiently and executed flawlessly
• Provide marketing thought leadership and expert project management skills to develop and implement marketing programs on behalf of Clients – e.g., research& insights, marketing strategy, campaign development, campaign delivery & optimization and campaign measurement
• Establish a collaborative feedback loop with Marketing Services Business Development and other key delivery stakeholders, champion continuous improvement of Sales x Delivery operating model
• Prioritize and monitor the work of one (1) Marketing Analyst responsible for implementing marketing programs, ensuring they meet Client needs and execute within budget and on time
• Assist in developing processes to enhance working model with internal agency team to improve speed to market while ensuring creative output reflects the clients’ payments marketing expertise and aligns to Client program objectives
• Nurture, grow and deepen Client relationships; establish US Client Marketing as preferred marketing partner of choice among our clients
• Build and optimize Marketing Services Delivery reporting solutions designed to monitor and track team productivity and efficiency
• Manage the implementation and tracking of Client engagement audits; recommend process enhancements to improve future performance
• Evaluate post-engagement Client survey scores; collaborate with team to identify and implement enhancements to improve future performance
• Grow and development team talent; lead the efforts of one (1) Marketing Analyst

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The VP of Market Expansion is a new role dedicated to next-generation Tier 1 ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) prospecting. This role will focus on engaging with the next 10–20 Tier 1 ICPs with which Blend is not currently working with across all verticals. There will be no overlap with clients already pursued by the BD team. The work will provide higher visibility and velocity toward securing larger opportunities in the next set of Tier 1 customers, with a focus on identifying multi-million dollar deals that would not have been worked on while the team is working on the set of engaged accounts. h-value deals for global or boutique consulting firms, you will:

Key responsibilities include coordination with the SVP of Sales, Business Development and Growth as well as the GTM team on selecting the next 10-20 Tier1 targets. The VP of Emerging accounts will collaborate with the GTM team to identify key opportunities for these customers and translate into quantifiable pipeline. The VP will also work with Service Line leaders to craft offerings, securing engagement with stakeholders and decision-makers, ensuring new logo customer readiness (e.g., NDA/MSA completion), and establishing executive connections with the BD team or leadership as needed to drive the opportunity forward. Once the account is established and closer to deal closure, the role will pivot back to early stage leads and prospects to qualify new opportunities and keep the pipeline replenished. The objective, once fully refined and validated, is to identify, maintain and fast-track $10–20M in new active opportunities across all verticals. The VP will also support growth opportunities in Horizon 2 and support efforts to enter global conglomerates and accelerate key opportunities in the active verticals and West region. 

Key Functional Areas 

• Innovation Sales: Implementing new tools and methods to stay ahead of the competition. 
• Market Penetration: Identifying and exploiting opportunities to expand into new markets or verticals. 
• Deal Structuring: Skilled in crafting deals that meet Blend's growth, margin and the client's strategic needs. 
• Data and AI Expertise: Deep understanding of the products/services being sold and the competitive landscape. 
• Customer Success: Ensuring customers achieve value, which drives retention and expansion. 
• Sales Analytics: Using metrics and KPIs to assess performance, optimize processes, and guide decision-making. 
• CRM Proficiency: Leveraging tools like Salesforce or HubSpot to manage customer relationships and pipeline effectively. 

Qualifications

Required Personal Experience:

• Influencer: Innovative leader with the ability to identify opportunities and influence organizations. 
• Delivers Results: Ability to successfully sell enterprise level solutions, working through the many obstacles along the way. 
• Effective Communicator: Able to present to c-level executives and technology teams with excellent written and verbal communications. 
• Creative Thinker & Problem Solver: Ability to utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges. 
• Impact Assessment: Ability to determine the impact of proposed solutions on clients’ strategy and business outcomes 

Required Professional Experience:

• Have a deep industry, data, AI and enterprise technology solutions  
• Over 15 years of experience in selling and delivering projects/strategy/advisory, business intelligence & technology  
• Strategic thinking around developing solutions in the data science and AI space 
• Professional client experience in operating as a Trusted Advisor  
• Strong commercial instincts 
• Strong organization and execution skills 
• Passion around closing deals, people, and talent development 

Success Metrics:

• Overall ability to achieve targets in sales and growth 
• Growth of new logos as a percentage of total  
• Annual value of identified and closed deals in $ 
• Ability to sell solutions across different capabilities 
• Penetrate into new industry verticals 

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Job Description

The Acquisition Campaign Manager is a key part of a US Prepaid Wallet product launch team who in conjunction with the product leads and owners, will help develop and be responsible for the end-to-end execution of the product’s customer acquisition strategy. This role requires a combination of strategic mindset and desire to help launch and grow a new product, ability to understand and solve for the customer, data driven approach to decision making, and flawless coordination and organization.

The Details:

• Location: Denver, CO or Remote
• Duration: 6 months consulting role with potential extension
• Benefits:  We do offer benefits to our full-time consultants, including Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Pretax Commuter Benefits, and an incredibly supportive team cheering you on!

What you’ll do:

• In support of the product launch, drive acquisitions and early month on book engagement through customer focused and lifecycle targeted campaigns to meet defined product performance targets
• Assist with developing and managing the execution of the customer acquisition and engagement strategy for the US Prepaid Wallet product across various channels, including retail, email, website, app, affiliate partnerships, sponsored placements, and social media.
• Partner with Marketing and Communications teams to develop relevant materials for each channel focused on the awareness, acquisition, and early engagement stages of the customer lifecycle
• Work with channel management teams to coordinate, schedule, and deploy acquisition campaign materials
• Engage with other relevant internal and external stakeholders such as Product, Legal, Technology, advertising platforms to ensure strategies are implemented effectively
• Design and manage performance monitoring and testing to understand effectiveness of acquisition strategies, utilizing a data driven approach to inform iterative enhancements

Qualifications

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field.
• 5-8 years of customer acquisition strategy or product growth management experience in financial services with a specific cards or payments focus
• Understanding of multi-channel customer acquisition strategies across brick-and-mortar, online, and paid advertising channels
• Prior experience working with marketing and communications teams, to develop and execute relevant messaging and content to drive customer acquisition and engagement
• Excellent communication skills with ability to both assist with the creation and proof reading of client messaging
• Experience with A/B and incrementality testing design, execution, and monitoring
• Experience with Excel and PowerPoint

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• Working with practice leaders and clients to understand business problems, industry context, data sources, risks, and constraints.
• Solving challenges through diverse Data Science solutions and aligning stakeholders on strategies, deliverables, and roadmaps. 
• Developing project plans with milestones, dates, owners, and risk contingency, creating and maintaining efficient data pipelines within clients' architecture using SQL, Spark, and Cloud technologies.
• Assembling large, complex datasets that meet business requirements and constructing analytics tools to provide actionable insights for customer acquisition and operational efficiency.
• Performing data cleaning, QC, and integration on an Advanced Data Science Platform, summarizing data issues and conducting statistical analysis for decision-making.
• Training, validate, and cross-validate predictive models using cutting-edge techniques and documenting results for client deliverables.

Qualifications

• MS degree in Statistics, Math, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field. 
• 3+ years Professional experience in Advanced Data Science, such as predictive modeling, statistical analysis, machine learning, text mining, geospatial analytics, time series forecasting optimization. 
• Experience with one or more Advanced Data Science software languages (Python, R, SAS). 
• Proven ability to deploy machine learning models. 
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, query authoring and tuning. Working familiarity with various databases including Hadoop/Hive.
• Experience with Spark and data-frames in PySpark or Scala.
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to pivot complex data to answer business questions.
• Comfortable with cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google).
• Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and/or Optimizely are a plus.

What about languages? 

You will need excellent written and verbal English for clear and effective communication with the team. 

How much experience must I have? 

We're looking for someone with 3+ years' of experience in similar roles. 

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The VP of Market Expansion is a new role dedicated to next-generation Tier 1 ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) prospecting. This role will focus on engaging with the next 10–20 Tier 1 ICPs with which Blend is not currently working with across all verticals. There will be no overlap with clients already pursued by the BD team. The work will provide higher visibility and velocity toward securing larger opportunities in the next set of Tier 1 customers, with a focus on identifying multi-million dollar deals that would not have been worked on while the team is working on the set of engaged accounts. h-value deals for global or boutique consulting firms, you will:

Key responsibilities include coordination with the SVP of Sales, Business Development and Growth as well as the GTM team on selecting the next 10-20 Tier1 targets. The VP of Emerging accounts will collaborate with the GTM team to identify key opportunities for these customers and translate into quantifiable pipeline. The VP will also work with Service Line leaders to craft offerings, securing engagement with stakeholders and decision-makers, ensuring new logo customer readiness (e.g., NDA/MSA completion), and establishing executive connections with the BD team or leadership as needed to drive the opportunity forward. Once the account is established and closer to deal closure, the role will pivot back to early stage leads and prospects to qualify new opportunities and keep the pipeline replenished. The objective, once fully refined and validated, is to identify, maintain and fast-track $10–20M in new active opportunities across all verticals. The VP will also support growth opportunities in Horizon 2 and support efforts to enter global conglomerates and accelerate key opportunities in the active verticals and West region. 

Key Functional Areas 

• Innovation Sales: Implementing new tools and methods to stay ahead of the competition. 
• Market Penetration: Identifying and exploiting opportunities to expand into new markets or verticals. 
• Deal Structuring: Skilled in crafting deals that meet Blend's growth, margin and the client's strategic needs. 
• Data and AI Expertise: Deep understanding of the products/services being sold and the competitive landscape. 
• Customer Success: Ensuring customers achieve value, which drives retention and expansion. 
• Sales Analytics: Using metrics and KPIs to assess performance, optimize processes, and guide decision-making. 
• CRM Proficiency: Leveraging tools like Salesforce or HubSpot to manage customer relationships and pipeline effectively. 

Qualifications

Required Personal Experience:

• Influencer: Innovative leader with the ability to identify opportunities and influence organizations. 
• Delivers Results: Ability to successfully sell enterprise level solutions, working through the many obstacles along the way. 
• Effective Communicator: Able to present to c-level executives and technology teams with excellent written and verbal communications. 
• Creative Thinker & Problem Solver: Ability to utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges. 
• Impact Assessment: Ability to determine the impact of proposed solutions on clients’ strategy and business outcomes 

Required Professional Experience:

• Have a deep industry, data, AI and enterprise technology solutions  
• Over 15 years of experience in selling and delivering projects/strategy/advisory, business intelligence & technology  
• Strategic thinking around developing solutions in the data science and AI space 
• Professional client experience in operating as a Trusted Advisor  
• Strong commercial instincts 
• Strong organization and execution skills 
• Passion around closing deals, people, and talent development 

Success Metrics:

• Overall ability to achieve targets in sales and growth 
• Growth of new logos as a percentage of total  
• Annual value of identified and closed deals in $ 
• Ability to sell solutions across different capabilities 
• Penetrate into new industry verticals 

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The  VP of Strategic Partnerships will play a pivotal role in driving growth and business development by enhancing and expanding strategic partnerships with key industry players such as AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks. Reporting to the SVP of Global Growth this role is focused on accelerating business opportunities and fostering high-impact value based relationships. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Strategic Partner Growth: Develop and nurture high-value relationships with major partners and alliances. Negotiate strategic agreements and manage long-term partnerships to maximize business potential and drive revenue growth. 

• Collaborative Value Creation: Partner with Product Marketing, Account Managers, and Capability Practice leads to identify, articulate, and promote Blend’s value proposition. Tailor solutions to align with Partners' technology and drive mutual success. 

• Sales Enablement & Pipeline Development: Lead initiatives to increase Blend’s visibility and integration within Partners’ sales teams. Drive co-marketing efforts and create a robust pipeline of Blend services and Partner products through strategic sales activities and collaboration. 

• Operational Excellence: Oversee Partner Operations, including lead management, pipeline development, and revenue tracking. Ensure seamless integration and hygiene of partner-originated opportunities to optimize sales outcomes. 

• Thought Leadership & Representation: Represent Blend at industry events, conferences, and Partner forums. Contribute to thought leadership and enhance industry recognition through active participation and strategic messaging. 

• Performance Tracking: Monitor and report on key performance metrics related to partnership success, revenue generation, and customer adoption. Use insights to refine strategies and drive continuous improvement. 

Qualifications

• Experience & Expertise: 15 years of overall experience with 5+ years of experience in building and managing technology partnerships, focused on enterprise software and services. Proven track record of success with major platforms like Databricks, Microsoft, AWS, and Snowflake platforms is highly desirable. 

• High-Energy & Results-Oriented: Demonstrated ability to drive business growth with a high level of energy and a strong bias for action. Adept at scaling relationships and creating opportunities in complex organizational environments. 

• Technical Acumen: Experience working with technical consultants, solution architects, and data engineers to create client value through partnerships. Familiarity with Modern Data Stack concepts such as Composable CDP, Data Mesh, and reverse ETL is a plus. 

• Sales Savvy: Proven ability to navigate and close large-scale deals, manage long sales cycles, and creatively leverage partners to achieve deal closure. 

• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with partner executives, technical teams, and other stakeholders. 

• Independent & Agile: Capable of managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision. A willingness to travel as required to engage with partners and represent Blend at key events. 

If you're passionate about driving business development and building impactful partnerships within the technology industry, we encourage you to apply and contribute to Blend’s success. 

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• Lead project development from concept to delivery, ensuring alignment with the strategic direction set by the management team. 

• Engage in hands-on coding, problem-solving, and technical decision-making. 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other developers, to ensure smooth project execution and successful outcomes. 

• Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. 

• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to maintain high coding standards. 

• Contribute to system design and architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. 

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to drive innovation within the team. 

Qualifications

• Studies in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent. 

• Proven experience as a Senior Engineer or similar role with significant hands-on development responsibilities. 

• Expertise in modern programming languages (C#). 

• Experience with cloud platforms (such as AWS) and DevOps practices (Infrastructure as Code). 

• Strong understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL). 

• Excellent leadership, self-time management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members. 

• Experience in system design, architecture, and conceptual use cases. 

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 

What about languages? 

You will need excellent written and verbal English for clear and effective communication with the team. 

How much experience must I have? 

• In order to thrive in this position, you must have at least 5+ years of experience in similar roles.

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The  VP of Strategic Partnerships will play a pivotal role in driving growth and business development by enhancing and expanding strategic partnerships with key industry players such as AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks. Reporting to the SVP of Global Growth this role is focused on accelerating business opportunities and fostering high-impact value based relationships. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Strategic Partner Growth: Develop and nurture high-value relationships with major partners and alliances. Negotiate strategic agreements and manage long-term partnerships to maximize business potential and drive revenue growth. 

• Collaborative Value Creation: Partner with Product Marketing, Account Managers, and Capability Practice leads to identify, articulate, and promote Blend’s value proposition. Tailor solutions to align with Partners' technology and drive mutual success. 

• Sales Enablement & Pipeline Development: Lead initiatives to increase Blend’s visibility and integration within Partners’ sales teams. Drive co-marketing efforts and create a robust pipeline of Blend services and Partner products through strategic sales activities and collaboration. 

• Operational Excellence: Oversee Partner Operations, including lead management, pipeline development, and revenue tracking. Ensure seamless integration and hygiene of partner-originated opportunities to optimize sales outcomes. 

• Thought Leadership & Representation: Represent Blend at industry events, conferences, and Partner forums. Contribute to thought leadership and enhance industry recognition through active participation and strategic messaging. 

• Performance Tracking: Monitor and report on key performance metrics related to partnership success, revenue generation, and customer adoption. Use insights to refine strategies and drive continuous improvement. 

Qualifications

• Experience & Expertise: 5+ years of experience in building and managing technology partnerships, with a focus on enterprise software and services. Proven track record of success with major platforms like Databricks, Microsoft, AWS, and Snowflake platforms is highly desirable. 

• High-Energy & Results-Oriented: Demonstrated ability to drive business growth with a high level of energy and a strong bias for action. Adept at scaling relationships and creating opportunities in complex organizational environments. 

• Technical Acumen: Experience working with technical consultants, solution architects, and data engineers to create client value through partnerships. Familiarity with Modern Data Stack concepts such as Composable CDP, Data Mesh, and reverse ETL is a plus. 

• Sales Savvy: Proven ability to navigate and close large-scale deals, manage long sales cycles, and creatively leverage partners to achieve deal closure. 

• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with partner executives, technical teams, and other stakeholders. 

• Independent & Agile: Capable of managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision. A willingness to travel as required to engage with partners and represent Blend at key events. 

If you're passionate about driving business development and building impactful partnerships within the technology industry, we encourage you to apply and contribute to Blend’s success. 

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We are looking for a Lead Marketing Analyst to join our team as a contractor.  At Blend our Data Scientists work with business leaders to solve our clients’ business challenges. We work with clients in marketing, revenue management, customer service, inventory management and many other aspects of modern business. Our Data Scientists have the business acumen to apply Data Science to many different business models and situations. 

We expect the Data Scientists to be excellent communicators with the ability to describe complex concepts clearly and concisely. They should be able to work independently in gathering requirements, developing roadmaps, and delivering results.

• Understand client needs and customize existing business processes to meet client needs. 
• Promptly address client concerns and professionally manage requests.
• Understand Marketing Programs, Define/Document Campaign Requirement and Execution Plan
• Audience Management: Prospect/Owner Data Consolidation
• Campaign Performance and Analytics: Reporting & Insight
• Predictive Models Implementation
• Ingestion of FICO Score
• Assemble large, complex data sets from client and external sources that meet functional business requirements.
• Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics. 
• Conduct statistical data analysis, including exploratory data analysis, data mining, and document key insights and findings toward decision making
• Document predictive models/machine learning results that can be incorporated into client-deliverable documentation
• Assist client to deploy models and algorithms within their own architecture

Qualifications

• MS degree in Statistics, Math, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field
• 3+ years Professional experience in Data Science, such as predictive modeling, statistical analysis, machine learning, text mining, geospatial analytics, time series forecasting, optimization
• Experience leading a team
• Experience analyzing campaign performance
• Experience with one or more Advanced Data Science software languages (R, Python, Scala, SAS) 
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, query authoring and tuning as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases including Hadoop/Hive
• Experience with spark and data-frames in PySpark or Scala
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to pivot complex data to answer business questions. Proven ability to visualize data for influencing.
• Comfortable with cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Optimizely a plus

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• Lead strategic ad-hoc efforts to expand, optimize, and improve the customer experience for Add a Card offers
• The ideal candidate will be someone that can be given a desired outcome and will figure out what needs to happen to get there. They will map out an action plan, which will inevitably evolve as new information is gathered, and ultimately execute on it with limited additional direction
• Candidate should be determined, adaptable, and an excellent problem solver. Needs to be able to think strategically with a steady focus on the end goal, while also having a proven track record of delivering on cross-functional initiatives
• Candidate must be able to work on multiple efforts in parallel and be able to prioritize and reprioritize as efforts evolve
• These ad-hoc initiatives will span a variety of functions – including digital, data, and modelling – but the candidate will be working with SMEs in each area, so deep knowledge in these areas is less important than having a high level of curiosity, ability to ask the right questions, a thoroughness in following up, and an overall ability to drive change

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of related experience in the field of
  project management
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Experience working in the financial services industry preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with working along multiple layers of creative
  reviews and approvals
• Excellent communication skills, particularly as it pertains to tailoring
  one's message and style to best reach one's audience --- in both formal and
  informal settings and regardless of the audience (e.g. technical, creative,
  legal, internal and external auditors, senior managers and officers)
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize, prioritize and drive results with a
  strong sense of urgency.
• Demonstrates flexibility in approach to different types of business
  problems and a willingness to change course when necessary to avoid project
  setbacks.
• Outstanding relationship building and relationship management skills.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; able to create and establish structure and
  process across cross-functional teams when ambiguous situations and new
  business needs arise.

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We are looking for a Lead Marketing Analyst to join our team as a 6 month contractor.  At Blend our Data Scientists work with business leaders to solve our clients’ business challenges. We work with clients in marketing, revenue management, customer service, inventory management and many other aspects of modern business. Our Data Scientists have the business acumen to apply Data Science to many different business models and situations. 

We expect the Data Scientists to be excellent communicators with the ability to describe complex concepts clearly and concisely. They should be able to work independently in gathering requirements, developing roadmaps, and delivering results.

• Understand client needs and customize existing business processes to meet client needs. 
• Promptly address client concerns and professionally manage requests.
• Understand Marketing Programs, Define/Document Campaign Requirement and Execution Plan
• Audience Management: Prospect/Owner Data Consolidation
• Campaign Performance and Analytics: Reporting & Insight
• Predictive Models Implementation
• Ingestion of FICO Score
• Assemble large, complex data sets from client and external sources that meet functional business requirements.
• Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics. 
• Conduct statistical data analysis, including exploratory data analysis, data mining, and document key insights and findings toward decision making
• Document predictive models/machine learning results that can be incorporated into client-deliverable documentation
• Assist client to deploy models and algorithms within their own architecture

Qualifications

• MS degree in Statistics, Math, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field
• 3+ years Professional experience in Data Science, such as predictive modeling, statistical analysis, machine learning, text mining, geospatial analytics, time series forecasting, optimization
• Experience leading a team
• Experience analyzing campaign performance
• Experience with one or more Advanced Data Science software languages (R, Python, Scala, SAS) 
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, query authoring and tuning as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases including Hadoop/Hive
• Experience with spark and data-frames in PySpark or Scala
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to pivot complex data to answer business questions. Proven ability to visualize data for influencing.
• Comfortable with cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Optimizely a plus

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• Develop and implement user interface designs based on wireframes and prototypes, ensuring responsive layouts for optimal viewing experiences across devices. 

• Analyze and optimize front-end performance, addressing compatibility issues and improving load times to enhance user satisfaction. 

• Create and maintain reusable component libraries to promote consistency and efficiency in UI development. 

• Collaborate with back-end developers to integrate front-end applications with back-end APIs and AI models, ensuring smooth data flow and functionality. 

• Work closely with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions. 

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while following best practices, including version control and documentation. 

• Provide mentorship to junior developers, fostering a collaborative team environment and encouraging skill development. 

Qualifications

• Studies in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent. 

• Experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on UI design and implementation. 

• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and React. 

• Experience with responsive design techniques and frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap, Foundation). 

• Strong understanding of front-end performance optimization and cross-browser compatibility. 

• Familiarity with back-end integration, including RESTful APIs and AI model integration. 

• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development methodologies. 

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills. 

What about languages? 

You will need excellent written and verbal English for clear and effective communication with the team. 

How much experience must I have? 

• In order to thrive in this role, you must have at least 3+ years of experience as an UI Engineer. 

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We are looking for a Lead Marketing Analyst to join our team as a 6 month contractor.  At Blend our Data Scientists work with business leaders to solve our clients’ business challenges. We work with clients in marketing, revenue management, customer service, inventory management and many other aspects of modern business. Our Data Scientists have the business acumen to apply Data Science to many different business models and situations. 

We expect the Data Scientists to be excellent communicators with the ability to describe complex concepts clearly and concisely. They should be able to work independently in gathering requirements, developing roadmaps, and delivering results.

• Understand client needs and customize existing business processes to meet client needs. 
• Promptly address client concerns and professionally manage requests.
• Understand Marketing Programs, Define/Document Campaign Requirement and Execution Plan
• Audience Management: Prospect/Owner Data Consolidation
• Campaign Performance and Analytics: Reporting & Insight
• Predictive Models Implementation
• Ingestion of FICO Score
• Assemble large, complex data sets from client and external sources that meet functional business requirements.
• Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics. 
• Conduct statistical data analysis, including exploratory data analysis, data mining, and document key insights and findings toward decision making
• Document predictive models/machine learning results that can be incorporated into client-deliverable documentation
• Assist client to deploy models and algorithms within their own architecture

Qualifications

• MS degree in Statistics, Math, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field
• 3+ years Professional experience in Data Science, such as predictive modeling, statistical analysis, machine learning, text mining, geospatial analytics, time series forecasting, optimization
• Experience leading a team
• Experience analyzing campaign performance
• Experience with one or more Advanced Data Science software languages (R, Python, Scala, SAS) 
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, query authoring and tuning as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases including Hadoop/Hive
• Experience with spark and data-frames in PySpark or Scala
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to pivot complex data to answer business questions. Proven ability to visualize data for influencing.
• Comfortable with cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Optimizely a plus

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The Director of Business Intelligence Delivery is responsible for overseeing client-facing execution of one or more Blend360 projects. Since this requires strong client management skills, prior billable consulting experience will be required.  Oversee multiple cross-functional project teams of data analysts and engineers, collaborating closely with various client stakeholders and driving multiple enterprise analytics initiatives as our company continues to grow. Builds and champions the application of reporting, analysis tools, dashboards, and business knowledge to develop and implement replicable reports, datasets, and databases to achieve performance and financial metrics.  Breadth across BI technologies and depth in being able to work at a level of detail are both important to being successful in this role.  Work is fast-paced and the job may require some flexibility in hours to accommodate the needs of Blend360 clients. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support the development of Business Intelligence (“BI”) proposals, projects & initiatives by partnering with senior-level client partners within Blend360 and its clients
• Define BI solutions that fit client needs.  Apply BI best practices and work with team members to design technical solutions 
• Work as the BI tools subject matter expert and drive offerings development especially in the Microsoft Power Platform area 
• Manage the team working with business users and analysts to design and develop optimal business intelligence reporting and data analytics solutions 
• Collaborate with database architects, data scientists, and supporting developers in development and production support work  
• Mentor junior resources and take ownership of the team’s deliverables, including reporting, analytics, automation, and process improvement 
• Manage the team utilization, project budget, decide how to approach tasks, and develop a plan to accomplish them 
• Coordinate distributing information to team members and stakeholders and push the team for excellence, insight, and improvements 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in the Engineering, Science, Technology, or any closely related fields 
• Highly analytical, metrics-driven, with the ability to turn empirical data into insightful, strategic decisions and tactical team plans 
• Established track record driving business goals and offerings through data, business intelligence, and analytics 
• Has built, grown and led a BI delivery team in a prior senior role interfacing with clients 
• Proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities against capacity constraints 
• Excellent interpersonal skills required to deal effectively with a wide range of individuals and cultures, at all levels 
• Attention to detail and a passion for precision and accuracy 
• Strong analytical, organizational & time management skills 
• Utilizes creative strategies to analyze and produce effective documents 
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaborate with others 
• Some travel will be required.  May telecommute from any location in the United States or Canada; monthly travel to corporate office in Columbia, Maryland for 1-2 days may be required to meet in-person with the team and senior leadership 
• 12+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing in the following areas: 
• 7 years of hands-on experience working with any one or more of the following big data analytics platforms: Tableau Desktop, Tableau server, Tableau Data Prep, Power BI, Looker, ThoughtSpot, Qlik and Tableau CRM (Einstein Analytics) 
• Knowledge of and experience with MS Power Platform including Power Automate, Power Apps and Azure is highly desirable 
• 10 years of experience designing, developing, and enhancing Business Intelligence reporting and data analytics solutions including experience in Business Intelligence project planning, project scoping, and leading and mentoring BI analysts, report developers, and engineers. 
• 7 years BI project management experience in being able to deliver on multiple concurrent tasks, projects and priorities 
• 5 years of experience working with any one or more of the following data technologies: AWS S3, AWS Athena, Cloudera Hadoop, Denodo, Informatica Data Prep, Alteryx, DBT  
• 3 years of experience using any one or more cloud or on-premises databases such as Amazon AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Amazon S3, Athena, Microsoft SQL, Azure 

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What is this position about?  

As a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, your core duties will entail designing, developing, supporting, and maintaining business intelligence products for our clients.   

Qualifications

• Studies in Accounting, Finance, or Information Technology and Computer Science. 

• Proficient hands-on experience with Tableau (Looker and/or Google Analytics are nice to have as additional tools).  

• Solid SQL experience, demonstrating the ability to create and maintain tables and views, with an understanding of SQL best practices for query performance.  

• Familiarity with ETL tools.  

• Strong communication skills to effectively convey insights to across teams.  

• Ability to show initiative and work independently.  

• Leadership experience is highly valued.   

• Experience with Python is a plus.  

What about languages?  

Excellent written and verbal English for clear and effective communication is a must!  

How much experience must I have?  

We're looking for someone with 5+ years of experience working as Business Intelligence Analyst or related positions.   

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• Define product strategy using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research to inform roadmap and development priorities
• Partner with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and Legal & Compliance to design risk capabilities that drive exceptional customer experience
• Articulate product vision, features, and requirements to different audiences to gain buy-in across the organization
• Write user stories, acceptance criteria, and participate in the full software development lifecycle with engineers and designers
• Identify, document, and improve existing processes to maximize efficiency in constantly evolving environments
• Collaborate with other product managers and designers to ensure cohesiveness of the overall customer experience
• Research and remain current on the latest industry trends and recommend tools, services, and practices for improvement

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience
• Product Management
• Credit card experience
• Project Management/ Stakeholder management – Excellent communication skills
• Consumer Risk Experience – One of the following à Collections, Recoveries, Credit, Fraud, Issues Management, Controls Assessment
• Experience with Confluence, Jira, Smartsheet

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The Global Partnership Lead will play a pivotal role in driving growth and business development by enhancing and expanding strategic partnerships with key industry players such as AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks. Reporting to the SVP of Global Growth this role is focused on accelerating business opportunities and fostering high-impact value based relationships. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Strategic Partner Growth: Develop and nurture high-value relationships with major partners and alliances. Negotiate strategic agreements and manage long-term partnerships to maximize business potential and drive revenue growth. 

• Collaborative Value Creation: Partner with Product Marketing, Account Managers, and Capability Practice leads to identify, articulate, and promote Blend’s value proposition. Tailor solutions to align with Partners' technology and drive mutual success. 

• Sales Enablement & Pipeline Development: Lead initiatives to increase Blend’s visibility and integration within Partners’ sales teams. Drive co-marketing efforts and create a robust pipeline of Blend services and Partner products through strategic sales activities and collaboration. 

• Operational Excellence: Oversee Partner Operations, including lead management, pipeline development, and revenue tracking. Ensure seamless integration and hygiene of partner-originated opportunities to optimize sales outcomes. 

• Thought Leadership & Representation: Represent Blend at industry events, conferences, and Partner forums. Contribute to thought leadership and enhance industry recognition through active participation and strategic messaging. 

• Performance Tracking: Monitor and report on key performance metrics related to partnership success, revenue generation, and customer adoption. Use insights to refine strategies and drive continuous improvement. 

Qualifications

• Experience & Expertise: 5+ years of experience in building and managing technology partnerships, with a focus on enterprise software and services. Proven track record of success with major platforms like Databricks, Microsoft, AWS, and Snowflake platforms is highly desirable. 

• High-Energy & Results-Oriented: Demonstrated ability to drive business growth with a high level of energy and a strong bias for action. Adept at scaling relationships and creating opportunities in complex organizational environments. 

• Technical Acumen: Experience working with technical consultants, solution architects, and data engineers to create client value through partnerships. Familiarity with Modern Data Stack concepts such as Composable CDP, Data Mesh, and reverse ETL is a plus. 

• Sales Savvy: Proven ability to navigate and close large-scale deals, manage long sales cycles, and creatively leverage partners to achieve deal closure. 

• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with partner executives, technical teams, and other stakeholders. 

• Independent & Agile: Capable of managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision. A willingness to travel as required to engage with partners and represent Blend at key events. 

If you're passionate about driving business development and building impactful partnerships within the technology industry, we encourage you to apply and contribute to Blend’s success. 

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