At LendingPoint, we believe that everyone deserves to feel the power of possibilities. As an online fintech company, we’ve created advanced consumer, small business, and merchant point-of-sale lending solutions to unlock access to affordable loans and empower those working to build their financial potential. By creating technology that sees your potential, we’re driving a better lending and borrowing experience by finding more reasons to say “yes.” More than just a job, LendingPoint is an exciting career choice where you’ll bring your expertise and experience to a talented team focused on fostering positive new customer experiences that inspire loyalty. Are we speaking about you? Then keep reading. What You’ll Do Day to Day: Responsible for developing insights and recommendations in a collaborative environment to provide strategic foresight based on competitive intelligence and market trends. Effectively provides industry experience to ensure the business is equipped with best-in-class products and an industry leading customer experience to prepare the organization for the next phase of growth. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: • Develop a series of comprehensive research reports synthesizing actionable insights from a variety of primary and secondary research sources. • Articulate LendingPoint’s competitive product and marketing position against peers. • Partner with a wide array of subject matter experts from within the business to create results that impact LendingPoint’s long-term product, marketing, and customer experience strategies. • Develop a library of analytic resources readily accessible to internal teams. • Manage vendor partnerships throughout various projects. • Maximize the value of research subscriptions by regularly pushing studies to the team, analyzing usage, and finding ways to leverage and contribute to our growth. • Produce reports that visualize consumer research and market data alongside compelling narratives culminating in business recommendations supported by due diligence and strong data. • Evaluate the needs of the business to ensure that the competitive insights functional area keeps pace. • Mentor, train and manage the tasks of additional researchers as needed. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Data Analytics or similar, preferred. • 5+ years of experience in research using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. • 2+ years on an insights team for marketing, product, or UX design. • 2+ years’ experience in analysis using Excel or Google Sheets, Tableau, QResearch or SPSS. • 3+ years’ experience building presentations and reports in PowerPoint. • Proven ability to manage people and effectively address workflow & task management. • Demonstrated understanding of the Consumer Finance industry. • Proven experience in researching or launching innovations to existing or new products. • Proven track record in driving results in a fast paced, dynamic, start- up environment.