Manager of Data Science, Finance & Strategy

As Manager of Data Science for Finance & Strategy at Robinhood, you lead and develop a high-performing team of data scientists and analytics engineers. You set the team's technical direction and priorities while partnering with leaders across Robinhood to turn complex business questions into actionable insights. Your role combines strong people leadership, technical depth, and business judgment to identify high-impact opportunities and elevate the quality and scalability of analytics across the company.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of data scientists and analytics engineers, operating as a player-coach who stays hands-on in code and ships real work alongside the team
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, strong business judgment, experimentation, and clear accountability across the team
• Lead Robinhood's NPS program end to end: survey design, sampling and weighting, key driver analysis, verbatim analysis, and executive reporting
• Oversee the broader survey and research portfolio, including safety perception, brand and product sentiment, benchmarking, and trend tracking
• Make agentic workflows the default operating model by building durable shared infrastructure so the team can delegate analysis, pipelines, QA, and recurring reporting to agents
• Drive both sides of the analytics stack: rigorous data science (measurement, experimentation, modeling) and the analytics engineering foundation (pipelines, tooling, data models)
• Partner closely with Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to translate complex business questions into scalable, trustworthy analytics
• Represent Finance & Strategy Data Science in leadership forums and help shape how Robinhood leverages data and AI for strategic decision-making

What you bring

• 7+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or related fields, including 2+ years of people management experience
• Strong technical expertise in SQL, Python, statistical analysis, experimentation, and advanced analytics
• Proven ability to translate complex business questions into rigorous analyses, actionable insights, and scalable data solutions
• Experience developing measurement frameworks, predictive models, benchmarking, and other analytical approaches that inform business and strategic decisions
• Strong business judgment with a track record of partnering with Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, and senior leadership
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex analyses, influence decisions, and build alignment across teams
• Experience building and developing high-performing teams of data scientists and analytics engineers

What we offer

• Base pay range (varies by location): Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC) $202,000-$238,000 USD; Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL) $178,000-$209,000 USD; Zone 3 (Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL) $158,000-$214,000 USD
• Bonus opportunities and equity
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Annual lifestyle wallet for personal wellness, learning and development, and more
• Lifetime maximum benefit for family forming and fertility benefits
• Dedicated mental health support for employees and eligible dependents
• Generous time away including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, and parental leave
• Lively office environment with catered meals, fully stocked kitchens, and geo-specific commuter benefits

Location: This role is based in the Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected 5 days per week.

About Robinhood

Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all. The company builds products and infrastructure to serve the next generation of investors and savers as an estimated $124 trillion in assets transfers to younger generations over the next two decades.