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Credit Strategy & Decisioning Manager

GoodLeap - San Francisco, CA, United States - In-office - posted 2026-10-21

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GoodLeap is a fintech platform providing financing and software solutions for sustainable home improvements, including solar, batteries, HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, and windows. The company has facilitated over $30 billion in financing since 2018 and serves over 1 million homeowners and thousands of professionals. The Credit Strategy & Decisioning Manager will own the execution and delivery of GoodLeap's underwriting policy and procedures. This is a hands-on management role that bridges credit strategy, technology, and business operations. Key responsibilities include: - Translating credit and underwriting policies into the decision platform, maintaining complete documentation of decisioning flows across API sources, including tracking overrides, exceptions, and fallback logic - Monitoring policy performance against intent through dashboards tracking approval rates, pull-through rates, override rates, and policy drift; conducting periodic gap assessments to surface undocumented decisioning nuances - Briefing senior leaders across Capital Markets, Credit Risk, Product, and Engineering on execution status, risks, and open decisions, tailoring messaging for different audiences - Maintaining full version history and audit trails of policy changes to support back-testing and regulatory review; owning change-approval workflows for launching or rolling back strategy changes - Designing, delivering, and validating A/B, champion/challenger, and shadow tests on policy changes ahead of production releases; evaluating emerging credit and fraud vendor solutions and supporting pilot integrations - Prioritizing and sequencing configuration change requests against engineering and product capacity, exercising independent judgment on trade-offs with minimal day-to-day direction The role requires exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to balance execution speed with compliance and audit-readiness. You will work collaboratively across multiple stakeholder groups and thrive in a dynamic, fast-moving environment. Requirements: - Deep understanding of credit and underwriting policy and how configuration choices translate into borrower outcomes and portfolio risk - Working knowledge of loan decisioning engines, including how policy rules interact with third-party data sources - Experience with SQL, Python, Databricks, Tableau, and AI tools (Claude/ChatGPT) - Skilled at building and maintaining monitoring dashboards and translating performance data into actionable insights - Strong program and project management skills; ability to prioritize and sequence competing requests - Ability to design and interpret A/B tests, champion/challenger frameworks, and experimentation methods - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate complex trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences - High integrity, sound judgment, and comfort escalating blind spots to leadership - Strong organizational skills and comfort owning documentation, version history, and audit trails - Collaborative approach and ability to engage effectively across Capital Markets, Treasury, Product, Engineering, and Credit Risk teams

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