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BEN MADDOX

Fairfield,CA

Summary

Committed to delivering actionable insight that solves a wide variety of business challenges. Proficient in building complex frameworks that enable logical decision making for growth to ultimately drive profitability within segments, channels, and products. Constructing a digestible narrative and always thinking about the 'So What?' to influence the strategic direction of the business. Ability to build and scale high functioning teams and ultimately embed data-driven decision making in organizations.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Marketing Science

Nextdoor
04.2021 - Current

Responsible for growth of consumer and business accounts across US and international markets through optimization of targeting across offline and online channels, and performance marketing and brand initiatives

Built out analytical capabilities of team through establishing more robust decision making principles, advancing rigor of experimentation, investing in new data sources and corresponding pipelines to integrate it and growing team of data scientists

Head of Growth Analytics

Funding Circle
05.2016 - 04.2021
  • Led the data science team responsible for marketing, product and people analytics
  • Coordinated with acquisition marketing, sales, collections, risk and the operations team to understand their challenges and help them deliver on commercial goals
  • Implemented sophisticated Direct Mail targeting and optimized channel growth
  • Enhanced data stack of the US business through data engineering roadmap and negotiated contracts with data providers
  • Scoped, delivered and reviewed A/B tests
  • Introduced Bayesian Testing
  • Responsible for product analytics and strategy changes
  • Reduced credit losses on the portfolio during the pandemic.

Risk Manager

Barclays
03.2012 - 04.2016
  • Supported delivery of initiatives to engage low-usage customers
  • Delivered solutions for year over year growth in marketing channels
  • Built end-to-end processes for stress tests
  • Managed team of 3 analysts.

Analyst

10.2009 - 03.2012
  • Worked across full credit lifecycle
  • Tested new ideas and simulated borrower behaviors
  • Led adhoc analyses assigned by Chief Risk Officer.

Education

Master of Science - Operational Research And Finance

University of Southampton
UK
09.2009

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University of Southampton
UK
06.2008

Skills

  • ANALYTICS: Defining success metrics for marketing programs, Credit Risk management, Time series forecasting, Statistical testing, Operations based optimization, Product Analytics and Optimization, Text-based Record matching
  • PREDICTIVE MODELING: Validation, Machine Learning, Data investment, Seasonality, Information bias, Data transformation, Sampling, Logging of future enhancements
  • TOOLS PostgreSQL, Databricks, Looker

Timeline

Head of Marketing Science

Nextdoor
04.2021 - Current

Head of Growth Analytics

Funding Circle
05.2016 - 04.2021

Risk Manager

Barclays
03.2012 - 04.2016

Analyst

10.2009 - 03.2012

Master of Science - Operational Research And Finance

University of Southampton

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University of Southampton
BEN MADDOX