Overview Join to apply for the Data Architect, MarTech role at LendingClub About The Role At LendingClub, our mission is to empower individuals on their journey to better financial health. As part of this mission, the Big Data and Analytics Platform team is building the foundation for a data-driven marketing ecosystem. We are seeking a Marketing Data & Analytics Architect to lead the design and development of scalable, compliant, and high-impact marketing data infrastructure and analytics capabilities. You will enable business teams to derive value from data for all marketing use cases and leverage modern analytics and data architecture for marketing at LendingClub, supporting our vision of being a data-driven company.

What You'll Do Define and evolve the MarTech reference architecture to support campaign execution, personalization, performance measurement, experimentation, and advanced analytics

Architect data pipelines and analytics capabilities that enable full-funnel marketing measurement, including acquisition, retention, conversion, and ROI tracking

Collaborate with marketing analytics and data science teams to develop predictive models and machine learning solutions that optimize Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI)

Design instrumentation and data flows to capture KPIs such as marketing attribution, channel effectiveness, and campaign ROI

Embed data governance, privacy compliance, scale, quality, and monitoring into the marketing data architecture to ensure secure and auditable data practices

Build and maintain marketing data warehouses, marts, and self-service analytics tools that serve as a single source of truth for business stakeholders

Standardize enterprise-wide marketing taxonomy and unify spend ingestion across agencies and platforms with finance-grade reconciliation

Partner with Marketing, Risk, Legal, Security, and Compliance teams to align marketing data architecture with business goals, their needs, and regulatory requirements

Architect infrastructure to support audience segmentation, A/B testing, recommendation engines, and real-time personalization

Ensure scalability, data quality, rapid time-to-market, and cost-efficiency across marketing data systems

Evaluate emerging technologies, including GenAI and marketing automation platforms, data and analytics ecosystem, to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage

Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the marketing tech stack to guide strategic decisions on build vs. buy

Lead the design of marketing data flow architecture and data modelling to enable analytics by channels, networks, segments, products, campaigns, cohorts, and eligibility to meet or exceed our performance goals

Hold yourself accountable for LendingClub’s origination targets

Ensure that the modern data and analytics stack enable ad-hoc analysis, observability, reports, feeds, and dashboards for marketing

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements to achieve automation, optimization, reduction of cost and improvement in time to delivery of marketing data products

About You 12+ years of professional experience, including 8+ years of deep expertise in big data, analytics technologies, and modern marketing data stacks

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent work experience

Proven experience architecting and delivering complex data platforms that power marketing analytics, personalization, and funnel optimization

Strong background in OLTP and OLAP systems at scale, with hands-on experience in Spark (7+ years), Databricks, and/or Snowflake

Skilled in building and supporting MarTech ecosystems, including CDPs, audience activation, and attribution-ready data

Experience applying machine learning to marketing or customer data use cases

Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and modern data pipelines (Hive, Kafka a plus)

Comfortable in Agile environments with CI/CD, source control, and automated testing best practices

Passionate about big data, cloud, and enabling data-driven marketing strategies

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Engineering, and Data), providing strong technical leadership and fostering innovation, collaboration, and accountability

Curiosity, empathy, and a passion for data—delivering simple, elegant solutions that make a measurable impact

Work Location San Francisco

The above locations are eligible offices for this role. The locations have been determined to foster in-person collaboration with this role’s team or the related business lines. We utilize a hybrid work model, and our teams are in-office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. In-person attendance is essential for this role’s success, and remote placement will not be considered. LendingClub offers relocation, based on actual job level.

Time Zone Requirements Primarily PT. While the position will primarily work local hours, LendingClub is headquartered in Pacific Time and our ideal candidate will be flexible working across time zones when necessary.

Travel Requirements As needed travel to LendingClub offices and/or other locations, as needed.

Compensation The target base salary range for this position is 210,000-247,000. The base salary of the role will be determined by job-related knowledge, experience, education, skills, and location. Base salary is just one part of LendingClub’s Total Rewards package. You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance, employee performance and eligible earnings).

We’re creating new financial services solutions for our members based on fairness, simplicity, and heart, and we treat our employees the same way. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their families, 401(k) match, health and wellness programs, flexible time off policies for salaried employees, up to 16 weeks

Equal Opportunity LendingClub is an equal opportunity employer and dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We believe that a variety of perspectives will make our teams and business stronger as we work together to transform the traditional banking system.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at interviewaccommodations@lendingclub.com.

Details Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

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