Head of Financial Services, Ratings & Data (Remote)

Overview

The organization is seeking a Senior Personal Finance expert to lead how it defines, collects, and assesses data within its Financial Services verticals. This role will own the strategic vision for Financial Services methodologies and data products, including credit cards, banking, loans, investing, debt relief, taxes, and related personal finance topics.

This is a hands-on strategy and leadership position combining subject-matter expertise with architectural ownership of how financial services rankings and data products work and evolve.

Responsibilities

• Own Financial Services rating strategy across a range of financial services, including banking, credit cards, loans, investing, taxes, debt, and other related personal finance topics.
• Define clear, defensible evaluation frameworks that reflect user needs, market realities, and update cadence.
• Shape proprietary financial services metrics and structured datasets for rankings, editorial use, and potential data products.
• Define research and data collection requirements; partner with testing, data, and research teams to ensure evidence quality.
• Establish quality standards for financial services ratings systems and scoring models.
• Serve as the internal SME for financial services market dynamics, ratings systems design, and data quality.
• Partner with editorial, SEO, product, testing, and data teams to translate ratings into credible rankings and scalable data products.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in financial products, services, fintech, operations, consulting, analytics, product management, or a related field.
• Deep understanding of how readers evaluate, buy, and use financial products or services.
• Experience building or overseeing analytical frameworks, rating systems, benchmarking programs, structured evaluations, or data products.
• Strong ability to translate complex financial concepts into clear guidance for non-experts.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and guide work across editorial, product, commercial, analytics, research, or testing teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a review site, marketplace, ratings organization, fintech, financial services company, or financial data provider.
• Familiarity with model governance, validation, QA, or audit processes for scoring/rating systems.
• Experience using testing, surveys, secret shopping, customer research, or market research in methodology or decision-making frameworks.
• Exposure to proprietary datasets, scoring engines, commercial data products, or large-scale comparative product evaluations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants.

Location

• Remote