VP, Business Data Delivery

Current Employees of Happen Bank:
Please apply via your internal Workday Account Happen Bank (formerly Lending Club) is built around a simple purpose: to clear the way to help people turn intention into action, and action into financial progress. That means offering focused products, a frictionless mobile-first experience, and clear terms with no gotchas. Respect and fairness is part of our DNA, and that ideal shapes how we work, how we treat each other, and how we invest in our employees and our community.

Join us in using data, bold thinking, and a commitment to innovation to help clear the way for millions of Americans to achieve more.

About the Role The VP, Business Data Delivery is responsible for delivering trusted, business-ready data products that power decision-making across Happen Bank —from Marketing, Personal Loans, Deposits, Credit Risk, Fraud, Operations, and Compliance.

This leader owns the data engineering, analytics engineering, data product management, and customer data delivery capabilities that translate business priorities into measurable outcomes. Partnering closely with business leaders and the VP, Data Platforms, this role defines how customer, product, and operational data is transformed into actionable insights, analytics, AI-enabled experiences, and decisioning capabilities.

Driven by Happen Bank’s mission of improving the financial health of everyday Americans, the VP will build a data-driven culture, shape the company’s customer data strategy, and lead the teams responsible for turning data into measurable business value.

What You'll Do Business Data Strategy & Product Delivery Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for business-facing data products that support Marketing, Lending, Credit Risk, Fraud, Operations, Deposits, and Compliance Lead the delivery organization across Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Product Management, and Data Science Partner with business leaders to translate strategic priorities into scalable data products and measurable outcomes

Establish operating models that ensure data investments align with business value, adoption, and business outcomes

Lead the Data Product Management practice, including intake management, prioritization frameworks, delivery governance, and the operating model between business stakeholders and delivery teams

Customer Data & Activation Own the end-to-end customer data product strategy, including customer, product, and behavioral data integration

Deliver trusted customer data capabilities that power marketing activation, personalization, credit and fraud decisioning, collections strategy, and operational intelligence

Lead Customer Data Platform (CDP) initiatives, identity resolution capabilities, and downstream activation across business functions

Partner with business teams to evolve the customer data strategy and ensure a unified customer view across the enterprise

Analytics, AI & Business Insights Define the strategy for business-facing analytics, AI enablement, and self-service data products

Lead analytics initiatives that directly support business outcomes and prepare data products for AI and machine learning use cases

Drive adoption of AI-assisted data discovery, automated insight generation, and GenAI-powered self-service capabilities

Enable advanced analytics and machine learning through high-quality, business-ready data products that accelerate decision-making

Data Quality, Governance & Delivery Excellence Establish standards for data quality, certification, testing, QA, and governance throughout the data product lifecycle

Ensure business confidence in data products through robust validation, monitoring, and delivery processes

Partner closely with the VP, Data Platforms to align delivery capabilities with platform strategy, architecture, and engineering standards

Promote strong data practices and ensure data requirements are incorporated early in product and business planning processes

Leadership & Business Partnership Build a data-driven culture by embedding data product management and analytics capabilities close to the business and holding teams accountable for outcomes, not output

Lead and develop…