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Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. With Clever’s layered security solutions, schools can protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure identity platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! company, has an office in San Francisco, CA, but you can visit us at clever.com anytime.

Clever is building out our AI strategy and needs a contract Product Marketing Manager to up-level our competitive intelligence program and stand up an external beta. This is an analyst/researcher role, not a campaign or launch position: the core of the job is structured interviewing, competitive research, and synthesis into a clear point of view that Product, Engineering, and Marketing leadership can act on. You’ll work in lock-step with Product and Engineering as they define external use cases for the platform, and your output becomes the foundation for Clever’s 2027 go-to-market in this space.

ENGAGEMENT DETAILS:

This is a temporary role best suited for someone who can manage their time independently while collaborating closely with established teams.

Contract Dates: ASAP start – January 15, 2027

Commitment: Part-time, 20 hrs/week

Location: Anywhere in the U.S. (remote)

Compensation: $85/hour

WHAT YOU’LL OWN:

• Competitive intelligence: Update and up-level our existing CI program – refresh the monitoring cadence, stand up a formal win-loss interview process, and produce a synthesized view of the agentic identity landscape. This builds on and connects to our existing Schools-side CI on ClassLink and Identity Automation.
• Beta program: Recruit and manage external beta customers/design partners for the AI product development work – owning timeline, participant engagement, and structured feedback capture end to end.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Proven experience running competitive intelligence programs and/or win-loss research in a B2B software company – ability to go from raw signal to a defensible, actionable point of view.
• Experience recruiting and managing external beta/design-partner programs, including structured customer interviewing.
• Comfortable interfacing directly with Product and Engineering leadership and prospective enterprise customers without heavy oversight – this is a senior, largely self-directed contract role.
• Strong synthesis and writing skills: able to turn interviews and research into a clear, usable point of view, not just raw notes.
• EdTech, identity/auth, or AI infrastructure background is a plus, but not required.
• Available for a focused, part-time engagement with a hard deliverable date.
• Commitment to inclusion and belonging: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone to bring their authentic selves into the workplace.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:

• By the end of the contract, Clever has: a refreshed, running competitive intelligence program with a defined cadence; a completed beta program with documented customer learnings; and a synthesized point of view on the agentic identity market – all handed off in a format the incoming PMM lead can pick up directly, with no ramp-up time. The final week of the contract is reserved specifically for documentation and a handoff briefing.

Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.

Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. With Clever’s layered security solutions, schools can protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure identity platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! company, has an office in San Francisco, CA, but you can visit us at clever.com anytime.

Clever is building out our AI strategy and needs a contract Product Marketing Manager to up-level our competitive intelligence program and stand up an external beta. This is an analyst/researcher role, not a campaign or launch position: the core of the job is structured interviewing, competitive research, and synthesis into a clear point of view that Product, Engineering, and Marketing leadership can act on. You’ll work in lock-step with Product and Engineering as they define external use cases for the platform, and your output becomes the foundation for Clever’s 2027 go-to-market in this space.

ENGAGEMENT DETAILS:

This is a temporary role best suited for someone who can manage their time independently while collaborating closely with established teams.

Contract Dates: ASAP start – January 15, 2027

Commitment: Part-time, 20 hrs/week

Location: Anywhere in the U.S. (remote)

Compensation: $85/hour

WHAT YOU’LL OWN:

• Competitive intelligence: Update and up-level our existing CI program – refresh the monitoring cadence, stand up a formal win-loss interview process, and produce a synthesized view of the agentic identity landscape. This builds on and connects to our existing Schools-side CI on ClassLink and Identity Automation.
• Beta program: Recruit and manage external beta customers/design partners for the AI product development work – owning timeline, participant engagement, and structured feedback capture end to end.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Proven experience running competitive intelligence programs and/or win-loss research in a B2B software company – ability to go from raw signal to a defensible, actionable point of view.
• Experience recruiting and managing external beta/design-partner programs, including structured customer interviewing.
• Comfortable interfacing directly with Product and Engineering leadership and prospective enterprise customers without heavy oversight – this is a senior, largely self-directed contract role.
• Strong synthesis and writing skills: able to turn interviews and research into a clear, usable point of view, not just raw notes.
• EdTech, identity/auth, or AI infrastructure background is a plus, but not required.
• Available for a focused, part-time engagement with a hard deliverable date.
• Commitment to inclusion and belonging: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone to bring their authentic selves into the workplace.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:

• By the end of the contract, Clever has: a refreshed, running competitive intelligence program with a defined cadence; a completed beta program with documented customer learnings; and a synthesized point of view on the agentic identity market – all handed off in a format the incoming PMM lead can pick up directly, with no ramp-up time. The final week of the contract is reserved specifically for documentation and a handoff briefing.

Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow...

Headquarters: United States | Remote

About Upstart

At Upstart, we’re united by a mission that matters: to radically reduce the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. Every day, we bring creativity, experimentation, and advanced AI to reshape access to credit, helping millions move forward financially with clarity and confidence.

As the leading AI lending marketplace, we partner with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit through technology that’s both radically intelligent and deeply human. Our platform runs over one million predictions per borrower using more than 3,000 signals, powering smarter, fairer decisions for millions of customers. But the numbers only hint at the impact. Every idea, every voice, and every contribution moves us closer to a world where credit never stands between people and their financial progress.

We’re proudly digital-first, giving most Upstarters the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they thrive, alongside teammates across 80+ cities in the US and Canada. Digital-first doesn’t mean distant. We’re intentional about in-person connection through team onsites, planning sessions, and moments that spark creativity and trust. And whether you choose to work primarily from home or collaborate in-person from one of our offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, or New York City (opening Summer 2026), you’ll have the support to work in the way that works best for you.

If you’re energized by tackling meaningful problems, excited to innovate with purpose, and motivated by work that truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.

The Team: 

Upstart’s Machine Learning Growth team develops models that help optimize borrower acquisition across marketing channels. The Direct Mail team focuses on causal machine learning models that predict incremental conversion and help prioritize prospects, and its scope is expanding beyond Personal Loans into Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC), email marketing, digital, and other marketing use cases.

The Role:

As an Applied Scientist at Upstart, you will improve existing models and develop new approaches that expand the team’s impact across marketing channels. You will work across business-oriented analysis, machine learning research, experimentation, and production-ready modeling, partnering primarily within Machine Learning and with Growth and Marketing Platform Engineering stakeholders.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Analyze historical model and campaign performance to identify opportunities to improve model effectiveness and marketing outcomes.
• Develop and evaluate machine learning models, including researching new features and model architectures, to improve prospect selection and support new marketing use cases.
• Design statistically rigorous experiments and model evaluations to measure causal impact, optimize campaign outcomes, and inform decisions.
• Navigate complex, messy datasets and build reusable data pipelines, metrics, and analytical approaches that enable efficient model development and analysis.
• Partner with Machine Learning, Growth, and Marketing Platform Engineering teams to translate business problems into research agendas, intermediate milestones, and production-ready solutions.
• Expand machine learning capabilities beyond direct mail into lifecycle, email, digital, and other emerging marketing channels.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or a related field
• Experience applying statistical and machine learning methods to modeling or data science problems.
• Experience using Python for data analysis, data preparation, and machine learning model development.
• Experience with causal inference and experimental design, including statistically rigorous evaluation of model or experiment performance

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or a related field (or its equivalent)
• Knowledge of causal machine learning methods and modeling approaches.
• Ability to translate broadly scoped business problems into structured research questions, analyses, and modeling approaches.
• Experience working across exploratory data analysis, machine learning research, experimentation, and production model development and scaling.
• Ability to interpret complex experimental or modeling results and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Experience applying machine learning to marketing, customer acquisition, lifecycle, or other growth use cases.

Travel requirements As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S or Canada (outside of Quebec) but are expected to spend high quality time in-person collaborating via regular onsites and in-person meetings. The onsite cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.

At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package.  The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).

United States | Remote - Anticipated Base Salary Range$141,500—$196,000 USD

At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package.  The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).

Canada | Remote - Anticipated Base Salary Range$130,900—$160,000 CAD

What you'll love

At Upstart, our benefits are designed to support your health, financial well-being, family, and personal growth. Here’s what you can expect:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly 
• Retirement benefits to help you plan for the future, including a 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually (USD in the US, CAD in Canada)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees (US only)
• Comprehensive health coverage designed to support you and your family, including medical, dental, vision, and wellness resources for US and supplemental health coverage for Canada.
• Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart for eligible plans (US only)
• Income protection benefits, including life insurance and disability coverage for added financial security
• Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays, in line with local requirements
• Paid family and parental leave to support caregiving and major life moments (duration varies by country)
• Family-centered benefits to support fertility, parenthood, and caregiving needs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health support and life-centered resources
• Financial wellness resources, including access to financial planning tools and a financial concierge service (US Only)
• Annual wellness allowance to support your physical and emotional well-being and personal development, based on what matters most to you
• Annual productivity allowance to invest in relevant tools and resources you need to do your best work, no matter where you work from
• Connection and community through team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups (ERGs)
• Onsite perks, including catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens when working from one of our offices in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City (opening Summer 2026!)

For roles based in Canada, please note that we are not currently able to hire in Quebec.

Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Just as we are dedicated to improving access to affordable credit for all, we are committed to inclusive and fair hiring practices.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email candidate_accommodations@upstart.com

https://www.upstart.com/candidate_privacy_policy

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/upstart-applied-scientist