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Leads and grows the engineering organization, sets technical strategy and roadmap, oversees execution across multiple teams, and provides technical direction on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and quality. Partners with Product, Design, Operations, Risk, and the CTO to deliver customer-focused financial products. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, improving processes, removing organizational bottlenecks, and balancing product delivery with long-term platform and infrastructure investments.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build and deploy ML models for risk and fraud detection, leading technical efforts and collaborating cross-functionally.

Lead product design and UX strategy for growth initiatives (signup, onboarding, rewards, gamification) across mobile (iOS/Android) and web. Drive projects end-to-end, collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, mentor other designers, improve processes, and contribute to the Step Design System. Must ship consumer-facing products, communicate design decisions clearly, and maintain high visual and interaction quality. Portfolio required.

The Social Content Lead is responsible for producing and optimizing engaging video content for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, acting as the brand's face while leveraging trends and analytics to grow social presence.

Own SEO and AI-search strategy for step.com and the Money 101 blog: run daily content production (writing and managing freelancers/AI), technical SEO, AEO/GEO optimization, backlink/digital PR, YouTube/video SEO, E-E-A-T and compliance, and organic performance reporting to grow traffic and AI citations.

Own and operate Step's marketing technology stack: manage vendors and ad/channel integrations, build data pipelines and models for measurement and audiences, implement attribution and GA4, enable self‑serve analytics, and deliver lifecycle programs like rewards and offers while bridging Marketing, Product, and Engineering.

Lead product and lifecycle marketing for Step's consumer finance products, owning go-to-market strategy, launches, cross-functional partnerships, and full-funnel lifecycle campaigns. Build and mentor a product marketing team, drive loyalty/gamification programs, leverage research to inform product roadmaps, and partner with product, design, engineering, and Beast Industries to scale acquisition, engagement, and retention.

Own and scale Step's affiliate and partner marketing program end-to-end: manage affiliate networks (Impact), recruit and onboard partners and creators, negotiate deals and contracts, run invoicing and budget reconciliation, build tracking and attribution (postbacks, pixels, MMPs), lead creative and compliance reviews, develop direct partnerships and emerging-channel distribution, and report program performance with recommendations.

Lead Step's integrated financial model, forecasting, and dashboards. Partner with cross-functional teams and the CFO to drive financial planning, unit-economics, pricing, and investment decisions. Build AI-augmented forecasts, deliver executive-ready analyses, and own monthly reviews, annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning.

The Senior Web Software Engineer will build and maintain web components, own features from inception to production, implement designs, partner with teams, and impact product evolution.