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Happy holidays from Team Slope! ⚡

Excited to partner with Marqeta to introduce the Slope Card!

New role alert 🚨 - Data Scientist (Growth) Looking for an early to mid-level data scientist that is interested in working closely with our leadership and GTM organization to help with product / business analytics and technical list construction. Requirements in SQL, panda data frames, scripting / web scraping, Pivot table, data visualizations, and generally someone that loves hacking! https://lnkd.in/eUBqrapM Pictured - team at Soulcycle! 💪

HackWeek at Slope continues to push the boundaries of innovation in B2B payments! A huge thank you to our incredible judges: Max Altman — Co-founder, Managing Partner, Saga Ventures Ben Braverman — Co-founder, Managing Partner, Saga Ventures | prev. Chief Revenue Officer, Flexport Thomson Nguyen — Co-founder, Managing Partner, Saga Ventures | prev. CEO & founder of Nearside, Head of DS at Square CapitalCongratulations to our winners: Grand Prize - "Credit OS": Gabriel P Samson, Himanshu Mehta, Sam Eaton, Alex Wu 2nd place - "Self-Service Merchant Onboarding": Alvin Sng 3rd place - "Pay with Slope": Victor Klochikhin, Alice Lin, Grace Robillard, Nicholas Heins Most Ambitious - "Dors, AI Credit Analyst": Russell Gu, Bryant Chen, Damian Ancukiewicz, Andrew Albano We’re inspired by the creativity and collaboration that went into these projects and can’t wait to see them drive meaningful impact in the B2B space. Here’s to continuing to build the future of payments together!

Happy thanksgiving from the Slope team! Thankful for our amazing team, customers, partners, and supporters. 🦃

Excited to have our team member and Head of Capital Markets, Nicholas Heins, accept the Working Capital Startup of the Year award at the 2024 Working Capital Awards hosted by The Working Capital Forum. We're honored to be acknowledged as one of the most innovative businesses helping to optimize working capital needs for business customers. 

Nelson Auner, joining as Staff Data Scientist, is a former founder and seasoned leader in the risk and data science space. He joined Affirm in its early days, where he built analytics and risk systems as the company scaled to underwrite millions of U.S. consumers. After Affirm's Series F, Nelson joined the initial team at Coalition, Inc., where he led the data science and risk engineering teams through hypergrowth. Nelson has consulted for various startups, as well as Fortune 100 banks and insurance companies. He holds an MS in Statistics and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. We're Auner-ed to work with him!

Grace Robillard is joining us as Customer Success Operations! She was a Senior Analyst in Growth Marketing at American Express and studied Economics at Cornell University. She also played lacrosse throughout youth and was recruited to Hobart and William Smith Colleges. We’re excited about her product and growth marketing experience as activation is a major part of CX – she will help us offer the most Grace-ful customer experience!

Ethan McCoach is joining us as Account Executive! He was previously an AE at Link Money, and an AE at LA Clippers. He started his sales career selling door-to-door at Hawx Pest Control. His references highlighted his grit, work ethic, and creativity selling pest control to all types of households. Even in the hottest days of Texas, he was the first to start selling and last to stop. Ethan studied at University of California, Berkeley where he helped bring home a PAC 12 championship and was on Australia’s National rowing team. Let’s row the Slope boat! 🏆

Discover how our lean team of just 7 engineers has been the driving force behind Slope’s growth, from launching enterprise clients like IKEA to originating over hundreds of millions in payments volume through our platform. All while maintaining strict regulatory compliance requirements for a financial services company. In our latest six-part blog series, "How Slope operates a lean engineering team in the era of increasing productivity," Alvin Sng shares how we've optimized everything—from our tech stack to cultural shifts — to achieve high developer productivity without over-hiring. Check it out and learn how we’ve scaled smarter, not harder. https://lnkd.in/gW8se8EG