Strategy Analyst Jobs in California
Strategy Analyst jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in technology, entertainment, financial services, and healthcare, with demand at every level from entry-level associate to senior director. The largest hiring markets are San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, where companies like Apple, Disney, and Kaiser Permanente maintain deep strategy functions. Corporate strategy, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market planning are the most in-demand specialties across the state. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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INTRODUCTION
Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision. Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst will report to Senior Manager, Fraud Strategy. You will help build and scale fraud strategy for a growing lending business—owning execution today while shaping the long-term approach as we scale.
- Reduce fraud loss while supporting growth by building and optimizing fraud rules and strategies
- Own fraud monitoring and analysis, identifying risks across channels, segments, and customer cohorts
- Turn data into action by investigating trends, surfacing insights, and driving decisions
- Scale fraud operations by creating repeatable frameworks and improving coverage as volume grows
- Design and evaluate experiments to balance fraud risk, approval rates, and customer experience
- Partner cross-functionally to implement fraud controls across product, risk, and engineering
- Support new products and channels by ensuring fraud risk is managed from day one
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
About You
- 4+ years in fraud, risk, or analytics in fintech, lending, or financial services
- Strong SQL skills and comfort working hands-on with data
- Experience with fraud strategy, monitoring, or detection (not just operations)
- Ability to connect analysis to business outcomes (loss, conversion, approvals)
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Clear communicator with a strong sense of ownership and initiative
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Even Better
- Experience in unsecured lending (personal loans, fintech)
- Familiarity with fraud types (synthetic ID, ATO, first-party fraud)
- Experience with experimentation or modeling (Python/R)
- Background in 0→1 or scaling teams
LOCATION
This role will be based in the US.
COMPENSATION
A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future. Salary Range: $124,000 - $155,000 USD. Employees are also eligible for an annual performance-based bonus and equity.
BENEFITS
Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits, including:
- Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
- Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
- Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
- Robust tuition reimbursement program
- $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
- Competitive days of annual PTO
- Competitive parental leave
CULTURAL PRINCIPLES
What Makes an Earnie: At Earnest, our people bring our cultural principles to life. These principles define how we work, how we win, and what we expect of ourselves and each other:
- Every Second Counts: Speed is our competitive advantage. Our customers need better solutions, and the faster we execute, the greater our chance of success.
- Choose To Do Hard Things: We win by tackling the hard things that others avoid, fueled by grit and resilience.
- Pursue Excellence: Great companies, teams, and individuals never settle and are proud of the work that they do. What’s good enough today won’t be good enough tomorrow. Excellence isn’t a destination; it’s a mindset of continuous improvement.
- Lead Together: Our success comes from how we work together. Leadership is not about titles—it is about action. We take ownership, drive results, and move forward as a team.
- Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously: We take our work seriously, not ourselves. The stakes are high, but a sense of humor keeps us grounded, creative, and resilient.
At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.
Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.
INTRODUCTION
Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision. Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst will report to Senior Manager, Fraud Strategy. You will help build and scale fraud strategy for a growing lending business—owning execution today while shaping the long-term approach as we scale.
- Reduce fraud loss while supporting growth by building and optimizing fraud rules and strategies
- Own fraud monitoring and analysis, identifying risks across channels, segments, and customer cohorts
- Turn data into action by investigating trends, surfacing insights, and driving decisions
- Scale fraud operations by creating repeatable frameworks and improving coverage as volume grows
- Design and evaluate experiments to balance fraud risk, approval rates, and customer experience
- Partner cross-functionally to implement fraud controls across product, risk, and engineering
- Support new products and channels by ensuring fraud risk is managed from day one
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
About You
- 4+ years in fraud, risk, or analytics in fintech, lending, or financial services
- Strong SQL skills and comfort working hands-on with data
- Experience with fraud strategy, monitoring, or detection (not just operations)
- Ability to connect analysis to business outcomes (loss, conversion, approvals)
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Clear communicator with a strong sense of ownership and initiative
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Even Better
- Experience in unsecured lending (personal loans, fintech)
- Familiarity with fraud types (synthetic ID, ATO, first-party fraud)
- Experience with experimentation or modeling (Python/R)
- Background in 0→1 or scaling teams
LOCATION
This role will be based in the US.
COMPENSATION
A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future. Salary Range: $124,000 - $155,000 USD. Employees are also eligible for an annual performance-based bonus and equity.
BENEFITS
Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits, including:
- Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
- Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
- Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
- Robust tuition reimbursement program
- $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
- Competitive days of annual PTO
- Competitive parental leave
CULTURAL PRINCIPLES
What Makes an Earnie: At Earnest, our people bring our cultural principles to life. These principles define how we work, how we win, and what we expect of ourselves and each other:
- Every Second Counts: Speed is our competitive advantage. Our customers need better solutions, and the faster we execute, the greater our chance of success.
- Choose To Do Hard Things: We win by tackling the hard things that others avoid, fueled by grit and resilience.
- Pursue Excellence: Great companies, teams, and individuals never settle and are proud of the work that they do. What’s good enough today won’t be good enough tomorrow. Excellence isn’t a destination; it’s a mindset of continuous improvement.
- Lead Together: Our success comes from how we work together. Leadership is not about titles—it is about action. We take ownership, drive results, and move forward as a team.
- Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously: We take our work seriously, not ourselves. The stakes are high, but a sense of humor keeps us grounded, creative, and resilient.
At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.
Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.
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Strategy Analyst Job Market in California
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Who's Hiring
- Apple32
- Adobe25
- Intuit24
- Google22
- TikTok22
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software242
- Banking & Financial Services52
- Electronics & Hardware47
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals41
- Consulting & Professional Services30
What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in strategy analyst jobs across California.
- Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, or a related analytical field
- Demonstrated experience with financial modeling, forecasting, or quantitative analysis
- Proficiency in data tools such as Excel, SQL, Tableau, or Power BI
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive-level presentations
- Experience working cross-functionally with product, finance, or operations teams
- MBA or advanced degree preferred for senior and corporate strategy roles
Strategy Analyst Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a strategy analyst in California?
A bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, or a related field is the standard entry point, and no state-issued license is required to work as a strategy analyst in California. Many California employers, particularly in technology and media, favor candidates who have completed internships or rotational programs with Bay Area or Los Angeles firms. An MBA from a California business school such as UCLA Anderson, UC Berkeley Haas, or USC Marshall significantly accelerates advancement into senior strategy roles.
How much do strategy analysts make in California?
Strategy analysts in California earn a median of about $101,460 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $61,360 for the lowest 10% to over $174,970 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire strategy analysts in California?
Employers hiring strategy analysts in California right now include Apple, Adobe, and Intuit, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. California's concentration of Fortune 500 technology, entertainment, and healthcare companies means demand is steady and distributed across multiple industries rather than tied to a single sector.
Which California cities have the most strategy analyst jobs?
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Jose have the most strategy analyst openings in California. San Francisco and the broader Bay Area dominate because of the density of technology and venture-backed companies headquartered there, while Los Angeles draws demand from entertainment, media, and consumer brands, and San Diego's concentration of biotech and defense firms adds a meaningful share of openings.
Are there remote strategy analyst jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 28% of strategy analyst openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting the desk-based and analytical nature of the work. Strategic planning, competitive research, and financial modeling translate well to remote settings, though roles requiring regular executive presentations or cross-functional collaboration often stay hybrid.
How can I get hired as a strategy analyst in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a business analyst, operations analyst, or financial analyst role at a California company, then transitioning internally once you have exposure to strategic projects. Large California employers including Google, Wells Fargo, and Kaiser Permanente run structured rotational or associate programs designed for recent graduates. Building a portfolio of case studies or completing a CFA Level I credential signals analytical capability to hiring managers evaluating candidates without direct strategy experience.
Where can I find and apply to strategy analyst jobs in California?
You can find and apply to strategy analyst jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and target industry, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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