Senior Research Data Scientist

Key Skills

Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Data science techniques, Python Programming, R Programming, Statistics

Job Description

About Us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Coalition offers its Active Insurance products in the U.S., U.K., and Canada through relationships with leading global insurers including Allianz, Arch Insurance, Lloyd’s of London, Swiss Re and Zurich, as well as cyber capacity through its own carrier, Coalition Insurance Company. Coalition's Active Risk Platform provides automated security alerts, threat intelligence, expert guidance, and cybersecurity tools to help businesses worldwide remain resilient against cyber attacks.

Coalition comprises a team of cybersecurity and technology experts, as well as experienced insurance professionals, who have come together to build a world-class organization with a massive technological advantage. Our secret sauce is bringing these expertise together to create a world-class organization with one mission: to protect the unprotected as the world digitizes. Today, Coalition is one of the world’s largest commercial insurtechs serving hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.

Since its founding, Coalition has raised $755 million in equity funding, including $250 million in June 2022, affirming its ability to deliver profitable growth and cementing its position as a long-term business with a clear competitive advantage.

Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes, and by remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity and inclusion. We are proud to have been named among Inc.’s Best Workplaces in 2021 and 2023, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022.

About the Role

As a Senior Research Data Scientist at Coalition, you will be responsible for measuring, understanding, and helping optimize Coalition’s usage of data for cyber insurance. You will use analytics, experimentation, and modern statistical techniques to help us understand and improve our cyber risk selection/reduction, pricing, and automation to grow our revenue in a safe and efficient manner.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects using quantitative analysis and advanced data modeling to discover insights that will guide strategic operational decisions and uncover optimization opportunities
• Analyze large scale data for creation of risk signals to be used for insurance pricing and risk selection
• Lead the design and delivery of data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics that support key product decisions
• Analyze disparate data sources and synthesize into a narrative of what is happening in the data
• Train and mentor junior employees
• Contribute and grow the culture of data excellence on our team by bringing mature empathy, best practices, and processes to our organization

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in related analytical, data science or consulting background
• Understanding of and experience with experimental design and statistical methods
• Experience working with data in Python, R and similar tools
• Strong communication skills and ability to convey complex topics to non-technical audiences
• Passion, drive, and a deep sense of responsibility. We build the systems that keep us and our customers safe!

Bonus Skills

• Experience with cybersecurity data
• Exposure to causal inference, and other advanced statistical methods to measure impact of initiatives

Perks

• 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Gympass, and more)!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
• Coalition’s individual pay is determined on several factors, including but not limited to, location, level, skills and experience. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000 - $205,000, and your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process.