Senior Data Scientist

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About Ethos

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes!

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, and Robert Downey Jr. We are listed in Forbes’ Top 50 Fintechs of 2020. And for exciting news about our growth check out Life-Insurance Startup Ethos Valued at More Than $2.7 Billion. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!

About the Role

We are looking for an ambitious self-starter with a strong quantitative and programming background to dive into large datasets to provide insights and guide decision-making while mentoring other analysts and data scientists. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team in a huge growth area for Ethos. This role will put you in the middle of the action and require you to solve the most complex, interesting challenges of a rapidly-scaling startup. You will work cross-functionally across Marketing, Product, Operations, Sales, Partnerships, and Risk to provide visibility and understanding into the performance of our business and empower business leaders to make key decisions with data and analytical rigor. You will collaborate with leaders, product managers, and engineers to build scalable and robust systems to grow and maintain the powerful data engine that is core to our data-driven approach at Ethos. You will solve such problems as predicting customer lifetime values, understanding and predicting churn, providing visibility into customer behavior and segments, and much more.

Our Data Science team specializes in predictive modeling, causal inference, and mathematical optimization.  We apply these skills across the business to help delight our customers, fuel our growth, improve operational efficiencies, evaluate risk, and improve life insurance accessibility to protect more families.  If you have a proven background in data science and enjoy working in an environment that is fast-paced, mission-driven, and impact-oriented, read on and please apply!

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develop and own models to identify causal impacts and to predict future outcomes
  • Improve the speed and efficiency of our growth by collaborating with Marketing, Product, Operations, Sales, Partnerships, and Risk teams
  • Act as a strategic thought partner and be the go-to data expert in developing analyses and models
  • Gather and engineer new features for modeling
  • Conduct exploratory data analysis
  • Prototype end-to-end systems for prediction and automated decisions
  • Design and analyze experiments
  • Communicate findings and insights to key stakeholders and leadership team members to take action based on your insights and recommendations
  • Collaborate with data, machine learning, and application engineers to build production systems
  • Train and mentor the next generation of analysts and data scientists at Ethos

Qualifications and Skills:

  • Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, computer science, operations research, or applied math
  • 5+ years of experience in data science
  • Proficiency building predictive models using methods from machine learning and statistics
  • Experience prototyping solutions for automated decision making
  • Expertise with SQL
  • Expertise with Python
  • Experience with the Python data science ecosystem, including scikit-learn, pandas, statsmodels
  • Experience with application and package development
  • Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners

Ideal Candidate:

  • You are stimulated by solving complex problems
  • You enjoy being a player-coach - you can balance being an individual contributor early days with leading a team
  • You enjoy getting in the weeds but do not lose sight of the bigger picture
  • You can punch above your weight when needed but also appreciate that no job is too small, no matter your title!

Everyone is welcome at Ethos. We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand, embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.

More Information on Ethos Life
Ethos Life operates in the Consumer Web industry. The company is located in San Francisco, CA and San Francisco, CA. Ethos Life was founded in 2016. It has 250 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Volunteer in local community, Friends outside of work, Eat lunch together, Intracompany committees, Daily sync and Open door policy. To see all 2 open jobs at Ethos Life, click here.
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