Principal Research Data Scientist
Coalition
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.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.
About the role
As a Principal 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 and reduction, pricing and automation in order 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
- Analysis of 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
- Ability to analyze disparate data sources and synthesize into a narrative of what is happening in the data
- Training/mentorship of 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
- A 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 Points
- 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
Why Coalition?
We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.
Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain 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.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
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Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all individuals seeking employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. We also prohibit harassment or discrimination of applicants based on the above-protected categories. This policy covers all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, demotion, and termination of employment.
Accommodations
Coalition complies with US federal and state disability laws. Our policy is to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees unless the accommodation imposes an undue hardship. Contact us by emailing candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com if you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participating in the employee selection process.
We consider qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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