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Senior Data Scientist
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 comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.
About The Role
As a Senior Data Scientist at Coalition, you will be responsible for measuring, understanding, and optimizing Coalition’s underwriting. You will perform statistical analysis to provide data-driven insights. You will help us understand and improve our cyber risk selection and reduction, pricing, and automation to grow our revenue in a safe and efficient manner.
Responsibilities
- Analyze diverse datasets including claims data, cybersecurity risk signals, and underwriting databases to extract meaningful patterns and insights
- Conduct large-scale data analysis to produce valuable risk signals for underwriting or risk evaluation of organizations
- Develop and refine statistical and machine learning models to assess cybersecurity risks for underwriting and pricing applications
- Create comprehensive reports on underwriting efficiency metrics and risk selection quality to inform strategic decisions
- Apply statistical techniques to evaluate and improve cyber risk assessment methodology
- Provide analytical support for underwriting strategies to balance growth with risk management
- Identify, analyze, and implement opportunities to automate underwriting workflows using advanced analytics and data-driven strategies
- Collaborate cross-functionally with actuarial, product, and engineering teams to implement data-driven improvements
- Lead cross-functional initiatives in your area of expertise
- Serve as technical lead and mentor within the underwriting team
- Work alongside data scientists, software engineers, and cybersecurity engineers to improve underwriting at Coalition
- Leverage intellectual curiosity and proactive approach to identify improvement opportunities
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Skills And Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, or related discipline)
- 5+ years of experience in underwriting, quantitative analysis, or risk modeling in the insurance industry
- Knowledge of underwriting, pricing, reserving, or risk management processes in insurance
- Advanced SQL skills for querying complex databases and joining disparate data sources
- Expertise in data manipulation and analysis using Python, R, or similar analytical tools
- Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
- Experience with dashboard creation for operational metrics tracking
- Strong communication and analytical skills
- Capable of working with remote teams
Nice-to-have Skills:
- Actuarial qualification
- Experience in cyber insurance or cyber security
- Prior experience or willingness to learn how to work with large datasets and big data technologies (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Athena)
Perks
- 100% medical coverage, including outpatient care
- Life insurance
- 25+ paid holidays
- Annual home office stipend
- 7% employer pension contribution
- Mental and physical health wellness programs (e.g., Headspace, Wellhub)
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
At Coalition, work is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and collaborate to protect businesses from digital risk. Our exceptional growth stems from addressing real-world problems for organizations of all sizes, while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
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Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities for all stages of the hiring process. If you believe you need an accommodation, please contact us at [candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com].
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