Lead Risk Analytics Data Scientist

2 months ago
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
Extend

Extend

Extend is a technology company that offers powerful product and shipping protection solutions to merchants, helping them generate revenue and enhance customer loyalty. Their modern and cost-effective services provide a win-win situation for both busine...

Air Freight & Logistics
251-1K
Founded 2019

Description

  • Design premium structures for new merchant categories, product types, and partnerships from first principles.
  • Validate pricing assumptions and launch decisions when historical data is limited.
  • Build tooling and recommend actions to improve loss ratio performance through claims, premium, and program changes.
  • Partner with Product, Program, Revenue, and Sales teams on new coverage and product category pricing.
  • Own and explain the risk narrative and performance drivers to senior leadership, including the C-suite.
  • Design data models and standards for the Risk Analytics function using modern data infrastructure.
  • Develop pipeline, modeling, and reporting workflows that support risk monitoring and decision-making.
  • Automate manual steps in the risk analytics workflow using AI tools and experimentation.
  • Support measurement of unit economics to inform business decisions throughout deal negotiation and launch.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in actuarial pricing, predictive modeling, or other Risk Analytics-related areas.
  • Strong analytical and data skills in SQL, Python or R, pipeline development, and data modeling.
  • Experience with dbt and Snowflake.
  • Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau or Streamlit.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
  • Relevant actuarial experience, such as ACAS or equivalent exam progress, preferred but not required.
  • Ability to communicate insights clearly to audiences with varying levels of data and analytics experience.
  • Interest in applying AI tools such as Claude and Gemini to improve day-to-day efficiency.
  • Ability to think beyond the insurance organization and make decisions that are best for the business holistically.
  • Empathy, humility, and curiosity.

Benefits

  • Expected base salary of $125,000 to $155,000 per year.
  • Full medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Stock in an early-stage startup with high growth potential.
  • Generous, flexible paid time off policy.
  • 401(k) with financial guidance from Morgan Stanley.
  • Collaborative and supportive team environment.

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