Managing Data Science Lead (Insurance)

Location: Amelia, Ohio, United States. The role is listed as remote, with a hybrid environment and an option to work on site. Candidates who are not currently local but intend to relocate for the hybrid schedule must provide additional information in a cover letter.

Company

American Modern Insurance Group, a hirify.global company, provides specialty insurance products and services for residential property and recreational markets across all 50 states.

What you will do

• Lead a team that builds and implements predictive analytics models and statistical analyses supporting financial and operational goals.
• Prepare predictive analytics analyses and modeling for complex projects and present results to internal and external customers and management.
• Develop actionable insights to improve customer satisfaction, policy growth, retention, and profitability.
• Oversee data preparation, anomaly identification, data quality evaluation, data scrubbing, transformation, and modeling techniques.
• Maintain modeling best practices, new techniques, and standard operating procedures with internal and external business partners.
• Communicate assumptions, results, alternatives, and advanced analytical procedures to business stakeholders and regulators when supporting rate filings or modeling practices.

Requirements

• Generally, 10 years of actuarial, data science, or predictive analytics experience, including 5 years of management experience.
• Strong background in statistical programming with R, Python, SAS, or related software, plus general programming, data knowledge, and SQL.
• Familiarity with linear and logistic regression, GLMs, CART, random forests, GBMs, principal component analysis, clustering, and shrinkage techniques including lasso regression.
• Experience with data wrangling, data quality evaluation, and transforming and cleaning data for analysis.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Statistics/Math, or Actuarial Science.
• Ability to collaborate across an international organization and build strong relationships within the company.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Fellowship in the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular employment with a flexible remote and hybrid work environment.
• Health, dental, vision, prescription, life, disability, and supplemental insurance options for employees and eligible dependents.
• 401(k) plan with up to a 5% employer match and a company-funded retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off starting at 24 days annually, family-care leave, volunteer leave, wellness programs, and educational assistance.
• Yearly bonus eligibility, adoption and infertility treatment assistance, free parking, and access to on-site cafeteria, fitness, wellness, and walking-trail facilities.
• Applicants requiring employer visa sponsorship will not be considered.

Hiring process

• Submit an application; a cover letter with relocation information is required if not currently local but intending to relocate for the hybrid schedule.
• Only selected candidates will be contacted to schedule an interview.