Lead Data Scientist
Job Summary
Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company managing a diverse portfolio of pet health brands and services. As a leading authority in the pet category, they operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. The IDEA (IPH Data & Enterprise Analytics) team builds and operates the data platform, governance framework, and analytics capabilities that power decision-making across all brands.
Main Responsibilities
Develop predictive and prescriptive models to support pricing, risk, customer, and operational decision-making across the pet insurance portfolio.
Apply advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to a variety of business problems, including customer behavior, retention, and marketing performance.
Mentor other data scientists and analytics talent as needed, and develop data science rigor and expertise across the organization.
Partner with actuarial, product, and analytics teams to set data science goals and objectives and translate business questions into analytical solutions.
Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to deploy models into production and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
Communicate insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, leveraging learnings from insurance and other consumer-facing industries.
Qualifications
6+ years of professional data science or advanced analytics experience with a BS/MS, or 4+ years of experience with a PhD in a quantitative field.
Strong Python and SQL expertise.
Experience with large-scale datasets, structured and unstructured.
Familiarity with analytics engineering concepts or hands-on experience is a plus.
Pricing, underwriting, or risk modeling experience preferred.
Experience in insurance or regulated industries preferred.
Experience with cloud-based platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, or similar) and notebook-based workflows preferred.
Experience with dbt (data build tool) or related data transformation approaches preferred.
Exposure to concepts common in P&C, ecommerce, subscription, or marketing analytics (LTV, segmentation, A/B testing, etc) preferred.
Benefits
Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
Company paid short-term and long-term disability
12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Retail savings plan
Personal Paid Time Off
Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
Pet friendly office environment
Commuter Benefits
Group Pet Insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)