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 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)