Senior Data Scientist, Risk Analytics

About the Role:

You will be part of Extend's Risk Analytics team with ownership of claims analytics and monitoring. You will play a pivotal role in helping to scale the organization. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead analytics for claims operations and post-purchase product features. Guide Extend toward robust and actionable tools for monitoring and optimizing claim and servicing products and policies.
• Collaborate closely with business partners within Analytics, Operations, Product and Engineering to help optimize claim intake, adjudication and fulfillment product features for excellent customer experience and lower loss cost.
• Work directly with senior leadership to support management of our claims operations through analysis, data insights, creation of data pipelines, and dashboarding. 
• Support risk analytics through modeling and forecasting of our claims operations and insurance profitability.

What We’re Looking For: 

• A curious, entrepreneurial data scientist with plenty of grit, analytical prowess, creative thinking, and initiative
• Ability to communicate/present across the organization, especially to teams with less data & analytics experience
• 4+ years of work experience as a data analyst 
• 2+ years of experience risk, operations or claims analytics
• Expertise with SQL and Python/R
• Previous experience working with operations or product teams is a plus
• Bachelor's degree from Maths, Statistics, or a relevant major
• Empathy and humility

Estimated Pay Range: $125,000-$140,000 per year salaried*

* The target base salary range for this position is listed above. Individual salaries are determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, work location and job-related knowledge, skills and experience.