Senior Data Scientist

Help us grow into an ever-evolving marketplace. Seeking an experienced and talented Senior Data Scientist!

WHAT WE DO

Betterview is the Property Intelligence & Risk Management Platform that leading P&C insurance companies depend on to identify and mitigate risk, improve operational and inspection efficiency, and build a more transparent customer experience throughout the policy lifecycle. By empowering insurers to automate pricing, underwriting, and renewal while focusing strategic action on critical properties, Betterview is transforming the insurance industry from Repair and Replace to Predict and Prevent. Combining continuously evolving AI, predictive analytics, computer vision, and customizable workflows to geospatial imagery with commercial, private, and public data, Betterview supports your business's unique needs through transparent, actionable property insights.

Every day, our diverse team is focused on the needs of our customers. We strive to earn their trust by providing valuable, accurate insight that is important to their businesses. We provide our customers with information that is not only useful to their business decisions but is easy to use. We combine high-quality human interactions with sleek, intuitive design and are pioneers on the journey alongside our customers, who are transforming the way they do business with data-driven decision-making.

THE OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for a talented individual with excellent analytical skills and property insurance experience to join the Betterview team as a Senior Data Scientist. This role will support the growth of Betterview’s product suite to continually provide new insights and data to insurance customers and improve property risk assessment. The Senior Data Scientist will lead data science and model development initiatives from ideation and experimentation through product integration and rollout, and will also play a key role in developing materials and analyses to demonstrate and quantify the value of Betterview’s data and product for insurance industry customers. As a senior member of the Data Science team, this role will serve as a mentor to more junior data scientists and provide technical guidance across the team’s technical book of work. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing startup developing cutting-edge analytics in the insurtech space.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Create models to derive meaningful insights from data to inform property risk management and decision-making.
• Conduct robust validation studies to support regulatory reporting requirements for Betterview data and models.
• Contribute to ideation, design and implementation of Betterview’s suite of analytical products.
• Quantify value of Betterview data for insurance customers through rigorous analysis of past claims data.
• Develop materials to help our customers understand Betterview’s data and models and incorporate them into insurance operations.
• Identify and evaluate data sources for accuracy and potential to augment Betterview’s existing data catalog and/or improve existing models.
• Identify issues with existing data, models and processes; propose and implement solutions to resolve issues.
• Spearhead design and creation of new internal tools to facilitate data science team tasks.
• Mentor junior members of the data science team.
• Cultivate deep knowledge of Betterview’s data and leverage it to support continual improvement of our models.
• Update tasks in Jira and keep good notes.

Requirements

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO OUR COMPANY

• Insurance:
  • 3+ years of insurance industry experience, e.g., at a primary insurer, reinsurer, broker, agent or insurance-adjacent analytics company.
  • Foundational knowledge of property insurance and risk assessment fundamentals.
  • Experience using historical claims data to develop predictive risk models.
• Data Science:
  • 3+ years using Python for data analysis, visualization and modeling (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn).
  • Experience performing data extraction and manipulation using SQL.
  • Experience working on shared code bases and using git for version control.
  • Advanced degree in engineering, statistics, data science or related field.

The successful candidate:

• Has the ability and willingness to travel up to 10%.
• Has a proven track record of translating abstract goals into targeted technical problem statements, designing and running data science experiments to test hypotheses, and synthesizing findings for business stakeholders through written and verbal communication.
• Has a strong t