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Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.
About the role
As a Data Scientist at Coalition you will be responsible for measuring, understanding, and helping optimize Coalition’s underwriting. You will perform statistical analysis to provide data-driven insights. You will help us understand and improve our cyber risk selection and reduction, pricing and automation in order to grow our revenue in a safe and efficient manner.
Responsibilities
Analyze diverse datasets including claims data, cybersecurity risk signals, and underwriting databases to extract meaningful patterns and insights
Large scale data analysis with the objective of producing valuable risk signals to be used for underwriting or risk evaluation of organizations
Create comprehensive reports on underwriting efficiency metrics and risk selection quality to inform strategic decisions
Apply statistical techniques to evaluate and improve our cyber risk assessment methodology
Provide analytical support for underwriting strategies to balance growth with risk management
Deliver analysis that will directly inform the development of automated underwriting systems
Collaborate cross-functionally with actuarial, product, and engineering teams to implement data-driven improvements
Work alongside senior data scientists, software engineers, and cyber security engineers to improve underwriting at Coalition
Intellectual curiosity and proactive approach to identifying improvement opportunities
Ability to work effectively with guidance from senior data science team members
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, or related discipline)
3-6+ years of experience in underwriting, quantitative analysis, or risk modeling in the insurance industry
Knowledge of underwriting, pricing, reserving, or risk management processes in insurance
Advanced SQL skills for querying complex databases and joining disparate data sources
Expertise in data manipulation and analysis using Python, R, or similar analytical tools
Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
Experience with dashboard creation for operational metrics tracking
Strong communication and analytical skills
Capable of working with remote teams
Nice-to-have Skills
Actuarial qualification
Experience in cyber insurance or cyber security.
Prior experience or willingness to learn how to work with large datasets and big data technologies (Snowflake, AWS Athena)
Perks
100% medical coverage, including out-patient care
Life insurance
25+ paid holidays
Annual home office stipend
7% employer pension contribution
Mental and physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Wellhub
Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
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