Data Scientist – Contract

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Counterpart

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Insurance • SaaS • B2B

Counterpart is a company that focuses on providing management liability insurance products tailored for small business owners and insurance brokers. They offer a comprehensive range of insurance products including Directors & Officers Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Fiduciary Liability, and General Liability coverage. Counterpart is recognized for its innovative approach to mitigating risks and delivering value through a user-friendly platform, supporting efficiency and effectiveness in claims management and risk assessment. The company is committed to supporting small businesses in navigating financial risks through custom insights and expert guidance. Counterpart partners with brokers to enhance client experiences and offers API integration for seamless service delivery.

11 - 50 employees

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Collaborate with insurance domain experts and engineering team members to predict insurance claims based on hundreds of different variables using sophisticated data science techniques. • Support the production of new data sources (e.g. web scraping, public/private APIs,) in a manner that minimizes development cycles while maximizing potential business applications. • Continuously challenge how we can improve our underwriting while reducing the number of questions that need to be answered in an application. • Maintain a clean production environment such that the data models can be easily interpreted and built upon by other data science and engineering team members. • Present your work, findings, and opinions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Build and support a team of data scientists and analysts to accelerate our learnings and elevate our product offerings.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor/Master in quantitative discipline (computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, physics, engineering or related field). • 3+ years of experience as a data scientist, data analyst or machine learning • Experience training machine learning models that have been deployed to execute business decisions • 5+ years experience with Python, including the typical data science stack (pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, scipy, Jupyter, etc) • Strong understanding of data science metrics and methodologies for measuring model performance • Experience tracking model performance in production • Comfortable building clean, repeatable experiments in a notebook environment • Communications skills for translating technical or statistical analysis results into business recommendations. • Familiarity with the tradeoffs of scaling data infrastructure and database systems. • Bias to practical action and creativity using data (we value past or present projects that support this).

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from Anywhere - Counterpart is a fully distributed company, meaning there is no office. We allow employees to work from wherever they do their best work, of course prioritizing meetings that often happen in US time zones. • Language Classes - We sponsor up to $100 per calendar year to be used towards language classes to help support your English language skills. • Paid Vacation and Time Off • Parental Leave - Development Partners will be eligible for unpaid Parental Leave to bond with a newborn, newly-adopted, or newly placed child. Under this policy, development partners and independent contractors will be eligible for up to 8 weeks of unpaid parental leave. Any time off will be subject to approval and must be requested at least 45 days in advance. • Computer - We reimburse you for your locally procured Macbook Pro. If you are still with the company after one year, it is yours to keep!