Senior Actuarial Data Scientist

About Ledger Investing

Ledger Investing is a Y Combinator-backed Insurtech startup that is transforming the way insurance risk is financed. Today, Ledger is an online marketplace, focusing on the securitization of insurance. Insurance securitization has quickly grown to be a $100 billion market but is limited in scope due to opacity and complexity. Ledger is expanding this market to $1 trillion by building a seamless data platform from the policyholder to the capital markets, enabling transparency, and bringing best-in-class analytics and real-time insights to the table.

Our recent $75 million Series B round of investment funding has set us up for exponential growth. We are on our way to disrupting the industry by serving as an unparalleled, advantageous marketplace for virtually all types of insurance risks and capital, including traditional reinsurers, institutional investors, and accredited investors.

Responsibilities:

• Use cutting-edge statistical techniques to stochastically model the underwriting performance of insurance programs for securitization
• Draw on a combination of statistics, actuarial, and business experience to formulate new statistical models to better forecast the future performance of insurance portfolios
• Backtest potential new software models in a robust, audited verifiable manner in production environments
• Document & organize work, including written & oral reports to key stakeholders, inside and outside of the organization
• May work with small teams of peers and/or subordinates on specific projects

Requirements:

• Masters in Data Science, Statistics, Actuarial Science, or similar quantitative field PLUS
• 3 years experience as an Actuarial Associate and/or an Actuarial Consultant is required PLUS
• 3 years experience with actuarial science and/or data science demonstrating a progressive increase in the scope of responsibility PLUS
• 3 years experience in Python and/or R programming PLUS
• ACAS from Casualty Actuarial Soc or equivalent required

Ledger Investing is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.