Chestnut ยท 5 months ago
Lead Data Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/StaffChestnut is a technology company focused on revolutionizing the insurance industry through AI-driven solutions. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will lead a team to unlock data-driven decisions, build robust data foundations, and develop predictive models to enhance user experiences and drive business impact.
Financial ServicesSmall and Medium BusinessesSoftware
Responsibilities
Unlock data-driven decisions: Explore and analyze customer data to provide insights, create business value, and inform product decisions
Build robust foundations: Collaborate and own end-to-end data workflows - from raw ingestion to analysis-ready pipelines - ensuring accuracy, consistency, and scale
Predict the future: Develop and deploy models to forecast outcomes, detect anomalies, and personalize user experiences
Be a thought partner: Bring a strategic lens to data by identifying data needs and shaping requirements
Raise the bar: Introduce best practices in analytics, experimentation, and modeling, including mentoring others to build a data-fluent culture
Qualification
Required
Fluent in SQL and Python and are comfortable owning data from ETL to modeling to visualization
Have built dashboards and reports with tools like Looker, Power BI, or Tableau and know how to tell a clear story with data
In partnership with engineering, have deployed predictive models into production and understand the full data lifecycle from data exploration to training to monitoring
Are comfortable with statistical testing, causal inference, and experiment design
Have worked in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and thrive when collaborating cross-functionally
Are excited by open-ended problems and know how to prioritize ruthlessly to drive business impact
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity, with 10 year exercise window for stock options
Remote-first culture built on trust, autonomy, and high performance
Team offsites for all of us to bond
Take what you need vacation policy
Top notch health, dental, and vision insurance subsidized by us
Company
Chestnut
Purpose-made producer management and compensation system for insurance carriers and their distribution partners.
Founded in 2022
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
2023 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-03-25Seed
Leadership Team
David Zhang
CEO & Co-Founder
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