Staff Analyst

Ethos Life; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos Life in Bengaluru seeks a Strategic Analytics Lead for the Partnerships business. You will sit at the intersection of product mechanics, data science, and operational strategy, partnering with business leaders to shape growth and optimize the agent platform.

You will build diagnostic models, drive funnel optimization, and deploy scalable analytics with self-service dashboards while mentoring junior analysts across global offices.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in product analytics, BI, data science, or analytically intensive IC roles at growth tech firms.
• Expert SQL; strong statistics and predictive modeling.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled workflows and LLMs in daily tasks.
• Proficiency with dashboards and analytics environments (Hex/Tableau/Mode/Excel).
• Excellent executive communication and narrative skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics for Partnerships, guiding agent acquisition, growth and retention.
• Track, evaluate, and optimize the agent-facing platform experience.
• Build diagnostic data models to analyze financial exposure and debt risk.
• Isolate growth levers across onboarding to maximize revenue and retention.
• Collaborate with data engineers to deploy scalable dashboards and self-service analytics.
• Mentor junior analytics resources across global offices.

Skills

SQL

Statistics

Python or R

AI fluency

Data visualization

Executive communication

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative field

Tools

Hex

Tableau

Mode

Excel

Job description

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

About the role

We are looking for an ambitious, highly analytical self-starter to step into a high-visibility role within our Agent (Partnerships) business. Partnerships is our high-velocity business line that provides insurance agents with a digital-first platform, automated underwriting infrastructure, insurance products, and specialized services to help them sell more life insurance, faster.

Working as an elite individual contributor, you will sit squarely at the intersection of product mechanics, data science, and operational strategy. You will partner directly with our business leaders to solve unstructured data puzzles, proactively flag macro financial risks, and define the behavioral milestones that turn new agents into long-term platform advocates. If you are a big-picture thinker who loves digging into the data weeds to write the strategic story of enterprise growth, let's talk.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strategic Partnerships Data Lead: Serve as an analytics thought partner and data expert for the Partnerships leadership team, spearheading strategic decisions around agent acquisition, growth, retention, persistency, and more.
• Core Product Analytics: Track, evaluate, and optimize the agent-facing platform experience. Define precision usability metrics for new product features to ensure engineering sprint cycles drive positive user actions.
• Operational Risk & Commission Debt Architecture: Build diagnostic data models to analyze, track, and mitigate backend financial exposure. Slice historical operational datasets to pinpoint risk concentration hotspots within external agencies and design targeted debt recovery frameworks.
• Strategic Input Modeling: Isolate critical growth levers across the agent journey to define the definitive onboarding metric (the "aha moment") that yields a positive snowball effect on platform retention and aggregate revenue generation.
• Funnel Optimization: Manage performance frameworks and monitor conversion steps for our emerging annuities business lines using a classic Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) funnel approach.
• Data Democratization & Infrastructure: Collaborate with data engineers and broader analytics teams to maintain scalable business logic, deploy clean tracking dashboards, and enable self-service analytics across the organization.
• Tooling Innovation: Actively build, test, and integrate advanced generative AI tools to automate internal analytics processes and maximize delivery speed.
• Team Mentorship: Provide ongoing guidance, peer code reviews, and tactical leadership training to distributed junior analytics resources across our global offices.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience Baseline: 5 to 8 years of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, data science, or analytically intensive individual contributor roles at high-growth tech startups or well-established firms.
• Technical Mastery: Non-negotiable expert knowledge of SQL. Strong foundational knowledge of statistics and predictive data modeling is highly desired. Familiarity with scripting languages (Python or R) is a major plus.
• AI-Native Workflow Fluency: Proven history of actively leveraging modern Large Language Models (like ChatGPT or Claude) inside your day-to-day workflow to streamline writing, debug calculations, and automate personal efficiency. Must rank in the top 10% of AI-fluent analysts.
• Analytics Stack Exposure: Experience utilizing advanced visualization, dashboarding, and AI-enabled analytics environments (such as Hex, Tableau, Mode, or Excel).
• Unstructured Problem Solving: Exceptional talent for entering highly ambiguous situations, slicing past data records proactively to expose root causes, and organizing disparate facts into clear corporate narratives.
• Executive Presentation Agility: Superior written and verbal communication skills; comfortable defending high-stakes analytical summaries to the corporate C-suite and Board of Directors.
• Education: Advanced degree in a quantitative domain (Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math) or equivalent practical technical background.

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