Senior Data Scientist, Insurance Pricing — Remote

Porch Group; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Remote work

Wellbeing programs

Paid time off

Job summary

Porch Group in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Insurance Pricing to own development and production of homeowners insurance pricing and risk models. You will collaborate with actuarial, product, and engineering teams to translate Porch’s data into pricing advantages.

The role emphasizes GLM-based pricing, advanced ML, and experimentation, with opportunities to mentor junior data scientists and influence profitability and retention strategies across high-traffic environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data science experience with pricing or risk modeling.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end projects and mentoring experience.
• Experience deploying GLM-based pricing models in production for property/casualty lines.

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate, and deploy GLM-based pricing models (frequency, severity, loss cost) for homeowners pricing.
• Build ML models (GBMs, neural networks) to improve underwriting accuracy and profitability.
• Develop ensemble models including customer lifetime value to guide pricing and marketing strategies.
• Incorporate diverse data sources (aerial imagery, satellite, government records) for risk modeling.
• Collaborate with actuarial, product, and engineering teams to productionize data science solutions.
• Follow deployment best practices including A/B testing and monitoring.

Skills

Python

SQL

GLM pricing

Gradient boosting

A/B testing

Geospatial data

LTV modeling

Team mentoring

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Master's or PhD in statistics or related field

Tools

BigQuery

GCP

scikit-learn

statsmodels

xgboost

lightgbm

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Porch Group in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Insurance Pricing to own development and production of homeowners insurance pricing and risk models. You will collaborate with actuarial, product, and engineering teams to translate Porch’s data into pricing advantages.

The role emphasizes GLM-based pricing, advanced ML, and experimentation, with opportunities to mentor junior data scientists and influence profitability and retention strategies across high-traffic environments.