Staff Data Scientist, LTV — Lead Lifetime Value Modeling

Root Insurance; United States; Remote; USD 171.000 - 214.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Root Insurance is seeking a Staff Data Scientist I to lead the design, development, and oversight of lifetime value models that power our marketing, retention, and pricing decisions. You will partner with machine learning engineers, data and software teams, and business units to deploy, monitor, and improve these models, while coaching junior data scientists.

This role offers broad technical scope and active hands-on delivery across the lifecycle.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex, high-impact data science work, including production models that drive business decisions.
• Strong command of foundational data science principles, including statistical methods, predictive modeling, time-series forecasting, experimental design, measurement, and validation, with deep expertise in survival analysis, including time-to-event modeling, cure modeling, recurrent events, and censoring.
• Deep expertise in Python and SQL, with strong software engineering discipline in Python, including writing modular, well-tested, maintainable Python with clear interfaces and type annotations, and experience maintaining and refactoring a large shared codebase over time.
• Experience designing and operating systems of interacting production models, such as ensembles or chained predictions, with attention to computational efficiency, clarity, reproducible training and inference, workflow orchestration, version control, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Demonstrated ability to frame ambiguous modeling problems, evaluate technical tradeoffs, estimate the value of modeling work, and prioritize high-leverage opportunities.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to connect technical work to business goals and explain decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to varied audiences.
• A track record of shaping technical direction and raising the quality of others’ work through coaching, review, and shared standards while remaining accountable for hands-on delivery.

Aufgaben

• Lead the design, development, and oversight of lifetime value models powering our customer lifecycle ecosystem.
• Partner with ML engineers, data and software engineers, and business teams to deploy, monitor, and improve models across Marketing, Finance, Product, and Customer Experience.
• Coach data scientists through code review, design feedback, and mentorship; build reusable tools and standards for the team.

Kenntnisse

Python

SQL

Statistical modeling

Survival analysis

Time-series forecasting

Experimentation

Communication

Ausbildung

BS/MS/PhD in Statistics/Computer Science/Economics

Tools

Python

SQL

AWS

Docker

dbt

Airflow

Metaflow

MLflow

Jobbeschreibung

Root Insurance is seeking a Staff Data Scientist I to lead the design, development, and oversight of lifetime value models that power our marketing, retention, and pricing decisions. You will partner with machine learning engineers, data and software teams, and business units to deploy, monitor, and improve these models, while coaching junior data scientists.

This role offers broad technical scope and active hands-on delivery across the lifecycle.