Bestow
Dallas, TX
51-200 employees
Building products and software that make life insurance accessible to millions of families.
Prior Listings
- Senior Data Analyst
- Senior Data Engineer
- Senior Data Scientist
- Sr. Data Scientist
- Engineering Director, Data & Data Science
- Senior Data Engineer
- Data Analyst
- Manager of Data Science
- Data Governance Analyst
- Data Analyst, Marketing
- Data Scientist
- Senior Data Analyst, Insurance
- Data Analyst, Advisors
- Senior Data Analyst
- Sr Analyst, Affiliates
- Analyst, Direct Mail
- Lead Data Analyst, Marketing
- VP, Data & Analytics
- Analytics Manager
- Lead Life Insurance Underwriting Analyst
VP, Data & Analytics
VP, Data & Analytics
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ABOUT BESTOW
Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families.
We strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 and 2022 lists!
The Bestow Data & Analytics team is highly visible, working across the company to support analysis of business performance, data-driven decision making, and predictive insights. We are responsible for data through its lifecycle from acquisition, processing into trusted and easy-to-use data sets, reporting, and driving the business to new opportunities through the application of data science.
The role can be based in Austin, Dallas, or Remote (US) #LI-Remote. Due to specific job requirements, remote employees may be required to travel up to 2 weeks per quarter.
THIS ROLE REPORTS TO
- CTO
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Shape and champion a holistic vision for the use and leverage of data, ML, and AI in the organization, make data science a key aspect of our product offering and drive bottom-line growth for our direct business and b2b partners.
- Lead an organization of 20+ BI analysts, data analysts, and data scientists.
- Focus on the application of analytics and data science to drive measurable business results
- Partner closely with senior and executive leaders across the organization to drive operational excellence through data and create new business opportunities.
- Partner with the Data Engineering team to ensure the best use of data tools, data sets, and data environment to support analysts and data scientists.
- Lead data governance, ethics, and compliance in collaboration with legal privacy and compliance teams.
- Support marketing teams by building attribution, propensity, and self-learning response models to gain deep knowledge and comprehensive understanding of the customer and run better targeting, funnel optimization, and audience selection experiments to drive towards automation of campaigns.
- Working alongside the underwriting and actuarial teams to drive innovation in life insurance risk and price modeling.
- Think outside of the traditional industry methods and use new data sources available to us to create new ways of modeling mortality, eligibility, and pricing.
- Support revenue teams for Bestow’s own sales channels and those managed on behalf of enterprise customers with reporting and analytics
YOUR EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years experience in management, including indirect management of cross-functional teams.
- 10+ years experience in analytics and data science and demonstrable experience in building data science capability
- Senior-level people leadership including the development of people leaders, and an understanding of organizational design strategies.
- Flexible leadership style and willingness to be hands-on while building out teams and practices in a growing organization.
- Expert in the selection and application of current technologies for analytics and data science (data warehouse systems, data visualization, data science platforms) including scalable data science environments
- Technical depth to guide a team of AI/ML experts in applying the most appropriate techniques emphasizing driving business impact
- Our data stack includes Tealium, DBT, Astronomer, Atlan, Python, Big Query, Arrikto, and Tableau. Familiarity with these and similar tools is required, as well as an eagerness to engage with teams on technical details. .
- Familiarity with data vendor ecosystem and leveraging of third party data sets as extensions of first-party data
TOTAL REWARDS
- Competitive salary, bonus & stock options
- Open PTO plan
- 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
- Generous equity grant based on level
- Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
TOTAL REWARDS
Competitive salary and equity based on role
Annual bonus based on company and individual performance
Flexible PTO plan
100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
Paid parental leave
Annual lifestyle spending account to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
Learning & Development opportunities
We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team.
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