Senior Data Scientist - Amplify

Senior Data Scientist

Full Time | This is a Remote Opportunity

Compensation: $160k-200k

Amplify helps people build wealth through life insurance. We are the first direct-to-consumer platform that offers life insurance investment products where customers can invest tax-free through their life insurance and access it for anything they wish. We are trailblazing the life insurance industry, helping families protect what matters most to them.  

At Amplify, our mission is to add value into our customer’s lives while they are still alive and well. That goal starts with building a strong and collaborative Amplify team. We strive to cultivate an environment that takes care of people, so those people can take better care of our customers. We want our team members to be here for the long haul and that’s why our job is to ensure a culture of transparency, inclusiveness, support, ownership, growth and learning opportunities. 

​Job Summary:

As a Senior Data Scientist you will shape the future of Amplify with your expertise in quantitative predictive modeling, experimentation, and advanced sequences. Your strong predictive statistical modeling background will lead the development of frameworks that deepen understanding of lead scoring at Amplify. You will use AWS Sage Maker to collaborate on a wide array of complex problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Data, Product, and Engineering. The results of your work will influence and uplevel our Sales Team’s production and ignite greater scientific rigor into Amplify’s Platform serving thousands of customers across the nation.

Responsibilities:

• Own and develop the central predictive statistical models that forecast lead scoring at Amplify.

• Lead the model development process in AWS Sage Maker to implement production algorithms, including exploratory data analysis, data modeling, feature engineering, model training, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

• When not actively creating or training models, you’ll perform advanced analytics on internal data to provide direction, insights, and recommendations to aid in solving complex problems across all internal workgroups. 

• Assist in the creation of A/B testing of internal processes and procedures, measuring the impact of those tests, and then read out and provide recommendations based on the results of those tests.

• Translate complex business requirements into a bold strategy backed by data, invigorate a cross functional team around it, and deliver trajectory-changing results.

• Work in a fast paced and energizing, growth mindset environment with disruptive thinkers.

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of software or machine learning engineering experience building algorithms for business application at scale.

• Extensive experience with AWS Sage Marker for data science, machine learning, and model development.

• Experience leading development and deployment of predictive statistical model learning and data-based forecasting solutions in production.

• Experience with enhancing existing models with incremental variables and retraining models on a periodic basis. 

• Deep understanding of continuous vs. discrete vs. categorical variables, their impact on models, and experience with applying advanced techniques to combat overfitting.

• Advanced knowledge of SQL with the ability to pull, prep, and cleanse your own training data sets.

• Bonus points if you have experience with developing dashboards to track model performance and/or other analytical projects in Tableau. 

• Excellent leadership and communication skills. 

Physical Requirements: 

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.  

• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities. 

About Us:

Founded in 2019 by life insurance industry veterans, Amplify has been changing the way we approach life insurance to build wealth ever since. Previously, life insurance policies were used by the wealthiest 1%. Now, with our innovative software and expert life insurance agents, Amplify is providing access to everyone.

Emerging from the manual and agent-driven traditional industry, Amplify offers an intelligent customer journey with frictionless policy customization, pre-underwriting, and in-force policy management in a streamlined digital customer journey. Amplify is the first digital platform tackling the $70B permanent life insurance industry with a vision to launch a life insurance product that bridges health and financial wealth.

Amplify is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. Amplify encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.