Director, Decision Science, Bond and Specialty Insurance R&D

This analytic leadership role within our Research and Development team is responsible for partnering with business stakeholders to solve complex technical problems through data-driven solutions and innovative approaches.

• Lead and coordinate initiatives around third party data within the Research and Development team.
• Assist in driving innovative technical solutions, develop tools and provide analytic assessments in support of Bond’s initiatives around frictionless underwriting.
• Produce analyses which help drive strategic business decision making around the sales, customer and underwriting portfolios.
• Support Strategic Platform projects as need arises.
• Participate in other analytic projects/research/experiments as questions from the business areas arise
• Collaborate and coordinate with various technology teams to ensure quality product.
• Ensure smooth transition as LLMs and models are updated, including developing appropriate testing protocols.
• Maintain awareness of technical advancements in order to determine best solutions for new projects and ensure continuous improvement for existing solutions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field, or a Business School Master’s Degree with a concentration in a technical or analytical field.
• Seven years of related data and analytic experience.
• Experience using explanatory, diagnostic, and inferential techniques such as experimental design, hypothesis testing, clustering analysis, time series and other statistical modeling algorithms with the ability to decide the appropriate methodology for the purpose.
• Experience working on large-scale multidimensional data using advanced knowledge of open-source cloud-enabled analytical programming languages.
• Experience leading and managing complex projects.
• Ability to think strategically and use judgement to resolve issues as they arise.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact, tailor, and translate analyses and methodology and influence at senior levels of the organization.
• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the Enterprise.

• Health Insurance
• 401k matching
• Pension Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program
• Volunteer Encouragement

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