Senior Data Scientist, Coalition, Inc., CA

Job Description

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.   

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

 

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our team and be responsible for measuring, understanding, and helping optimize Coalition’s insurance business. You will use analytics, experimentation, and modern statistical techniques to help us understand and improve our cyber insurance customer experience in order to grow our revenue in a safe and efficient manner.

This role will partner closely with key product, engineering, and insurance stakeholders to identify emerging trends, prioritize opportunities, and translate complex data into clear, actionable strategies that influence product and operational roadmaps.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional analytics projects that uncover insights and optimization opportunities across the end-to-end customer journey.
  • Design and analyze experiments; establish best practices for test design, power, guardrails, and interpretation.
  • Define, document, and maintain core funnel metrics; build automated dashboards and reporting used by leadership.
  • Analyze disparate data sources and synthesize findings into clear narratives with recommended actions.
  • Develop data models and scalable analytical workflows that improve reliability, repeatability, and time-to-insight.
  • Influence product and revenue leadership with data-backed recommendations and OKR tracking.
  • Mentor junior analysts/scientists and contribute to team best practices, code quality, and documentation.

Skills and Qualifications

  • 6+ years in analytics or data science with demonstrated product or revenue impact.
  • Expert SQL, including complex modeling, performance optimization, and clear documentation.
  • Proficiency in Python or R for analysis, experimentation, and reproducible workflows.
  • Strong grasp of statistical methods: hypothesis testing, experiment design, causal thinking, and interpretation.
  • Experience with BI tools such as Looker or Tableau; ability to build reliable, executive-ready dashboards.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management; ability to translate technical work for non-technical audiences.

Bonus Skills

  • Exposure and usage of AI Assisted coding IDEs like Cursor or Github Copilot
  • Domain experience in insurance, insurtech, fintech, or adjacent regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with Looker, Amplitude, Google Analytics, Marketo, Salesforce, Segment, or Zuora.
  • Experience with analytics workflow tools such as dbt or Airflow.
  • Exposure to causal inference methods and quasi-experimental designs.

Perks

  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
  • Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
  • Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

 

Why Coalition? 

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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Privacy Notice

Coalition is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. We collect, use, and store personal information as necessary for the recruitment process and in compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations in all regions where we operate. We want you to understand what personal information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding access, correction, and deletion of your data where applicable. Information submitted, collected, and processed as part of your application is subject to Coalition's Privacy Policy. For further details, please review our full Privacy Policy or contact us with any questions regarding how your information is handled.

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Anti-Discrimination Notice

Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.

Accommodations

Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.

To all potential candidates: Coalition primarily does not use third-party recruiting services. Potential candidates will only be contacted by Coalition, Inc. during the recruitment process. You can always verify any opportunity on our official careers page http://www.coalitioninc.com/careers.

To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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