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About the Role
Ascend is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to own measurement across critical financial operations surfaces. This role involves defining key metrics, setting operational thresholds, and ensuring accountability for their performance. The position is crucial for driving efficiency and accuracy within Ascend's platform.
Responsibilities
- Get deep into Ascend's products, data infrastructure, and metric definitions.
- Build relationships with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership.
- Audit production scores and thresholds and map instrumentation gaps.
- Propose and settle accuracy, success, and exception metrics for Ascend's products.
- Own thresholds for system automation versus human routing.
- Partner with Product and Engineering on instrumentation for new features.
- Fully own accuracy, success, and exception metrics across all products.
- Build and ship models that change workflows, such as confidence scoring, ranking, and sequencing.
- Monitor production scores, including predicted vs. realized, drift, and re-fit/retire dates.
- Design experiments to leverage product data.
- Translate product usage data into roadmap input.
Requirements
- Owned product data within a live workflow and influenced decisions with data.
- Deployed and owned models in a live workflow, including calibration, drift, and re-fit/retire decisions.
- Comfortable explaining technical concepts like calibration, drift, and predicted-versus-realized to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong SQL and feature engineering skills.
- Experience with payments is a plus.
- Ability to thrive in an early-stage startup environment and address data limitations proactively.
- Experience with Slack, Notion, Excel, Front, and Linear.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to quickly understand complex subject matter.
- Great attention to detail.
Skills
- Data Science
- SQL
- Feature Engineering
- Model Deployment
- Calibration
- Drift Monitoring
- Statistical Analysis
- Communication
Location
- San Francisco
- Columbus
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Ascend is transforming the $10T insurance industry with the first and only complete financial operations platform. Our AI-powered solution combines accounting automation, payments, and premium financing. We are the market leader, trusted by over 4,000 businesses, including more than half of the top 50 brokers. Our ~100 person team in San Francisco and Columbus has deep expertise in insurance, fintech, and AI. Our mission is to become the leading financial automation platform for insurance by 2030, building the financial backbone of the industry.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equal opportunity employment and embrace diversity within our organization. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We encourage candidates to apply even if their experience doesn't precisely match this opportunity. We value diversity and are dedicated to equal opportunity employment.