Head of Data Science & Analytics

Come and join the Flock as our Head of Data Science & Analytics

Who are we?

Flock is one of the world’s fastest-growing Insurtechs, backed by leading VCs including Anthemis (UK) and Social Capital (US). Our vision is to make the world a safer, smarter place by providing commercial fleets with real-time risk insights alongside state-of-the-art insurance. We now insure thousands of companies, including Netflix, Jaguar Land Rover, and the BBC. We aim to become the world’s leading insurer for connected and autonomous vehicles. Having closed our Series A fundraise earlier this year, we are now investing heavily in what we know to be the key to our future success - our people.

Purpose of the Role:

The main focus will be on risk and product insights to advance our value proposition - there will be a high degree of autonomy and the right candidate will have major influence over our long term innovation strategies, working with a modern, cloud-based toolset. You will be at the forefront to secure our position as an incredibly innovative InsurTech for the long term.

As the Head of Data Science & Analytics you will be:

• Defining the Data Science strategy, approach and technologies for Flock’s future direction
• Building sophisticated geospatial and risk models and algorithms to embed into our core propositions and to inform our pricing strategies, informed by real-time and historical telematics, geospatial and contextual data
• Growing, guiding and mentoring a team of Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers
• Collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and DevOps to optimise the models and predictive algorithms developed by you and your team
• Challenging existing approaches to come to better solutions
• Running strategic R&D projects to provide innovative solutions to our connected fleet proposition
• Seeing how your ideas will move extremely quickly into to our production and affect our customers
• Taking ownership of Business Intelligence, working with various stakeholders in the business (as well as our largest partners) to ensure we are well-informed with critical real-time information about business performance

Requirements

What our ideal candidate will have:

• One, or both of;
  • Experience working in a Geospatial and/or Telematics environment
  • Experience working in Actuarial/Risk/Insurance
• 5 years Data Science experience in an agile product-led or an innovation-led environment
• Experience of delivering Machine Learning models and algorithms in a commercial environment
• Strong background in a quantitative field including Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or any other relevant field.
• Experience working with popular toolings in Data Science & Analytics (for example, Python, R, Spark, Hadoop, dbt, Snowflake, Looker, Tensorflow, PyTorch)
• Experience in working in Cloud environments (AWS, GCP etc)

The wow factor (not required but the stuff we love to see!)

• Experience building protected/protectable Intellectual Property

You can learn more about Flock and our mission to save lives by building a global, fully digital insurance company here .