Senior Data Scientist

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’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to measure, understand, and help optimize Coalition’s insurance business. You’ll use analytics, experimentation, and modern statistical techniques to improve the cyber insurance customer experience and grow revenue safely and efficiently.

You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and insurance stakeholders to identify emerging trends, prioritize opportunities, and turn complex data into clear, actionable strategies that shape product and operational roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional analytics projects that uncover insights and optimization opportunities across the end-to-end customer journey
• Support the team’s long term goal of enabling data analytics agents for the business through context engineering support and data analysis
• Design and analyze experiments, and establish best practices for test design, power, guardrails, and interpretation
• Define, document, and maintain core funnel metrics, and build automated dashboards and reporting for leadership
• Synthesize findings from disparate data sources 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 and scientists, and contribute to team standards for code quality and documentation

Skills and Qualifications

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

Bonus Points

• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot
• Domain experience in insurance, insurtech, fintech, or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with tools like 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

Compensation

As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets.

In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $137,300/year up to $205,900/year.

For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $123,600/year up to $185,300/year.

Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your Recruiter can share more on the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Use of AI: We utilize AI-assisted tools to help us organize and review the high volume of applications we receive. However, our human recruiting team makes all final hiring decisions and interview selections, valuing personal connection over algorithms.

Application Updates: Consistent with our commitment to transparency, if you are interviewed for this role, we will provide a status update on your application within 45 days of your final interview.

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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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 [email protected]. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.

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