Senior Actuarial Data Scientist
Expedia Group
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction to the team
We are looking for an Actuary with a love for risk management, and deep knowledge of insurance & FinTech pricing and product development to join the EG InsurTech team. In this role, you will lead risk management of our FinTech portfolio. This is a highly analytical & partner facing role with the opportunity to make a significant impact on Expedia's revenues and interact with senior leadership. You will have a demonstrated ability to deliver results under tight timelines and exhibit excellent business judgment along with quantitative skills, a perfect mix of technical and non-technical skills.
In this role, you will:
Perform in a lead role on data analytics-focused projects where you will develop, evaluate, and deploy cutting-edge methods and models for travel insurance and related fintech products
Lead risk management & actuarial tasks such as valuation of products and liabilities and experience studies
Manage our reserving funds including working with external actuaries in partner insurance organizations as relevant
Provide actuarial inputs in pricing and claims throughout product life cycle
Build end-to-end design of actuarial process to provide scalable InsurTech product development and pricing support
Ensure compliance with applicable legal and accounting requirements, which may be in accordance with both US and international standards
Understand and contribute to building analyses and predictive ML models in Python/R
Collaborate and communicate effectively with our broader product team within a coding environment, while adhering to model development and maintenance best practices
Experience and qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor's degree (STEM field) or equivalent experience
Broad knowledge of pricing and risk aspects of the Actuarial field with Associate or Fellow Actuary designation (FCAS/FSA/ACAS/ASA)
7+ years of Actuarial/Analytical experience
4+ years of project leadership
Experience leveraging traditional insurance and non-traditional data sets using SQL
Experience conducting analyses in Excel and programming languages such as R, Python
Experience building and deploying statistical machine-learning models, such as linear regression, logistic regression, GLM, GAM, etc
Experience interacting with senior management
Preferred:
Advanced degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or other relevant courses plus 7+ years of directly relevant actuarial experience
7+ years experience working within the insurance or FinTech industry / claims experience
Proficiency in common ML programming languages (Python, R, Spark…) and familiarity with ML algorithms
High level organizational and project management skills for handling multiple concurrent assignments in a timely manner
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
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