About Kinetic
The Kinetic team is on a mission to create a safer workplace and better life for the frontline workforce around the world. We are re-defining workers comp by focusing on three main pillars: injury prediction, prevention, and management. Kinetic develops technology-driven solutions in each of these areas to create best-in-class outcomes for our policyholders.
Kinetic’s first product is a smart wearable device that monitors kinematic motion of an employee, and helps provide coaching on high-risk ergonomic motions such as bending, twisting, and jumping. It has proven to be incredibly effective at reducing frequency and severity of strain and sprain injuries by over 55%. Since then, we have expanded into developing tools such as a rapid-return-to-work process, computer vision for safety in the workplace, and generative AI for claims management. This is an exciting opportunity to work at a company fusing technology with industry leading services to create happier, healthier employees.
Kinetic is based in New York city, but has workers based remotely in many geographic locations. At this stage, Kinetic has approximately 50 employees and is expanding rapidly due to the rapid growth, with 10x growth in just 2 years.
The role:
We are looking for a Data Scientist that enjoys diving into data and thinking analytically about business problems and user behaviors. The ideal candidate is excited to define and own company objectives and guide the company towards success through data-driven decisions. You will need the intuition to identify important analytical questions, the technical ability for complex deep-dives, and the communication skills to turn data insights into action. You will work with multiple insurance stakeholders, ranging from distribution to underwriting, claims, our self-insured customer success team and everything in between. In order to succeed, you’ll need to demonstrate strong capabilities at uncovering patterns and delivering data-driven insights. This is an individual contributor role with no management related responsibilities.
What you’ll do:
- Conduct deep-dive analysis to improve insurance product performance, with focus on pricing, distribution, and underwriting
- Identify, size and prioritize opportunities pertaining to growth and profitability. (Examples would be identifying which states or class codes to expand in)
- Partner with data engineering to design the right data model, logging, and data-pipelines.
- Work with cross-functional partners to determine the strategy of their team, then design the right metrics and targets to communicate and track their progress
- Create clear, compelling, and actionable insights based on data
- Develop dashboards to track progress against objectives, understand metric drivers, and help business stakeholders make data-informed decisions
- Build a knowledge base of competitor rating strategies and the overall competitive landscape
- At Kinetic, we welcome candidates who are enthusiastic about learning and adapting to the exciting world of AI, as a commitment to ongoing growth in this field is a fundamental part of our culture
What you’ve done:
- 5+ Professional experience in a quantitative analysis role, with a BS/BA degree
- Experience in the insurance industry (preferably in workers compensation), and the desire and capability to deeply understand the insurance products we offer and available levers
- Understands the full insurance value chain – agency, submissions, quotes, binds, policies, endorsements, cancellations and commissions.
- General knowledge of data science programming languages such as Python, proficiency in database query tools such as SQL, and comfortable with less structured data formats such as JSON
- Ability to define relevant metrics that can guide and influence stakeholders to the appropriate and accurate insights
- Experience building clear and easy to understand dashboards working with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Mixpanel etc.)
- Strong handle on basics of statistics (mean, variance, trends, etc)
- Ability to communicate effectively to cross functional partners of varying technical levels
- Experience influencing the product strategy through analyses
Big plus if:
- Experience at a startup, insuretech or MGA
- Experience in workers compensation
What we offer:
- $120k - 150k base salary potential plus equity
- Choose your OS - employees can choose any computer they prefer
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 20 vacation days per year
- 9 federal holidays off
- Parental Leave
- Pre-tax 401k contribution
- HSA with compatible health plans
- FREE: Health Advocate
- FREE: Telehealth Membership
- FREE: OneMedical Account
