Senior Associate, Data Scientist
Role Overview
The Senior Associate, Data Scientist joins the Advanced Analytics team at New York Life Direct.
The role delivers data-driven insights and analytical solutions supporting initiatives across marketing, underwriting, actuarial, operations, and fraud prevention.
The position independently translates business questions into analytical frameworks and owns scalable analytics solutions.
Key Skills for This Role
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Location and work arrangement
- The role is designated hybrid, with three days per week specified.
Role overview
The Senior Associate, Data Scientist joins the Advanced Analytics team at New York Life Direct.
The role delivers data-driven insights and analytical solutions supporting initiatives across marketing, underwriting, actuarial, operations, and fraud prevention.
The position independently translates business questions into analytical frameworks and owns scalable analytics solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own projects and analytical workstreams from problem framing and data exploration through feature engineering, model development, evaluation, and communicating results.
- Analyze structured and unstructured data using statistical and machine learning methods.
- Define business problems with cross-functional stakeholders and provide actionable recommendations.
- Partner with engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy models using model lifecycle best practices.
- Identify process improvements, enhance model performance, and drive efficiency.
Required qualifications
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
- Typically 1–3+ years of data science or analytics experience in a business or applied setting.
- Experience with Python and/or R, and familiarity with SQL.
- Strong foundation in statistics, machine learning, and analytical problem-solving.
- Ability to independently execute end-to-end analytical projects and deliver actionable insights from real-world datasets.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-influence skills; able to work independently and manage competing priorities.
Preferred skills
- Exposure to experimentation, model evaluation, or model monitoring.
- Experience in financial services, insurance, or direct-to-consumer businesses.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or SageMaker.
- Experience applying generative AI in business settings.
Pay
- Salary range is $80,000–$110,000 per year.
- The role is exempt and eligible for a discretionary annual bonus; additional incentive-program eligibility may apply.
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