Senior Underwriter / Data Scientist, Descartes Underwriting
London
+ Bonus
Office located in Minster Court, London
Parametric insurance for climate, cyber & emerging risks
Be an early applicant
Parametric insurance for climate, cyber & emerging risks
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus
Office located in Minster Court, London
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help companies and communities build resilience in a world at risk.
Role
Who you are
- Graduated from a leading academic institution with a degree in mathematics, statistics, data science, physics or related
- 4 years of significant experience minimum (post graduation) in data science or related
- As a plus: track record of experience in leading a (small) team and managing business projects
- As a plus: prior experience in structuring, pricing & underwriting parametric insurance covers for climate risks
- Proficiency in Python (e.g. pandas, scikit-learn)
- Strong background in statistics and mathematics, showing clear understanding of probabilities
- Eye for quality, autonomous and attention to detail
- Fluency in English (written and verbal communication) is required
- Good level of one additional language (e.g. Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish...) is a plus
- Interested in insurance industry and climate risks modeling
- Strong team spirit
- Ability to work under pressure
- Eagerness to solve complex problems and technical challenges
- Rigorous, creative and meticulous mind
- Strong desire to learn and acquire responsibility
- Results oriented with the ability to work in a fast-paced and multi-cultural environment
What the job involves
- Descartes Underwriting is seeking a Senior Underwriter/Data Scientist (Parametric Insurance) to join the Underwriting Team based in London
- Reporting to the Underwriting Manager & Director of Descartes UK, you will be a key contributor to the development and deployment of climate risk models for the pricing, underwriting and monitoring of weather-related parametric policies for corporates and public entities
- Collaborate with the business team and brokers to understand client needs and risk transfer challenges to successfully underwrite new business and renew accounts
- Conduct thorough analyses for product design and coverage structuring in order to meet the needs and expectations of the clients
- Improve and develop pricing models in order to model the risk, underwrite policies for corporates and public entities, and monitor the portfolio performance and accumulation
- Contribute to insurance proposal and underwriting documentation in order to finalise policies for corporate clients and public entities worldwide
- Operate in the London market, leading discussions and projects with brokers and partners
- Collaborate with various divisions of Descartes in order to sustain the growth of the portfolio (e.g. R&D teams, Legal, Operations, Risk Management)
- Technical & Business Leadership: help both the underwriting strategy and the review of the work conducted by Underwriting Data Scientists, providing guidance on technical modeling matters & business requirements
Application process
- Step 1: HR Interview with our Talent Recruiter
- Step 2: In person or remote manager interview
- Step 3: Technical online test on Github
- Step 4: Remote or in person technical interview
- Step 5: In person team interview to meet our team and discover our offices
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The corporate insurance market is undergoing a momentous shift driven by a changing climate, the growing impact of natural catastrophes, and a rise in emerging risks. Climate change has become a real risk to businesses - one nature report, for example, found that the US alone could lose over $500 billion across 22 sectors if rising global temperature predictions materialise. The need for effective corporate insurance has never been higher.
Descartes Underwriting is looking to revolutionise how we approach insurance. Taking on one of the insurance industry’s traditional methods - catastrophe (CAT) risk modelling - Descartes is leveraging new data sources and fusing them with a host of AI algorithms. This provides what it describes as a “product offering which covers the full spectrum of natural catastrophes and emerging risk exposures.” Its AI-driven parametric insurance model is highly disruptive, and has proven highly successful - just a few years after its founding, Descartes had already become the leading InsurTech player worldwide.
Following major funding, Descartes is looking to scale up its approach to corporate and public entity risk exposures, growing its technology platform, expanding into new lines of business and targeting larger deals. With an existing client base spanning hundreds of corporations including a host of Fortune 500 companies, Descartes looks set for big things in the coming years.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$18.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $140.8m
Company HQ
Plaine-Monceau, Paris, France
Leadership
Tanguy Touffut
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Global Head of Parametric Insurance at AXA Corporate Solutions, then CEO of AXA Global Parametrics.
Sebastien Piguet
(Co-Founder & Chief Underwriting Officer)Previously Head of On-Demand Insurance Products at AXA Global Parametrics.
Kevin Dedieu
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer)Previously a Senior Consultant at MPG Partners. Also a visiting lecturer at École Polytechnique.
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