People Projects Lead, Descartes Underwriting
CDI
+ bonus
Parametric insurance against climate risk
Be an early applicant
Parametric insurance against climate risk
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a new generation of parametric solutions: fully transparent, customised to the client’s needs and providing swift claims payment.
Role
Who you are
- You have already experienced working in a fast-growing environment
- 4-6 years’ experience in a fast-paced environment that enabled you to work on a variety of topics with a wide range of stakeholders (e.g. consulting)
- You are interested in People topics, eager to learn and to be hands-on; past experience in HR projects is a plus
- You have strong project management and analytical skills
- You are recognized for your professional efficiency and ability to structure
- You have excellent communication skills in a multicultural environment ; you are recognized as a true team player
- You are fluent in English
- You recognize yourself in values like: excellence, diversity & respect, humility, grit
What the job involves
- Support Descartes growth and resilience globally
- Bring the best possible experience for all employees in all our locations
- The team is led by a global Chief People Officer who joined the company in mid-2024, sits at the Executive Committee and shapes the People agenda, sponsored by the founders. The People team is currently composed of 8 people
- Strategy definition and implementation: drive the evolution of our organization by co-defining and steering Descartes’ people strategy - incl. creating roadmaps, defining and managing budget, and ensuring successful implementation
- People team coordination: partner with the CPO to ensure clarity on priorities and foster seamless collaboration across the People team. Facilitate team routines and promote alignment across all HR initiatives
- Performance steering: build and maintain dynamic HR KPI dashboard(s) to track and communicate impact effectively at all levels of the organization
- Operational excellence: identify operational weaknesses and improve or create programs and processes to keep them as efficient as possible
- Project management: lead and execute innovative transversal projects
- Example projects include:
- Compensation & benefits policies definition and implementation
- Internal communication revamping
- Tools or processes optimization (ex.: HR information systems)
Application process
- RECRUITMENT PROCESS:
- Step 1: HR Interview with our Head of Recruitment
- Step 2: Manager Interview with our Chief People Officer
- Step 3: In-person team interview to meet our team and discover our offices (held remotely if you are abroad)
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
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$18.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $140.6m
Company benefits
- Work in a rewarding and international environment
- Gain exposure to working with top management
- Continued learning and development (think annual seminars, training etc.)
- Frequent team events
- Work in a collaborative and professional environment
- Benefit from a hybrid way of working
Company values
- Think & build globally from the first iteration
Company HQ
Chaillot, Paris, France
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Leadership
Tanguy Touffut
(CEO)Previously Global Head of Parametric Insurance at AXA Corporate Solutions, then CEO of AXA Global Parametrics.
Sebastien Piguet
(Chief Underwriting Officer)Previously Head of On-Demand Insurance Products at AXA Global Parametrics.
Kevin Dedieu
(Chief R&D Officer)Previously a Senior Consultant at MPG Partners. Also a visiting lecturer at École Polytechnique.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Descartes Underwriting
- At Descartes Underwriting we value diversity across multiple dimensions – cultural, cognitive, leadership & experience. Our diverse multilingual and multicultural team is core to our value proposition, allowing us to think & build globally from the first iteration. We seek talents who will add additional analytical perspectives & insights
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