Principal Analyst, Ethos Life
$127-224k
Life insurance provider
Be an early applicant
Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$127-224k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a big-picture thinker who loves digging into the data weeds to write the strategic story of enterprise growth, let's talk
- Experience Baseline: 5 to 8 years of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, data science, or analytically intensive individual contributor roles at high-growth tech startups or well-established firms
- Technical Mastery: Non-negotiable expert knowledge of SQL. Strong foundational knowledge of statistics and predictive data modeling is highly desired. Familiarity with scripting languages (Python or R) is a major plus
- AI-Native Workflow Fluency: Proven history of actively leveraging modern Large Language Models (like ChatGPT or Claude) inside your day-to-day workflow to streamline writing, debug calculations, and automate personal efficiency. Must rank in the top 10% of AI-fluent analysts
- Analytics Stack Exposure: Experience utilizing advanced visualization, dashboarding, and AI-enabled analytics environments (such as Hex, Tableau, Mode, or Excel)
- Unstructured Problem Solving: Exceptional talent for entering highly ambiguous situations, slicing past data records proactively to expose root causes, and organizing disparate facts into clear corporate narratives
- Executive Presentation Agility: Superior written and verbal communication skills; comfortable defending high-stakes analytical summaries to the corporate C-suite and Board of Directors
- Education: Advanced degree in a quantitative domain (Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math) or equivalent practical technical background
- Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace
What the job involves
- We are looking for an ambitious, highly analytical self-starter to step into an existential, high-visibility role within our Partnerships vertical. Partnerships is our high-velocity business line that provides independent insurance agents with a digital-first platform, automated underwriting infrastructure, and specialized services to help them seamlessly serve clients and grow their firms
- This is a critical role which is crucial for the absolute coverage of our US partnerships data ecosystem
- Working as an elite individual contributor, you will sit squarely at the intersection of product mechanics, data science, and operational strategy. You will partner directly with our business leaders to solve unstructured data puzzles, proactively flag macro financial risks, and define the behavioral milestones that turn new agents into long-term platform advocates
- Strategic Partnerships Data Lead: Serve as the primary analytics thought partner and data expert for the Partnerships leadership team, spearheading strategic decisions around agent acquisition, baseline pricing, and new market opportunities
- Core Product Analytics: Track, evaluate, and optimize the agent-facing platform experience. Define precision usability metrics for new product features to ensure engineering sprint cycles drive positive user actions
- Operational Risk & Commission Debt Architecture: Build diagnostic data models to analyze, track, and mitigate backend financial exposure. Slice historical operational datasets to pinpoint risk concentration hotspots within external agencies and design targeted debt recovery frameworks
- Strategic Input Modeling: Isolate critical growth levers across the agent journey to define the definitive onboarding metric (the "aha moment") that yields a positive snowball effect on platform retention and aggregate revenue generation
- Funnel Optimization: Manage performance frameworks and monitor conversion steps for our emerging annuities business lines using a classic Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) funnel approach
- Data Democratization & Infrastructure: Collaborate with data engineers and broader analytics teams to maintain scalable business logic, deploy clean tracking dashboards, and enable self-service analytics across the organization
- Tooling Innovation: Actively build, test, and integrate advanced generative AI tools to automate internal analytics processes and maximize delivery speed
- Team Mentorship: Provide ongoing guidance, peer code reviews, and tactical leadership training to distributed junior analytics resources across our global offices
Our take
Ethos was founded to increase the transparency of life insurance, making it accessible and affordable to all. The company wants to add openness to the process; losing a loved one is hard enough before one even considers financial implications, particularly with the loss of a primary earner.
Ethos uses predictive technology to rapidly quote life insurance rates and verify an applicant’s medical information. This expedited process allows most users to secure life cover on the same day they apply, a process which normally takes a number of weeks. The company works with some of the biggest providers in the industry, including Legal & General America, AAA Life and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
Ethos has been one of the more heavily publicized of the recent wave of insurtech companies, with investors such as Google as well as celebrities Will Smith and Jay Z, taking its valuation to over $2B and putting it in a great spot for future growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
72% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES D
May 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $406.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits packages: Awesome medical dental, vision and as applicable insurance coverage and retirement plans (in the US we offer a 401(k) plan).
- Company Equity: We want you to feel and act like an owner.
- Rest, relax & recharge: We encourage our employees to take time off, in addition to our fully paid global company holiday schedule. When you need time away from work, we have paid and flex time options based on your role and location, and additional paid leave programs.
- Generous leave programs: As well as offering a wide array of leave programs, new parents can take leave with 100% wage replacement. Our healthcare plans offer coverage on family planning and fertility.
Company HQ
Berkley Square - Headway, Austin, TX
Leadership
Peter Colis
(Co-Founder & CEO)After an MBA at Stanford, Peter co-founded Ovid Corp in 2014, where he worked as CEO for 4 years before co-founding Ethos in 2016. He has worked as CEO since, alongside serving as a Sequoia Capital Scout.
Lingke Wang
(Co-Founder)After working as an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley Lingke gained an MBA from Stanford. He then co-founded Ovid Corp. an insurance company before Ethos.
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