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About Us
Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.
Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com
Our Team
From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we're a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We've come together to create the context-based insurance insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it's hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.
The Role
The Head of Data and AI will lead a ~25-person function to maximize value from our immense telematics and insurance loss datasets. This role will also define our data strategy, lead the application of AI, and contribute to company strategy as a core member of Quanata's leadership team. Scope of this function includes:
• Data Science: building sophisticated predictive models
• Data Analytics: generating insights and measuring success
• Data Engineering: productizing our models and providing a platform for rapid iteration
Your day-to-day
• Provide people leadership for the Data organization, including org design, leadership development, talent acquisition & retention, etc.
• Define and champion Quanata's data strategy and overall data architecture to best leverage immense amounts of telematics and insurance data
• Lead the team to define and prioritize modeling and platform work, balancing production implementation with continued innovation through R&D
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Program Mgmt to incorporate data solutions as part of cross-functional delivery teams
• Ensure all use of data meets security and compliance requirements, working closely with our Security & Governance teams
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI in our solutions and drive implementation
• Represent our data & AI capabilities to external clients / prospects
About You
• Proven success leading data functions across Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering
• Extensive hands-on experience building predictive models and implementing them into products
• Deep expertise in telematics data, similar IoT data, or insurance data
• Experience with B2B client delivery of data science model-powered services
• Experience working in a regulated industry, insurance or financial services
• Strong people-focused leadership, with a track record of employee development and engagement
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience applying cutting-edge AI solutions, in the context of prediction and other domains, is a plus
Other Job Details
• Reports to: Senior Vice President - Operations
• People Manager: Yes
• Location: Remote
• Percentage of Required Travel: 5%
• Required languages: English
Salary: $400,000 - $600,000*
• Important note: all offered salaries are based on many factors, including experience in a similar role and geographic location of the candidate.
Additional Details:
• Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
• Personal and Professional Development: We're committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive Udemy subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. Occasional travel may be required for team meetings or company gatherings. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 3PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.
Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice. https://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/FCO%20poster2020.pdf
This role is employed by Quanata, LLC is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.
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