Senior Data Scientist, Decisions - Risk

Lyft

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New York, NY Posted 63 days ago $148,000–$185,000 / year
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As a Data Scientist on Lyft’s Risk Solutions team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing community safety and financial resilience by leveraging large-scale data to identify high-impact opportunities that reduce claims costs. Your day-to-day responsibilities include partnering with Product, Engineering, Actuarial, and Claims teams to translate complex data into actionable strategies, designing experiments and predictive models aimed at reducing accident frequency and claim severity, and establishing metrics to measure product health and driver experience. You will need proficiency in SQL and Python, along with a degree in a quantitative field such as statistics or actuarial science, and 5+ years of industry experience in data science or analytics. This role offers the opportunity to work on mission-critical initiatives that directly impact safety and financial outcomes at scale.

Skills

Python SQL AWS R Jupyter Scikit-learn Pandas NumPy Matplotlib Seaborn Git CI/CD Kafka Spark PostgreSQL Hadoop Tableau PowerBI

What you'll do

  • Identify high-impact opportunities to reduce claims costs using large-scale data analysis.
  • Design and analyze online experiments to inform product and business decisions.
  • Develop analytical frameworks to monitor the performance of products and services.
  • Establish metrics to measure the health of products, business, and driver experience.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to translate data insights into actionable strategies.
  • Collaborate with Claims team to implement data-driven interventions reducing claims costs.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of industry experience in data science, analytics, or management consulting.
  • Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, actuarial science, economics, applied math, operations research, or engineering.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis.
  • Experience designing and analyzing online experiments to inform business decisions.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $160k
This role $166k
$96k most similar roles pay here $233k

This role pays more than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$193,325 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $166k versus about $160k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Lyft

Lyft is a transportation network company offering ride-hailing services across the US and Canada.

Lyft currently has 31 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,000–$185,000 across 31 roles with salary data.

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