Data Scientist, Economist
The Hartford
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California • Connecticut • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,800 - $211,200 per year
About the role
- Develop bespoke economic indicators identifying unique trends and outcomes at the national, state, and local level broken out by industry.
- Create information and analytics that can be used by internal and external stakeholders to identify business trends and risks.
- Utilize creative methods to create a stronger understanding of economic risk, and its implications for industries/businesses in the US.
- Correlate the findings to implications for the insurance sector.
- Access publicly available economic data at the national, state, and local level and overlay with other noneconomic internally available data sets.
- Create methods and systems to integrate and curate the various data sets from their sources.
- Work with internal data engineering partners to source appropriate data.
- Build models to create localized trends and the bespoke economic indicators.
- Create presentations and determine unique new methods of displaying the data findings.
- Develop views on the national, state, and local economies.
- Ascertain new methods of injecting findings into the firm’s operations, strategy, underwriting, and financial planning.
- Join the team’s leadership in meeting with clients to present findings and outlooks.
- Develop presentations and briefings that can be utilized by the firm’s external partners.
- Contribute to the Global Insights Center’s external research publications.
- Prepare white papers outlining medium term views on key aspects of the US economy.
Requirements
- Ten plus years of relevant work experience as a data scientist or data engineer with a very strong knowledge of economics and quantitative techniques.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship
- Experience turning large data sets into economic indicators
- Experience at a financial institution, fintech firm, consulting firm, data science or data engineering firm, rating agency, or large corporation.
- Strong understanding of the US economy.
- Knowledge of building complex models.
- Effective communication and writing skills to further research publications.
- Experience briefing senior executives on complex topics.
- Strong process management discipline.
- Establishes priorities, anticipates problems, determines completion dates, knows and communicates the status of assignments; manages time effectively; uses the services of others effectively.
- Team player with a strong collaborative orientation; ability to build strong relationships across an organization.
- Entrepreneurial and creative focus to determine new work streams, initiatives, and deliverables that could be of value to internal parties and external clients.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity in a matrixed organization; ability to guide, influence and navigate effectively with different constituencies in achieving company goals.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Degree in computer science, data science, math, or economics is preferred.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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