Lead Product Data Scientist

About the role

As the first Lead Product Data Scientist, you will shape how Zego makes its biggest product and commercial decisions by working directly with senior leaders. You will build the foundations for a trusted experimentation framework and customer models to guide product investment and strategy. This is a senior, hands-on role focused on using AI to scale data science across the business.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leaders to embed data science in strategy and decision making.
• Create and own a prioritised roadmap for where data science can have the biggest impact.
• Own Zego’s experimentation framework, including design standards and decision rules.
• Coach teams to run routine experiments themselves.
• Partner with Product teams to shape ideas into evidence-based hypotheses.
• Apply causal inference where randomised tests aren’t possible.
• Build models of customer behaviour across the lifecycle, including acquisition, retention, and churn.
• Use AI to scale data science and build self-serve tools for teams.

Required skills

• Data Science
• Experimentation
• Causal inference
• Customer modeling
• Python
• SQL
• AWS SageMaker
• Machine Learning

Nice to have

• Statsig
• Amplitude
• Snowflake
• dbt
• Looker
• Media mix modelling
• Incrementality testing

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Share options
• Private medical insurance
• Pension
• Generous holiday
• Annual learning and travel budget

About the Company

Zego is an AI-first insurance company building real-time, AI-driven infrastructure to power innovative insurance products. They focus on high-performance builders and aim to lead the AI evolution in the insurance industry.