Sr. Data Scientist, FolioGuard

Description

Hi, We’re AppFolio

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company – we’re pioneers in cloud and AI who deliver magical experiences that make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing how people do business in the real estate industry, and we want your ideas, enthusiasm, and passion to help us keep innovating.

We’re hiring a Senior Data Scientist to drive the product analytics and experimentation strategy for AppFolio’s risk mitigation business. You’ll help protect millions of people from financial risk by driving growth for AppFolio Insurance Service's renters' insurance offering while partnering with product, engineering, design, and other data scientists to solve challenging problems and propel one of our fastest-growing businesses to greater heights.

Your Impact:

• Serve as the strategic liaison between FolioGuard leadership and product management to spearhead insurance-related product adoption initiatives.
• Analyze and champion data-driven efforts within FolioGuard’s suite of insurance products, making strategic product decisions, optimizing purchase funnel performance, and achieving attributable outcomes in policies purchased and renewed while mitigating canceled premiums.
• Develop and implement robust experimentation frameworks in partnership with product and engineering teams, leveraging A/B testing and data-driven methodologies to drive continuous growth and enhance user experiences.
• Conduct sophisticated customer and user behavioral segmentation to assess the impact of new products or policy changes, deepening insights available for FolioGuard leadership.
• Identify and advocate for data-driven product changes that improve the interpretability of FolioGuard product data.
• To facilitate more effective adoption reporting, partner across Resident-focused Data Science efforts to advocate for and build shared data assets for multi-purpose applications. This will allow for deep insights into root cause and Insurance financial driver trends across high-dimensional data.
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• Strategic Influence: Proactively connect leaders towards the common goal of bettering the company via Data Science and Product Analytics. Leverage uniquely informed perspectives to highlight business/customer ‘win/win’ opportunities to stakeholder leaders to inform and inspire action.
• Advanced Business Acumen: Has a deep understanding of how businesses work and is knowledgeable in SaaS vertical practices, trends, and technology. Applies the right financial, customer, and product metrics, strategy, and market knowledge to make sound business decisions.
• Communication / Executive Presence: Has authentic communication skills, including transparency and clarity in both formal and informal settings including one-on-one, small and large groups across different levels and departments. Applies exceptional presentation skills to distill complex information into simple concepts & compelling stories.
• Programming Skills: Highly proficient in SQL and knowledgeable in relational databases and data structures. Strong background in Python and/or R for statistical analysis and machine learning and familiarity performing EDA with Notebooks
• Data Communication & Visualization: Communicates results to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear manner at a level necessary for decision-making. Able to produce dashboards and data visualizations using Tableau or similar software.
• Cross-Functional Knowledge: Navigates across verticals and functions and understands how each department contributes to our mission. Able to build relationships and quickly establish trust with others to make things happen. Brings teams and people together to accomplish important things.
  
  
  

Must-Have

• Strong mathematics, statistics, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge or familiarity with the insurance space
• 6+ years of work experience in a Data team, including statistical software (e.g., R, Python) and relational database languages (e.g., SQL - Snowflake preferred).
• Experience building data products and transforming data inside of data pipelines
• 6+ Product Analytics and user behavioral data expertise.
• Data Visualization: Streamlit, Tableau, (Looker, PowerBI)
  
  
  

Nice to have

• Data modeling experience using DBT.
• Experience building data products, data pipelines, tooling or automation
• Experience in one or any of the following:
• Customer Workflow Products (customer input data)
• B2C Marketplaces
• Marketing software products
• B2B SaaS Products
  
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary/hourly wage that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $127,000-$170,000

The actual base salary/hourly wage for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.

Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.

Why AppFolio

Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.

Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.

Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.

Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.

Paddle as One.

Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers

Statement of Equal Opportunity

At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.