Data Scientist

ABOUT LeaseLock:

LeaseLock helps the world find home.

We are the world’s leading insurtech platform for real estate. We insure over $9B in leases. Our customers include real estate behemoths like Greystar, Cushman Wakefield, Avenue5 Residential, Goldman Sachs, and TruAmerica. 

LeaseLock saw 400% growth in the past few years with more than 1.5M homes on our platform. In 2024 we’ll keep that momentum going and are expanding our team to support the growth

ROLE SUMMARY:

LeaseLock’s Data Science team develops machine learning models and provides analytical insights for various business purposes that include, but not limited to, risk controls, financial forecasting/planning, sales, & marketing. The ideal candidate can independently scope out impactful projects and prioritize work streams based on the needs of the business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop models and tools to predict property risk and prescribe financially viable policies that protect property owners from tenant delinquencies
• Deliver data-driven strategies and insights to help LeaseLock reach its operational and financial goals
• Identify data inconsistencies and build datasets/tables that enable new modeling frameworks and analytical use cases

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Modeling Skills — You have experience with the build, maintenance, and evaluation of models (e.g., GLMs, boosted trees) and the ability to communicate feature impact and model performance
• Software engineering skills — You’re proficient with writing production-level code in Python and SQL, maintaining Git repositories/packages, and deployment of data and modeling pipelines across multiple environments
• Analytical skills — You can derive strategic insights and forecasts from messy data and communicate technical information to non-technical audiences
• Experience — 5-8 years

NICE TO HAVE:

• Cloud experience — You know and have experience deploying and maintaining solutions on the cloud and familiar with distributed computing platforms (e.g., Databricks, Spark)
• Dashboard experience — You have used Looker, MLflow, or a similar BI tool for data visualization and reporting
• Domain experience — You have experience working in insurance/finance/real estate and using external datasets to enrich our understanding of property risk

LEASELOCK COMPANY VALUES

• Customer  The customer’s success is our top priority. 
• Empathy We support each other and embrace our diversity.
• Integrity We show up with honesty while bringing our authentic self to every situation.
• Innovation We are passionate about empowering ideas and making an impact with an infinite mindset.
• Optimism We are ambitious, resilient, and committed to achieving our goals with confidence

BENEFITS 

• Full health, medical and dental benefits
• 401k matching
• Unlimited vacation time