Senior Associate Data Scientist

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week

Business Unit Overview:

At New York Life Direct, you’ll be joining the nation’s #1 direct-to-consumer provider of life insurance. The AARP Life Insurance Program from New York Life is endorsed by AARP and is the only life insurance program developed exclusively for AARP members. Your work will help more Americans achieve greater financial security and peace of mind.

Role Overview:

As a Senior Associate, Data Scientist on the Advanced Analytics team, you will lead and deliver data-driven insights and analytical solutions that support key business initiatives across New York Life Direct. Working as part of a collaborative team, you will apply statistical analysis, experimentation, and machine learning techniques to solve real-world business problems across marketing, underwriting, actuarial, operations, and fraud prevention. In this role, you will independently translate business questions into analytical frameworks, own the delivery of scalable analytics solutions, and contribute to the team’s overall impact.

What You’ll Do:

You will own data science projects and/or key analytical workstreams across the full lifecycle, including problem framing, data exploration, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, and communication of results. You will work be able to work independently but will also have access to a highly collaborative and experienced team to help tackle complex or ambiguous challenges. You will apply…