VP, Research Network & Scientific Enablement
•Arcadia· 8h
🏷️ Data Science⏰ Full-time👔 Executive💰 $220k-260k🇺🇸 USA
8h ago
Safelease·about 2 months ago
About SafeLease
SafeLease builds and sells insurance products for commercial property owners. Our reinsurance and asset management businesses insure over 4,000 properties, 500,000 tenants, and have over $1B of AUM. Our team of technologists, agents, and underwriters simplifies complex risks to intelligently allocate capital and deliver policies quickly and affordably.
We focus on insurance products for the self-storage industry but are rapidly expanding our suite of services to other industries. We believe traditional commercial insurance can be distributed faster and cheaper. To do that, we’ve brought the entire insurance value chain—distribution, underwriting, and reinsurance—under one roof to drive innovation in an industry that’s ripe for change.
Location: New York City or Austin, TX - (Hybrid)
Department: Data & Analytics
Reports To: CEO
We’re scaling rapidly and looking for a leader to shape and drive the data and analytics team to power our next stage of our growth. This is a high impact role with a seat at the leadership table.
We are seeking a highly strategic, hands-on Senior Vice President of Data & Analytics to lead all analytics initiatives across the organization. This executive will oversee the full analytics function—data management, collection, insights, reporting, and advanced strategic planning—spanning both our portfolio of real estate investments and insurance operations.
This leader must be able to roll up their sleeves, work autonomously, move fast, and drive measurable impact without requiring extensive support or infrastructure. They will set the vision for analytics and ensure the company leverages data to make intelligent, high-velocity decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the analytics strategy, setting the direction for data collection, management, analysis, and insight generation across insurance and investment management operations.
Oversee and develop a growing analytics function, ensuring high-quality reporting, modeling, and data practices.
Translate complex data into actionable insights that inform executive decision-making, operational improvements, and capital allocation.
Drive automation and analytics tooling, identifying opportunities to modernize systems and improve velocity of insight generation.
Mentor and build a high-performing analytics team while still being willing to execute hands-on work when needed.
Design and execute data collection frameworks, ensuring inputs are accurate, timely, and consistent across business units.
Build and operate analytics workflows personally when needed, including hands-on data analysis, dashboard creation, modeling, and KPI development.
Establish data governance standards, ensuring data quality, consistency, and compliance across the enterprise.
Partner with cross-functional executives (Finance, Operations, Product, and Technology) to embed analytics rigor throughout key initiatives.
Own analytics across a portfolio of investments, coordinating data gathering and reporting across our insurance and investment business to drive visibility and performance management.
Develop reporting platforms that support underwriting optimization, claims performance, distribution insights, financial forecasting, and operational measurement.
10+ years of experience in analytics, data strategy, business intelligence, or a related field.
Proven experience leading company-wide analytics programs, preferably in a fast-moving start-up environment.
Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically—comfortable working autonomously and rolling up sleeves to execute.
Strong background in data operations, statistical analysis, dashboarding, and data governance.
Experience working with or supporting investment portfolios and/or insurance/financial services analytics.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex data into executive-ready insights.
Track record of building and leading high-performing analytics teams.
Experience in insurance operations, insurtech, or commercial real estate investment analytics.
Proficiency in modern data tools (Snowflake, Databricks, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, SQL, Python, Metabase, etc.).
Background in operational analytics, underwriting data, claims modeling, or portfolio performance analytics.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation including salary, bonus, and equity.
Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, unlimited PTO, and 401k.
Opportunity to shape and lead the marketing function of a high-growth MGA.
Combination of office and remote working environments in NYC or Austin, TX.
Direct impact on strategy, brand, and the future of specialty P&C insurance.
Entrepreneurial culture with room to build, innovate, and own outcomes.
Why SafeLease?
The tech: Our prospects convert fast because we’re solving real problems and delivering serious value to commercial real estate owners.
The team: We’re a team of seasoned pros and sharp operators who know how to move fast and build smart. High standards, low ego.
The stability: We’re well-funded, growing fast, and we make sure our team shares in that success with competitive pay and equity.
The employee experience: We also offer unlimited PTO, full health benefits, flexible work setups, and the kind of culture where people want to show up to do their best work.
If you don't have all the qualifications listed, don't worry! We understand everyone's career path is unique and still encourage you to apply if you feel this role is aligned with your career trajectory.
Employment at SafeLease is contingent upon a satisfactory verification of a general and criminal background check.