Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.
Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation.
Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster, reach more people, and deliver on its promise.
Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC) and trusted by major carriers, Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision, purpose, and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact, join us.
Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities.
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The Data & Analytics team is responsible for the data that powers Bestow and the Bestow Platform: the pipelines, models, and analytical products that our business teams, executives, and carrier partners rely on every day. We sit at the center of the company, partnering with product, actuarial, marketing, operations, and engineering to build the machine learning (ML) models and AI-powered, agentic tools that put data and predictions directly in stakeholders' hands.
This role is open to remote employees in the U.S. (48 contiguous states only.)
As a Senior Data Scientist on the Data & Analytics team, you'll split your time across two areas: building and productionizing machine learning models, and building the agentic AI tools and data products that turn one-off analysis and modeling work into durable, self-serve capability. This role is perfect for someone who is equally happy digging into a funnel conversion question, shipping a production model with monitoring in place, and building the agent that means no one has to ask the question manually again.
Machine Learning Model Development — Builds traditional ML models (classification, regression, anomaly detection) from proof of concept through production, with rigorous feature engineering and validation.
Production ML Ownership — Owns the full model lifecycle: deployment, performance monitoring, drift detection, and retraining, partnering with engineering to productionize within Bestow's platforms.
Statistical Rigor & Judgment — Applies strong statistical fundamentals and critical thinking, forming an independent point of view and questioning results before sharing them broadly with stakeholders; knows when a model is (and isn't) the right tool.
LLM & Agentic Systems Development — Builds LLM-powered and agentic applications (prompting, retrieval, tool use, evaluation) with the monitoring and human oversight a regulated industry requires.
Data Product & Self-Serve Enablement — Builds and drives real adoption of dashboards, natural-language interfaces, and agentic tools that let non-technical stakeholders self-serve.
Production Engineering (Python & SQL) — Writes production-grade Python and SQL with version control, code review, testing, and CI/CD; comfortable in cloud data warehouses like BigQuery.
Stakeholder Communication & Requirements Translation — Translates business questions from non-technical stakeholders into models and tools they can actually use, and builds enough business acumen to spot where data science work can create new opportunities, not just answer what's asked.
Ownership & Follow-Through — Acts as a self-starter: identifies opportunities and pursues them without waiting to be told, scopes their own work, and drives it through to real adoption.
Team & Communication Fit — Works well within Bestow's collaboration norms: written-first, async-friendly communication, offering suggestions and recommendations that influence outcomes, comfort giving and receiving direct feedback, and maintaining a positive, professional attitude even under disagreement.
AI Competency — Directs AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor)
At Bestow, we’re proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:
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We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire, recruit, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.
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Bestow partners with top life insurance carriers to deploy cutting-edge technology and data solutions that reduce costs, maximize efficiency, and drive growth by streamlining processes from origination and underwriting through administration.
