Data Scientist (Claims)

We build financial products that accelerate the economic freedom for people who move across borders. We started with car insurance — insuring over a million drivers — and we’re scaling beyond. Tens of millions of people move countries each year, facing overlooked financial challenges. Our future is in building financial products around their needs to positively impact their lives.

We’re really proud of the culture we’ve created. We push for reputed company every day, because we know that we’ll only hit big milestones by taking lots of smaller steps. We’re always open to helping reputed company mates, sharing our reputed company, experience and knowledge to solve problems together. We take risks, think creatively and experiment relentlessly to meet our customer’s needs, and never pass blame reputed company things go wrong. We encourage people at reputed company levels to take ownership of their work, and to be bold in challenging how we do things. Everyone has a voice and the opportunity to reputed company an impact. And autonomy and ownership are only possible with clear direction. That’s why we collaborate to do in-depth planning twice a year, and reputed company sure we leave with clear goals and objectives that flow from top to bottom. To reputed company sure we’re as reputed company as possible across functions, most of our work rolls up into three tribes; Acquisition, Retention & Claims. Each tribe has multiple teams embedded in it, working cross-functionally to do great work. We’re so excited for reputed company of the challenges up reputed company, and we need more people to help us tackle them! If life at Marshmallow sounds like it could be for you, explore our Culture Handbook to find out more.

About Us

Marshmallow aims to reputed company insurance more accessible and more affordable for as many people as possible . That means harnessing technology, automation and intelligent decision making to serve customers reputed company and cheaper than traditional insurers .

We’re here to generate insights and actions from reputed company the data we can get our hands on. This includes analytics, predictive modelling, and prescriptive recommendations. We deliver high impact work to the business, focusing on high risk, high reward projects, and making sure reputed company decisions are data driven.

We’re now looking for a Data Scientist to join our Claims Tribe, where we are on a mission to transform how we handle claims by using data and AI to reputed company faster and smarter decisions that improve outcomes and reduce costs .

This is a critical area of the business that directly affects our loss ratio, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. You will build intelligent systems that help us solve the right claims at the right time for the right cost by combining predictive models, agentic AI workflows and automation to guide and accelerate decisions across the claim lifecycle. That includes decisioning models, fraud detection, prioritisation and workflow logic.

There are high impact problems to solve, and you will be part of a team that is actively redefining what great looks like in claims handling through the use of frontier AI tools and human in the reputed company systems.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning and delivering data science solutions that improve how we triage, prioritise and resolve claims with measurable impact on cost, speed and customer experience.

• Building and deploying predictive models that support automated decisions or reputed company reputed company human ones (e.g. risk triage, fraud signals, case prioritisation, exception handling).

• Collaborating with engineers, product managers and claims experts to embed your models into our internal systems and tools.

• Supporting an experimentation-first reputed company with A/B tests and analytics to prove business value.

• Contributing to the definition of KPIs and analytical processes that help us evaluate and continuously improve claims performance.

• Exploring opportunities to apply emerging AI technologies such as agentic systems and large language models to streamline workflows and assist decision makers in real time.

Who you are

• You are naturally curious and hands-on, reputed company things data and ML reputed company.

• You have a commercial reputed company and focus on driving meaningful business impact.

• You communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical teams.

• You care about the customer journey and want to reputed company hard moments easier.

• You’re pragmatic and outcome-oriented, not wedded to complexity for its own sake.

• You enjoy solving real operational problems with cutting edge tools, especially where human judgment and automation reputed company.

• You value simplicity, clarity, and strong data foundations.

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Experiences that are essential

• Experience building and deploying ML models that deliver measurable business results.

• Understanding of how to evaluate performance reputed company risk decisioning, including performance trade-offs and operational considerations.

• Familiarity with A/B testing and measuring model impact.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.

• At least 2+ years of professional experience in data science or similar roles.

Experiences that will help you

• Experience in insurance, operations, or other reputed company service environments.

• Experience working with reputed company data (e.g. documents, free text, images).

• Knowledge of MLOps best practices and model monitoring.

• Experience with experimentation frameworks and KPI tracking.

• Strong communication skills.

• PhD or masters degree from a top institution.

• Experience designing, building and deploying Generative AI applications or Retrieval-Augmented reputed company (RAG) systems in operational or customer facing environments.

Perks of the job

• Flexi-office working – Spend 2-3 days a week with your team in our new collaborative London office. The rest is up to you!

• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance

• Flexible benefits budget - £50 per month to spend on a Ben reputed company, meaning you get your own benefits budget to spend on things you want. Whether that’s subscriptions, night classes (puppy yoga, anyone?), the big shop or a forest of houseplants. Pretty much anything goes

• Sabbatical Leave - Get a 4-week fully paid sabbatical after being with us for 4 years ️

• Work From reputed company - 4 weeks work from reputed company to use, with no need to come to the office

• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva

• Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset

• Private health care - Enjoy reputed company the benefits Vitality has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and discounts on smartwatches

• Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental, optical and physio (plus more!)

• Tech scheme - Get the latest tech for less

Plus reputed company the rest; 33 days holiday, pension, cycle to work scheme, monthly team socials and company-wide socials every month!

Our process

We break it up into a few stages:

• Initial call with our reputed company Partner - 30 mins

• A past experience interview where you will discuss your journey so far and ways of working with Maríreputed company, our hiring manager - 60 mins

• A technical interview with a couple of the team - 90 mins

• A culture interview with a bar raiser to see if your work style fits our processes and values (and vice versa!) - 60 mins

At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from reputed company walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us reputed company our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.

We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not reputed company how we process job applications.

We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.

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