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# Data Scientist, Analytics (Remote, Canada) at Zesty.ai

- **Company:** Zesty.ai
- **Location:** Canada
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** http://www.zesty.ai/open-jobs?gh_jid=7809591003

## Job description

Data Scientist, Analytics

(Remote, Canada)

Events in recent years have made us all too familiar with the havoc that natural disasters can wreak, and the increasing frequency and intensity with which they are occurring. Despite record levels of losses, conventional methods of risk modeling continue to paint at best an incomplete picture of these threats.

[ZestyAI](http://zesty.ai/) uses novel data gathering and data science methods to produce higher quality information about the risks to property from catastrophes like storms and wildfires. While AI alone may not be able to thwart these disasters, it can help us become more prepared for them, and ultimately that will lead to better outcomes.

As a Data Scientist, Analytics, you will work closely with product, engineering, and machine learning teams to apply data science to complex product and business problems.You will use diverse data sources to evaluate product performance, generate actionable insights, and support evidence-based decision-making across ZestyAI’s products.You will also help establish the analytical processes, monitoring frameworks, and best practices needed to maintain product quality and scale the organization. You thrive in a collaborative, creative environment that moves fast and are comfortable implementing structures and processes to help the company scale.

The Opportunity:

- Translate product management, engineering, and business questions into structured analytical approaches, applying appropriate statistical, experimental, and data science methods to measure product performance and guide decision-making
- Champion data quality of ZestyAI data products
- Lead product monitoring and quality assurance by designing and maintaining dashboards and KPIs
- Develop automated ETL and data workflows
- Iterate rapidly on everything; all of the above happens in a fast-paced business-driven environment that you must be comfortable with

What You Bring to the[ZestyAI](http://zesty.ai/) Team:

- BA / BS degree in Math, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, or Economics
- MS or Ph.D. is certainly a bonus
- 2–3 years of experience in analytics, data science, or related roles, including experience building data workflows, defining metrics, and developing dashboards or monitoring tools
- Strong organizational and management skills with past experiences implementing best practices and processes
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguous, cross-functional questions
- Proficient in SQL
- Proficient in programming language (Python or R)
- Experience working with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, etc)
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada

Nice to Have:

- 1 - 2 years of experience working with imagery and/or geospatial data
- Working knowledge of modeling framework and performance metrics
- Familiarity with, or an interest in, experimental design, causal inference, and applied statistical methods
- DBT Experience
- Prefect (or another workflow tool like Airflow) Experience
- Data Visualization Experience

Why[ZestyAI](http://zesty.ai/):

- Be part of a well-funded growth-stage company
- Market competitive comp and equity incentives to give you a stake in our future
- Comprehensive health care plan
- Flexible Time Off
- An upbeat and collaborative work culture
- Company-sponsored outings and offsites

## About Zesty.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ZestyAI provides an AI-powered property risk platform that helps property and casualty insurers underwrite, price, and manage risk with property-level insights for perils like wildfire, hail, wind, and water.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $71M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Attila Toth (CEO) and Kumar Dhuvur (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Insurance Technology (InsurTech), Property Risk Analytics
- **Target customers**: Property & Casualty insurers (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: Give insurers an edge by turning property and climate risk into a competitive advantage, helping protect families, businesses, and communities.

## Products & Services
- **Decision Intelligence Platform**: Combines a System of Intelligence (property-level peril models) with a System of Action (agentic AI) to automate underwriting, pricing, compliance, and reinsurance decisions.
- **Z-FIRE™**: AI model predicting which homes are most likely to withstand or be lost to wildfire; approved across the western U.S.
- **Z-WIND™**: Analyzes wind exposure and structural vulnerability to predict claim frequency and severity at the property level.
- **Z-HAIL™**: Combines climatology and 3D roof intelligence to assess hail impact and accumulated damage over time; approved across the hail belt.
- **Z-STORM™**: Evaluates combined effects of hail and wind for severe convective storm risk.
- **Z-WATER™**: Reveals hidden non-weather water and freeze risk from leaky pipes, aging plumbing, etc.
- **Z-SPARK™**: Identifies everyday fire risk for each property based on construction, systems, and surrounding conditions.
- **Z-PROPERTY™**: AI-powered property intelligence combining 3D roof modeling and parcel-level insights (condition, geometry, risk drivers) nationwide.
- **ZORRO Discover™**: Delivers property-level insights (e.g., roof age) from aerial imagery and permits.
- **Competitive & Regulatory Intelligence**: Agentic AI tool that extracts insights from millions of insurance filings, cutting research time by 95%.
- **Reinsurance Support**: Property-level data for pricing, coverage, and capital efficiency.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $11.3M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding $71M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Blamar (Series A lead), Centana Growth Partners (Series B lead), CIBC Innovation Banking (debt), Brex Venture Debt. Used by more than half of the top 100 P&C insurers.
- **Growth Signals**: 65 employees (+24.2% YoY), 200+ regulatory approvals, production deployments at leading U.S. insurers, rapidly expanding peril models and competitive intelligence capabilities.

## Competitive Advantages
- Proprietary AI models trained on actual loss data with actuarial discipline.
- 200+ regulatory approvals (DOI-ready documentation) – a significant moat in insurance.
- Peril-specific models (wildfire, hail, wind, water, fire) with proven segmentation power.
- Agentic AI for automating compliance and competitive research (95% time reduction).
- Remote-first, high-trust culture that attracts top AI and insurance talent.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding peril coverage and geographic regulatory approvals.
- Deepening the Decision Intelligence Platform with agentic AI for underwriting, pricing, and reinsurance.
- Growing competitive intelligence product to help carriers accelerate filings and monitor market shifts.
- Scaling customer base beyond top 100 carriers to mid-market insurers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High ownership, high trust, no ego, collaborative. Described as a "high-velocity innovation machine" with a 10X ROI mindset.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Fully remote-first by design, with intentional in-person connection (annual company offsites, team meetups, regional gatherings). Remote roles open in U.S. and Canada.
- **Benefits**: Equity for all full-time employees, comprehensive medical/dental/vision from day one, unlimited vacation, 401(k)/RRSP, home office setup funding, life & disability insurance, monthly team lunches, wellness programs.
- **Engineering Culture**: Work with cutting-edge AI (computer vision, generative AI, gradient boosting machines) applied to real-world insurance problems. High impact, high velocity, and fast learning.
- **Growth**: Bi-annual career discussions, surrounded by exceptional teammates.

## Sources
1. [zesty.ai](https://zesty.ai/)
2. [zesty.ai/careers](https://zesty.ai/careers)
3. [zesty.ai/about-us](https://zesty.ai/about-us)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zesty-ai)
5. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/zestyai)

## Other roles at Zesty.ai

- [Client Success Manager - Insurance Solutions (Remote)](https://feeny.ai/job/client-success-manager-insurance-solutions-remote-zesty-ai-remote-xhq08tbwfs7m)
- [Senior Data Scientist - Computer Vision (Remote, Canada)](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-scientist-computer-vision-remote-canada-zesty-ai-canada-cfnjgfq5x71t) — Canada