Staff Analyst

Ethoslife
Bangalore, India
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward data-driven professionals comfortable with strategic decision-making and AI integration, working in a high-growth tech environment in Bangalore with a focus on agent partnerships and operational risk analysis.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, experienced in high-growth environments.
    — “high-velocity business line that provides insurance agents with a digital-first platform”
  • Individuals with a background in building data models and identifying macro financial risks.
    — “Build diagnostic data models to analyze, track, and mitigate backend financial exposure”
  • Professionals who thrive in roles requiring macro-level insights and operational precision.
    — “Define precision usability metrics for new product features to ensure engineering sprint cycles drive positive user actions”

Things to consider

  • Requires top 10% proficiency in AI-native workflows, which may be a barrier for less experienced candidates.
    — “Must rank in the top 10% of AI-fluent analysts”
  • Candidates should be prepared to present complex analytical findings to the C-suite and Board of Directors.
    — “comfortable defending high-stakes analytical summaries to the corporate C-suite and Board of Directors”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience with strategic input modeling and how it drives agent retention and revenue.
    — “Isolate critical growth levers across the agent journey to define the definitive onboarding metric”
  • Highlight your ability to build and integrate generative AI tools into analytics processes.
    — “Actively build, test, and integrate advanced generative AI tools to automate internal analytics processes”
  • Showcase your ability to translate unstructured data into actionable corporate narratives.
    — “Exceptional talent for entering highly ambiguous situations, slicing past data records proactively to expose root causes”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Serve as data expert for leadership
  • Optimize agent platform experience
  • Mitigate backend financial exposure
  • Define onboarding metrics
Typical background
Product AnalyticsData Science

Skills & requirements

Required

Product AnalyticsOperational Risk AnalysisData ModelingFunnel OptimizationData DemocratizationTooling Innovation

Preferred

Generative AI ToolsERP Systems

Stack & domain

Product AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceData ScienceOperational StrategyData ModelsFinancial ExposureRisk ConcentrationDebt RecoveryGenerative AIInternal Analytics ProcessesScalable Business LogicClean Tracking DashboardsSelf-service AnalyticsData Transformation InitiativesAutomation And Efficiency OpportunitiesFinancial Reporting And AnalysisInventory And Supply ChainMaterial MovementCost TrendsFinancial StatementsBusiness MetricsFinancial ModelingERP SystemsPlanning ToolsStrategic ThinkingProblem-solvingTeamworkLeadershipCommunicationAttention To DetailMentorshipLife InsuranceTechnology PlatformAgentsInsurance ProductsSpecialized ServicesEnterprise GrowthData AnalyticsRisk ManagementFinancial Analysis

About the role

Original posting from Ethoslife via Greenhouse

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

About the role

We are looking for an ambitious, highly analytical self-starter to step into a high-visibility role within our Agent (Partnerships) business. Partnerships is our high-velocity business line that provides insurance agents with a digital-first platform, automated underwriting infrastructure, insurance products, and specialized services to help them sell more life insurance, faster.

Working as an elite individual contributor, you will sit squarely at the intersection of product mechanics, data science, and operational strategy. You will partner directly with our business leaders to solve unstructured data puzzles, proactively flag macro financial risks, and define the behavioral milestones that turn new agents into long-term platform advocates. If you are a big-picture thinker who loves digging into the data weeds to write the strategic story of enterprise growth, let's talk.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Partnerships Data Lead: Serve as an analytics thought partner and data expert for the Partnerships leadership team, spearheading strategic decisions around agent acquisition, growth, retention, persistency, and more. 

Core Product Analytics: Track, evaluate, and optimize the agent-facing platform experience. Define precision usability metrics for new product features to ensure engineering sprint cycles drive positive user actions.

Operational Risk & Commission Debt Architecture: Build diagnostic data models to analyze, track, and mitigate backend financial exposure. Slice historical operational datasets to pinpoint risk concentration hotspots within external agencies and design targeted debt recovery frameworks.

Strategic Input Modeling: Isolate critical growth levers across the agent journey to define the definitive onboarding metric (the "aha moment") that yields a positive snowball effect on platform retention and aggregate revenue generation.

Funnel Optimization: Manage performance frameworks and monitor conversion steps for our emerging annuities business lines using a classic Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) funnel approach.

Data Democratization & Infrastructure: Collaborate with data engineers and broader analytics teams to maintain scalable business logic, deploy clean tracking dashboards, and enable self-service analytics across the organization.

Tooling Innovation: Actively build, test, and integrate advanced generative AI tools to automate internal analytics processes and maximize delivery speed.

Team Mentorship: Provide ongoing guidance, peer code reviews, and tactical leadership training to distributed junior analytics resources across our global offices.

Qualifications and Skills:

Experience Baseline: 5 to 8 years of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, data science, or analytically intensive individual contributor roles at high-growth tech startups or well-established firms.

Technical Mastery: Non-negotiable expert knowledge of SQL. Strong foundational knowledge of statistics and predictive data modeling is highly desired. Familiarity with scripting languages (Python or R) is a major plus.

AI-Native Workflow Fluency: Proven history of actively leveraging modern Large Language Models (like ChatGPT or Claude) inside your day-to-day workflow to streamline writing, debug calculations, and automate personal efficiency. Must rank in the top 10% of AI-fluent analysts.

Analytics Stack Exposure: Experience utilizing advanced visualization, dashboarding, and AI-enabled analytics environments (such as Hex, Tableau, Mode, or Excel).

Unstructured Problem Solving: Exceptional talent for entering highly ambiguous situations, slicing past data records proactively to expose root causes, and organizing disparate facts into clear corporate narratives.

Executive Presentation Agility: Superior written and verbal communication skills; comfortable defending high-stakes analytical summaries to the corporate C-suite and Board of Directors.

Education: Advanced degree in a quantitative domain (Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math) or equivalent practical technical background.

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Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.

To learn more about what information we collect and how it may be used, please refer to our California Candidate Privacy Notice.

Recruitment Notice: Please be aware of recruitment scams. All legitimate communication from our team will only come from email addresses ending in @ethos.com or @getethos.com.

We will never ask for payment, banking details, or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent us from a different email address, please treat it as fraudulent.

Source: Ethoslife careers (Greenhouse)

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