Senior Actuarial Analyst
About The Position
Lyft is hiring a Senior Actuarial Analyst to support its growing insurance team. Actuaries at Lyft serve as business advisors and contribute to important decisions across core products. The role applies actuarial skills to complex pricing challenges in partnership with Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Public Policy. The analyst will help maintain actuarial data and ETL pipelines, develop data-monitoring dashboards, contribute to modeling, reserving, pricing, and financial reporting, and support competitive analysis. The position also involves improving data processes and coordinating with cross-functional teams to complete work accurately and on time. This is a hybrid, in-office role. Team members are expected to work in the office three days per week—Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday—and may work from anywhere for up to four weeks per year. The expected base pay range in the San Francisco area is $128,000–$160,000, excluding potential equity, bonus, and benefits.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Actuarial Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or a similar field.
- At least 3 years of relevant internships or entry-level experience in the P&C actuarial field.
- Personal or commercial auto insurance experience.
- Very strong SQL skills.
- Working knowledge of GitHub.
- Great communication and presentation skills.
- Strong organization and time-management skills.
- Ability to balance attention to detail with Lyft's fast-paced environment.
- Passion for actuarial science and eagerness to learn and grow.
- Highly innovative.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with ETL and R/Python, and an interest in coding and automation.
- Experience or knowledge in reserving or pricing.
- Experience with competitive analysis or financial statement analysis.
Responsibilities
- Assist in developing robust ETL pipelines and maintaining complete and accurate actuarial data for analysis.
- Design and build data-monitoring dashboards to drive data insights.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on modeling, reserving, and pricing projects.
- Contribute to process changes that promote prompt and accurate data delivery to cross-functional teams.
- Support financial reporting by providing key actuarial inputs and analysis.
- Support competitive analysis by researching financial statements, insurance company filings such as Schedule P, and other industry papers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of tasks.
- Take ownership of assigned tasks and drive insightful analysis.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance options, with additional programs available when enrolled.
- Mental health benefits.
- Family-building benefits.
- Child care and pet benefits.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- 12 observed holidays.
- Discretionary paid time off for salaried team members; 15 days of paid time off for hourly team members.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents.
- Subsidized commuter benefits.
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.
- Flexible scheduling during exam preparation and continuing education support for FCAS.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
