AXA Climate and Altitude

AXA Climate has 4 business units to support its clients and partners, based on expertise: Insurance, Training, Consulting and SaaS Products. Globally, we are a team of +200 climate experts, headquartered in Paris, spread over 5 continents and driven by the same desire for impact. Our purpose is to help Planet Earth become a true stakeholder of all companies, in the same way that employees, customers and shareholders are!

Altitude is the brand of our SaaS business. Our purpose is Adaptation. We build solutions, for decision makers, to enable climate and environmental adaptation. Our products are tailor-made for each persona: Private Equity firms, Agricultural cooperative, etc. We are +30 people working on it: product managers, designers, developers, business developers, etc.

We are autonomous within AXA Climate, but we work closely with the consulting and Science teams. We strongly believe that success is collective and we play as one team.

Altitude: 3 products strongly relying on data

Altitude ecosystem is built a bit like a startup studio. There are already 3 Altitude products: for investors, for corporates and for agriculture. We have +50 clients and are quickly growing. You can know all about our products here: www.axa-altitude.com

They are all running with our GIS Compute Engine modeling climate risks globally, our “Crown jewels”. For any geolocation in the world, we measure climate risks today and tomorrow for different scenarios (such as flood, heatwaves, wildfire, etc.). We also model biodiversity-related risks.

We are scaling the Data team, at the heart of Altitude value proposition, with 3 new recruitments including you!

Your mission as Climate Scientist

As a Climate Scientist in the Data team, you will lead the scientific part of all new developments. You will also be responsible for the quality and the state-of-the-art of the data available for our products.

You will be fully part of Altitude team, but collaborating very closely with AXA Climate Science team (transversal domain). Your core team is composed of 3 data engineers and a product manager.

Your mission includes:

• making sure we provide our clients with accurate and state-of-the-art data. You are the primary point of contact regarding climate models for the rest of the teams (Sales, Product, Customer success, etc.).

• bringing and developing new climate risks models (for instance Avalanche, Tornados, Sand storms, etc.) in collaboration with AXA Climate transversal Science team which includes 15 PhDs specializing in climatology, hydrology, geology, and other related fields.

• connecting with external labs, universities and data providers, to make us benefit from the latest improvements of science on climate and nature modeling.

• Experience: you recently got a PhD in Climate or Weather, after following an engineering curriculum.

• You are a scientist, looking to have an impact, with a business-oriented mindset.

• You are super collaborative, always happy to connect with different teams (both IN and OUT AXA Climate) to conduct new projects.

• Organized and rigorous: you pay attention to details in the execution and the follow-up of missions.

• You code in Python.

• Fluent in English and French.

More importantly:

• You have a strong interest for climate, sustainability, and science

• You’re a fantastic team player, with whom it is cool to work alongside.

• Initial call with Altitude VP

• Interview with HR

• 4 skills-based interviews (can be done within a week)

• Final decision