AVP, Data Science, Enterprise AI Platforms
About The Position
As an AVP and Data Scientist at Travelers, you will lead a team that uses advanced statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms to generate insights and advance the organization’s intelligence. You will communicate insights to executive business and analytics leadership, challenge conventional thinking, and collaborate with technology partners to bring analytics into marketplace products. The role owns a portfolio of projects and a team of managers and leaders, driving execution of data science strategies and influencing business outcomes. It also partners across the enterprise to benchmark frontier and internal language models using real Travelers work, and collaborates with platform and line-of-business teams on workload transitions between models as vendors release new versions or retire older ones.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Decision Sciences, Actuarial Science, or a related analytical STEM field, plus seven years of experience, or a suitable and equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- A heavy concentration in mathematics, including statistics and programming, business intelligence/analytics, and data science tools and research using large data sets.
- Additional verification of specific coursework is required.
- Industry expertise in modeling, research, analytics, or actuarial work.
- Industry-level knowledge of value creation and business model concepts.
- Ability to regularly interact with executives and/or major customers using negotiating and/or influencing skills.
- Subject matter expertise in the majority of external software programs.
- Ability to apply emerging statistical procedures to large, highly complex work.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in a STEM-related field or equivalent.
- 10 or more years of related work experience, including 6 or more years of team leadership experience.
- Recognized industry expertise in two or three of the following: regression, classification, machine vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and statistical modeling.
Responsibilities
- Present analysis, insights, results, and recommendations to executives to support decisions.
- Anticipate potential objections and influence executives to adopt a different point of view.
- Own a portfolio of projects and a team of managers and leaders, making recommendations that influence business outcomes.
- Drive teams and leaders to successfully execute data science strategies.
- Identify organizational tensions and work to build consensus across the organization.
- Assist in developing business plans for the portfolio.
- Influence outcomes in the line of business and/or data science community through discussions, presentations, or peer reviews.
- Lead team recruiting, training, and talent assessment efforts.
- Guide and coach team members, helping them advance subject matter expertise and identify future leaders.
- Support sharing knowledge and best practices across the enterprise.
- Partner with enterprise stakeholders to design benchmarks based on Travelers work, such as underwriting, claims, and coding, and measure frontier models, TravelersLLM, and fine-tuned models against them.
- Collaborate with platform and line-of-business teams to define when and how workloads move between models as vendors release new versions and retire old ones, considering regression testing and cost, latency, and quality trade-offs.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage for employees and eligible family members beginning on the first day of employment.
- Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match on contributions up to the first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum.
- Paying it Forward Savings Program contributions to an employee's 401(k) account when the employee makes a student loan payment.
- Pension Plan funded 100% by Travelers.
- Minimum of 20 days of paid time off annually.
- Nine paid company holidays.
- Wellness program with tools, discounts, and resources.
- Mental health program with access to free professional counseling services, health coaching, and other resources.
- Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
