Director, Decision Science Analytics - Underwriting Analytics

Why USAA

At USAA our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA where our core values honesty integrity loyalty and service define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

This position can work remotely in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel.

The candidate selected will be on the front line of crafting a comprehensive discipline to support underwriting decisions and strategy with data and analytics. Since the team and capabilities will be built over time they will provide thought leadership and input into how the team comes together. This leader will work cross functionally with leadership in underwriting pricing analytics and IT to take underwriting to the next level in personal lines. They will be responsible for bringing new capabilities tools data and infrastructure to Underwriting analytics in support of USAAs mission and the multi-million dollar multi-year project to Reinvent Underwriting.

Leads and develops a highly analytical staff that provides decision support for business areas across the enterprise. By serving as a strategic partner to the business this function will be responsible for applying mathematical and statistical techniques and/or innovative /quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make insight to action recommendations to answer business objectives and drive change.

What youll do:

• As a strategic partner leads or collaborates with other analytical leaders in executing the strategic direction of the business using mathematical and statistical techniques and/or innovative/quantitative analytical approaches.

• Develops team reputation as highly skilled experts in the area of decision science support.

• Oversees and coordinates analytical tasks which include the evaluation of the business problem analytical methodology validation documentation and presentation of findings and recommendations.

• Monitors understands and embraces emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.

• Identifies additional resource needs ranging from IT investments 3rd party support or additional analysts and provides business rationale and justification for additional needs.

• Understands the business direction environment and strategies to set the analytic direction and crafts strategy to execute the approach that will influence business and drive change.

• Owns the effort and/or partners with enterprise analytics teams to build USAA core analytics capabilities and processes.

• Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting development retention mentor and support performance management and managerial activities.

• Assigns and or Serves as a mentor for mathematical skills and statistical techniques and guides teams to use the appropriate approaches to drive fact-based decision-making.

• Maintains and innovates knowledge of data analysis tools data visualization developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL SAS BI tools or other analysis software and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.

• Researches and pursues the latest and/or industry leading practices in data and analytics (Ex: Cloud Data Mining Python Neural Networks Sensor data IoT Streaming/NRT data) to advance the overall DSA community knowledge.

• Identifies opportunities to continue to learn in the data and analytics space whether informal (E.g. Coursera Udemy Kaggle Code Up etc.) or formal (E.g. Certifications or advanced coursework).

• Works with IT/CTO partners to advance new data and platforms that correspond to evolving skill sets.

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified measured monitored and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelors degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics Finance Statistics Mathematics Actuarial Sciences Operations Research Data and/or Business Analysis Data Science or other quantitative discipline; OR 4 years of related experience in statistics mathematics or quantitative analytics (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• 8 years of experience in a decision support analytic function OR advanced degree in relevant discipline 6 years of experience in a decision support analytic function.

• 3 years of direct team lead or management experience.

• Demonstrates expert skills in mathematical and statistical techniques and approaches used to influence Business Strategy with fact-based decision-making to all levels of leadership up to senior executive levels.

• Modernizes knowledge of data analysis tools data visualization developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL SAS BI tools or other analysis software and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.

• Experience with new and emerging data sets and incorporation (data wrangling data munging) into new insights.

What sets you apart:

• Industry experiences supporting P&C Underwriting with data and analytics (Property is helpful). This includes having strong underwriting and pricing acumen.

• Skilled in using data visualization tools such as Tableau and/or Opterrix to present data effectively.

• Possesses strong statistical acumen to effectively analyze and interpret data and business acumen to understand and contribute to strategic decision-making.

• Possesses a strong understanding of data infrastructure.

• Proficient in using Python R and SQL for data analysis and manipulation.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

What we offer:

Compensation: The salary range for this position is: $164780 - $296610.

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e. H-1B TN STEM OPT Training Plans etc.).

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical financial and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical dental and vision plans 401(k) pension life insurance parental benefits adoption assistance paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours and various wellness programs. Additionally our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits visit our benefits page on .

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.