Senior Manager, Decision Science

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position is a nationwide market range. The actual salary will be determined by factors such as role scope, complexity and location; the candidate’s skills, education, training, credentials and experience; and other conditions of employment. Employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

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At Travelers, our vision is to advance our ability to fuel analytic‑driven business decisions by accelerating cross‑enterprise collaboration and capabilities. As a Sr. Manager, Decision Science, you will combine data expertise, statistical principles, business understanding, relationship building, and communication skills to advance analytical maturity and business outcomes. Through explanatory modeling, analytics, experimental design and related inferential techniques, you will surface actionable insights that influence business decisions and strategies.

You are helping the business understand the why underneath trends and data, with speed and rigor from technical fluency in analytics and a willingness to adopt emerging AI tools where they add value. This discipline focuses on supporting business areas and activities beyond pricing and reserving, including Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, and others.

• Utilize a deep understanding of the business to procure data for current and future analysis or prototypes for new data assets, while following coding best practices.
• Seek opportunities to provide stronger data quality and recommend improvements.
• Determine and use appropriate techniques that may include complex diagnostic analysis, active monitoring, and/or multivariate methods designed to answer business questions, test hypotheses, or assess impacts and results.
• Explore and propose new data and analytic tools, techniques and industry best practices to apply to business problems—including evaluating where AI‑assisted workflows improve speed and quality without sacrificing analytical rigor.
• Apply appropriate visualization (charts, graphs, maps, etc.) to analytic insights so that they may be delivered to various audiences.
• Interpret and communicate findings to key stakeholders; recommend optimal business action based on balancing business constraints and analytical findings.
• Leverage existing organizational partnerships across lines and functional teams to influence analytic outcomes and start to inform strategic decisions.
• Serve as a mentor or resource for less experienced analytic talent, onboard new employees and interns, and provide support for recruiting and talent assessment efforts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM‑related field, or a Business School Master’s Degree with a concentration in a technical or analytical field.
• Five years of related data and analytic experience.
• Experience using explanatory, diagnostic, and inferential techniques such as experimental design, hypothesis testing, clustering analysis, time series and other statistical modeling algorithms, with the ability to select the appropriate methodology for each purpose.
• Experience working with large‑scale multidimensional data using advanced knowledge of open‑source cloud‑enabled analytical programming languages.
• Ability to foresee challenges and proactively seek ways to create more efficient processes for the business.
• Experience leading and managing complex projects.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact and translate analyses and methodology at various levels of the organization.
• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the data and analytics community across the Enterprise.

• Bachelor’s degree or four years of experience in data, analytics, engineering, science, technical analytical fields or relevant experience.

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members— including spouses, domestic partners, and children—are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions…