Liberty Mutual

Assistant Director, Data Science (STP)

Liberty Mutual$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field plus 2 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 4 years of experience.
  • Experience conducting data-driven studies in an insurance context, including hypothesis testing and results interpretation.
  • Proficient with insurance analytics platforms like Emblem or Earnix for decision support.
  • Skilled in implementing reproducible ML workflows with DVC and MLflow for version control.
  • Experience building production data pipelines with Snowflake and Airflow.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the delivery of predictive analytics solutions from problem definition to deployment.
  • Translate business goals into analytic strategies and project plans.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and align analytics with business strategies.
  • Apply machine learning and statistical techniques to complex datasets for insights.
  • Develop computer vision methods tailored for the insurance industry and ensure model performance.
  • Produce reports and visualizations to present findings to diverse audiences.
  • Document modeling processes and maintain model monitoring for performance over time.

Benefits

  • Telecommuting permitted up to 60%.
  • Opportunity for domestic travel up to 10%.
  • Engage in projects involving cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision techniques.
  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to impact business strategies.
Full Job Description
Description
Duties:  Lead end-to-end delivery of predictive analytics solutions, including problem definition, data preparation, feature engineering, model development, validation, and deployment.Independently translate business objectives into analytic approaches, success metrics, and project plans for medium-sized data science initiatives. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize use cases, and align analytics deliverables with business strategy. Apply machine learning, deep learning, statistical modeling, and optimization techniques to large structured and unstructured datasets to generate insights and predict outcomes.Identify and test hypotheses using appropriate statistical methods and evaluate model performance to ensure statistical rigor of findings. Develop and apply computer vision methods for insurance-domain use cases, including model training, evaluation, and monitoring. Produce clear visualizations and written/presented narratives that communicate findings and recommendations to non-technical and senior audiences. Document modeling methodology, assumptions, limitations, and results to support reproducibility and governance and implement monitoring to maintain model performance over time. Provide technical guidance through code review and best-practice recommendations to support team execution and consistency.Position requires domestic travel up to 10%. Telecommuting permitted up to 60%. Requirements:  Employer will accept a PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in an Asst Dir, Data Science (STP)-related occupation. Alternatively, employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or in an Asst Dir, Data Science (STP)-related occupation.  Position requires demonstrable experience in the following:Conduct experiments and data-driven studies to support business decisions in an insurance setting, including hypothesis testing, interpreting results, and communicating findings. Deliver strategic decision support using insurance analytics and pricing platforms, including Emblem, Earnix, or equivalent tools. Implement data and model artifact versioning and reproducible ML workflows using version control tools, including DVC and MLflow. Build and maintain monitoring dashboards and production data pipelines using data warehouse and workflow orchestration tools, including Snowflake and Airflow. Apply geospatial fundamentals, including coordinate reference systems, map projections, and pixel-to-geo transforms. Train, evaluate, and improve computer vision models, including object detection and segmentation, and perform model performance diagnostics and error analysis. Optimize deep learning training performance through profiling, efficient data loading, and training optimizations. Develop, deploy, and operate data science solutions using public cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure. Containerize ML services and pipelines using Docker and apply CI/CD and deployment automation practices for production releases. Monitor and troubleshoot production scoring and data pipelines, including performance tracking, incident triage, and root-cause analysis. Develop and maintain labeling guidelines and label taxonomies for computer vision datasets, and coordinate with annotation resources to support dataset development. Experience may be gained during graduate program. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and/or experience. Multiple Positions Available.  Qualifications
Duties:  Lead end-to-end delivery of predictive analytics solutions, including problem definition, data preparation, feature engineering, model development, validation, and deployment.Independently translate business objectives into analytic approaches, success metrics, and project plans for medium-sized data science initiatives. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize use cases, and align analytics deliverables with business strategy. Apply machine learning, deep learning, statistical modeling, and optimization techniques to large structured and unstructured datasets to generate insights and predict outcomes.Identify and test hypotheses using appropriate statistical methods and evaluate model performance to ensure statistical rigor of findings. Develop and apply computer vision methods for insurance-domain use cases, including model training, evaluation, and monitoring. Produce clear visualizations and written/presented narratives that communicate findings and recommendations to non-technical and senior audiences. Document modeling methodology, assumptions, limitations, and results to support reproducibility and governance and implement monitoring to maintain model performance over time. Provide technical guidance through code review and best-practice recommendations to support team execution and consistency.Position requires domestic travel up to 10%. Telecommuting permitted up to 60%. Requirements:  Employer will accept a PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in an Asst Dir, Data Science (STP)-related occupation. Alternatively, employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or in an Asst Dir, Data Science (STP)-related occupation.  Position requires demonstrable experience in the following:Conduct experiments and data-driven studies to support business decisions in an insurance setting, including hypothesis testing, interpreting results, and communicating findings. Deliver strategic decision support using insurance analytics and pricing platforms, including Emblem, Earnix, or equivalent tools. Implement data and model artifact versioning and reproducible ML workflows using version control tools, including DVC and MLflow. Build and maintain monitoring dashboards and production data pipelines using data warehouse and workflow orchestration tools, including Snowflake and Airflow. Apply geospatial fundamentals, including coordinate reference systems, map projections, and pixel-to-geo transforms. Train, evaluate, and improve computer vision models, including object detection and segmentation, and perform model performance diagnostics and error analysis. Optimize deep learning training performance through profiling, efficient data loading, and training optimizations. Develop, deploy, and operate data science solutions using public cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure. Containerize ML services and pipelines using Docker and apply CI/CD and deployment automation practices for production releases. Monitor and troubleshoot production scoring and data pipelines, including performance tracking, incident triage, and root-cause analysis. Develop and maintain labeling guidelines and label taxonomies for computer vision datasets, and coordinate with annotation resources to support dataset development. Experience may be gained during graduate program. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and/or experience. Multiple Positions Available. 

About Liberty Mutual

Since 1912, Liberty Mutual Insurance have committed theirselves to providing broad, useful and competitively-priced insurance products and services to meet their customers' ever-changing needs. Their delivery on this commitment is the reason they're now the third largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2012 direct premium written according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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