AVP, Data Science, Enterprise AI Platforms

Travelers; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 192,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Travelers seeks an AVP & Data Scientist to lead a team delivering advanced analytics and machine learning for strategic business decisions. You will partner with executives to communicate insights, drive adoption, and influence strategic direction across lines of business.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, portfolio ownership, and building consensus to translate analytics into value while guiding platform and business stakeholders on model deployment and performance benchmarks.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in STEM or equivalent required; advanced analytics preferred.
• 7+ years of experience with 6+ years leading teams in analytics or data science.
• Expertise in modeling, research, analytics or actuarial concepts; strong executive interaction.

Responsibilities

• Present analysis, insights, and recommendations to executives for decisions.
• Lead portfolio of projects and managers to influence business outcomes.
• Drive data science strategies and recruit/coach team members.
• Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to benchmark models and measure performance.
• Ensure cost, latency, and quality trade-offs are considered across workloads.

Skills

Leadership experience

Executive communication

Statistics & ML

Statistical modeling

Team coordination

Python programming

Actuarial analytics

Education

Master’s degree in STEM related field or equivalent

Master’s degree in Statistics/Mathematics/Decision Sciences/Actuarial Science or related analytical STEM field

Tools

Claude

OpenAI

TravelersLLM

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Data Science

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$191,500.00 - $316,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers Data Scientists are taking the organization to the next level of intelligence by using advanced statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms. As an AVP & Data Scientist, you will lead a team responsible for challenging conventional thinking and communicating insights to executive business and analytics leadership. You will also collaborate with technology partners to drive analytics out to our products in the marketplace, giving Travelers a competitive advantage.

What Will You Do?

• Present analysis, insights, results, and recommendations to executives for decisions.
• Anticipate potential objections and influence executives to adopt a different point of view.
• Take ownership of a portfolio of projects and team of managers and leaders, making recommendations that influence business outcomes.
• Drive teams and leaders to ensure the successful execution of data science strategies.
• Start identifying organizational tension and work to build consensus across the organization.
• Assist in the development of business plans for the portfolio.
• Influence outcomes in the line of business and/or data science community through discussions, presentations, or peer reviews.
• Drive team recruiting, training, and talent assessment efforts.
• Provide guidance and coaching for team members; guide your team to advance their subject matter expertise and to identify future leaders to meet Travelers’ business objectives.
• Support the sharing of knowledge and best practices across the Enterprise.
• Partner across enterprise stakeholders to design benchmarks from real Travelers work, such as underwriting, claims, and coding, and measure frontier models (Claude, OpenAI), 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, including regression testing and cost, latency, and quality trade-offs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Master’s in STEM related field or equivalent.
• 10 or more years of related work experience, including 6 or more years of team leadership experience.
• Industry expertise in modeling/ research/ analytics or actuarial required.
• Industry level knowledge of value creation and business model concepts.
• Regularly interacts 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.
• Recognized industry expertise in 2-3 of the following: Regression, Classification, Machine Vision, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and Statistical modeling.

What is a Must Have?

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Decision Sciences, Actuarial Science or related analytical STEM field plus seven years of experience or any suitable and equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Heavy concentration in mathematics, including statistics and programming, business intelligence/analytics, as well as data science tools and research using large data sets.
• Additional verification of specific coursework will be required.

What Is in It for You?

• 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 dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.