Director, Data Science - Rollout acceleration AI

Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in Boston is building a new US Data Science team to develop pricing AI evaluations. The three senior data scientist roles will partner with the pricing line of business to assess AI value, accuracy and risk, guiding production rollout with confidence.

Some roles offer hybrid schedules for nearby candidates; otherwise the positions are remote with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or actuarial science with relevant experience
• Strong Python coding and data science deployment experience
• Hands-on experience with modern LLMs and agentic coding

Responsibilities

• Partner with pricing, delivery, and technology teams to speed up AI-enabled rollout.
• Build evaluations for AI and agentic applications with defined metrics and ground truth.
• Measure value and risk of AI applications in production, including efficiency and error reduction.
• Translate business needs into evaluation criteria for AI projects.
• Prototype and build evaluation tooling and, over time, AI applications that accelerate rollout.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Statistical modeling

Experiment design

Communication

Education

PhD in Statistics

Master's in scientific field

Bachelor's in scientific field

Tools

PyTorch

SQL

Git

Job description

AI has the potential to transform how insurers bring new products to market. Help us make sure it does. US Data Science (USDS) is building a new team that will use advanced AI to bring our pricing programs to market faster, and we are hiring three senior data scientists to help launch it. The team will build state-of-the-art evaluations for AI and agentic systems. Those evaluations tell us how much value the AI delivers, how accurate it is, and what the risk is when it gets something wrong, so we can move high-value applications into production with confidence. This is a new, highly visible team, and its work will shape how AI is used in the core pricing work of US Retail Markets (USRM). Each of the three roles reports into the Rollout AI team in USDS and has a dotted-line relationship with one of our lines of business: Property & Specialty, Auto, or Small Commercial. You will be the data science partner for your line of business while working as one team with the other two, sharing methods and tools. These roles will be filled at the Assistant Director or Director I level, depending on experience and skills.

Level of position offered will be based on skills and experience at manager discretion

This role may have in-office requirements depending on candidate location

Candidates who live within 50 miles of Boston, MA; Portsmouth, NH; Seattle, WA; Columbus, OH; or Plano, TX will follow a hybrid schedule, coming into the office two days per week. Otherwise, this role is remote with occasional travel.

Responsibilities

• Partner with your line of business's pricing, delivery, and technology teams to find where AI can speed up pricing program rollout.
• Build state-of-the-art evaluations for AI and agentic applications. Define accuracy metrics and ground truth, generate statistical tests and edge cases, and design experiments, including tests in production.
• Measure the value and risk of AI applications, including effort reduced, errors avoided, and time to market gained.
• Bring pricing expertise and product sense to AI projects, translating business needs into requirements and evaluation criteria.
• Prototype and build evaluation tooling and, over time, AI applications that accelerate rollout.

The ideal candidate will have

• Hands-on experience building and deploying insurance pricing models.
• Strong expertise in model evaluation, statistics, and experimental design.
• Strong coding skills (for example, Python) and a track record of building and shipping data science solutions.
• Strong, recent hands-on experience with modern LLMs, including but not limited to agentic coding, building LLMs into applications, and/or RAG.
• Experience evaluating generative AI or agentic systems is a plus.
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills, comfortable working across business, delivery, and technology teams.
• Resilient, curious, acts in service of the best answer, holds themselves to a high standard and wants to be around others who do the same.

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of predictive analytic techniques and statistical diagnostics of models.
• Advanced knowledge of predictive toolset; reflects as expert resource for tool development.
• Demonstrated ability to exchange ideas and convey complex information clearly and concisely.
• Ability to establish and build relationships within and outside the organization.
• Ability to give effective training and presentations to management and other groups.
• Ability to use results of analysis to persuade team, department management or senior management to a particular course of action.
• Broad knowledge of business drivers and market context.
• Has a value driven perspective with regard to understanding of work context and impact.
• Competencies typically acquired through a Ph.D. degree (in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Actuarial Science or other scientific field of study) and a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience, a Master`s degree (scientific field of study) and a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience or may be acquired through a Bachelor`s degree (scientific field of study) and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

About Us

Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive. We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embe