U.S. Bank

Director of Strategic Analytics

U.S. Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ColumbusIllinoisMinnesotaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $164,390 - $193,400 per year

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About the role

  • Set the strategic direction for advanced analytics within EFCC, with an emphasis on AI, machine learning, and scalable cloud architectures.
  • Lead and develop a high-performing analytics team spanning emerging risk analytics, quantitative modeling, and data intelligence.
  • Translate regulatory expectations, emerging typologies, and business needs into analytically sound, defensible solutions.
  • Oversee development and enhancement of customer- and account-level risk models, anomaly detection, and typology-driven analytics.
  • Expand use of machine-learning frameworks and AI-enabled tooling (e.g., clustering, relationship intelligence, natural-language analysis) to surface risk not fully covered by traditional monitoring.
  • Guide iterative model improvement using new data sources, feedback loops from investigations, and performance metrics.
  • Remain hands-on as needed to unblock team members, prototype solutions, and credibly challenge analytical assumptions.
  • Assist in driving the transition from legacy statistical tooling toward open-source and cloud-ready solutions, improving flexibility and speed to insight.
  • Support development of open-source equivalents for existing analytics and reporting capabilities to enable future cloud adoption.
  • Coordinate rapid-response analytics for emerging financial crime risks, integrating subpoena data, human intelligence, transaction data, and external insights.
  • Lead analytics supporting new and evolving typologies (e.g., novel fraud schemes, sanctions evasion, trafficking-related activity).
  • Maintain strong feedback cycles with investigators and risk partners to refine coverage and prioritize effort.
  • Ensure clear, consistent documentation across analytics lifecycles, including model design, assumptions, validation artifacts, monitoring reports, and procedures.
  • Communicate complex analytical concepts clearly to executive leadership, regulators, auditors, and cross-functional partners.
  • Represent Strategic Analytics in regulatory exams, internal reviews, and enterprise-level discussions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MS/PhD) strongly preferred.
  • 9+ years of experience in advanced analytics, quantitative modeling, or data science within financial services or regulated environments.
  • 5+ years of experience leading analytics or quantitative teams.
  • Strong grounding in statistical modeling, machine learning, and model performance evaluation.
  • Experience working with open-source analytics stacks (e.g., Python-based ecosystems) and designing analytics for cloud or cloud-adjacent environments.
  • Ability to integrate structured and unstructured data, including transaction data and narrative-based intelligence.
  • Deep understanding of financial crime risk, emerging typologies, and risk-based monitoring approaches.
  • Strong familiarity with regulatory expectations, supervisory guidance, and model governance standards.
  • Experience supporting regulatory exams and translating analytics into examiner-ready narratives.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels.
  • Proven success influencing across teams without direct authority.
  • Clear, confident communicator with executive presence and strong written skills.
Benefits
  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Basic term and optional term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
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Hard Skills & Tools
advanced analyticsquantitative modelingdata sciencestatistical modelingmachine learningmodel performance evaluationanomaly detectionnatural-language analysisopen-source analyticscloud architectures
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstrategic thinkinginfluencingteam developmentproblem-solvingdocumentationfeedback managementexecutive presenceclear writing