USAA

Lead Decision Science Analyst – P&C Marketing Measurement, Optimization

USAA

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San AntonioArizonaColoradoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $143,320 - $257,970 per year

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About the role

  • Leverages expert business, analytical and technical knowledge to lead discussions with cross functional teams to understand and collaborate highly complex business objectives and influence solution strategies.
  • Applies advanced analytical techniques to solve business problems that are typically large scale with significant impact to current and/or future business strategy.
  • Organizes and oversees the development of requirements/resources necessary to meet established objectives.
  • Applies innovative and scientific/quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make recommendations to answer the business objective and drive the appropriate change.
  • Translates recommendation into communication materials to effectively present to all levels of management.
  • Incorporates visualization techniques to support the relevant points of the analysis and ease the understanding for less technical audiences.
  • Identifies and gathers the relevant and quality data sources required to fully answer and address the problem for the recommended strategy through testing or exploratory data analysis (EDA).
  • Integrates/transforms disparate data sources and determines the appropriate data hygiene techniques to apply.
  • Thoroughly documents assumptions, methodology, validation and testing to facilitate peer reviews and compliance requirements.
  • Monitors, understands and adopts emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.
  • Succinctly delivers complex analysis/findings in a manner that conveys understanding, influences senior executives, garners support for recommendations, drives business decisions, and influences business strategy.
  • Provides subject matter expertise in operationalizing recommendations.
  • Researches and pursues the latest and/or industry leading practices in data and analytics, (Ex: Cloud, Data Mining, Python, Neural Networks, Sensor data, IoT, Streaming/NRT data) to advance the overall DSA community knowledge.
  • Identifies opportunities to continue to learn in the data and analytics space, whether informal (E.g., Coursera, Udemy, Kaggle, Code Up, etc.) or formal (E.g. Certifications or advanced coursework).
  • Innovates to create new and emerging data sets, and incorporation (data wrangling, data munging) into new insights.
  • Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science or other quantitative discipline is required; OR 4 years of related statistics, mathematics or quantitative analytics or related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • Extensive knowledge of the Marketing Measurement stack - Attribution, MMM, Incrementality Testing - and how they work together
  • Proven track record of delivering data driven insights to drive business growth
  • Experience leading or mentoring team members and driving projects from end-to-end
  • Expertise in leading and developing weekly business performance reviews and/or marketing funnel diagnosis at scale
  • Prior role(s) in a Property & Casualty Insurance organization.
Benefits
  • comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
  • 401(k)
  • pension
  • life insurance
  • parental benefits
  • adoption assistance
  • paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
  • various wellness programs
  • career path planning and continuing education
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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