** Location: Boston area preferred however, may consider a well qualified candidate in a remote based capacity
Who we are:
Solaria Labs is Liberty Mutual’s Enterprise Incubator. We partner with teams from across Liberty to stay on the forefront of disruption, incubating new products, services, and experiences to better serve our customers, agents, and partners today and in the future. Areas of focus include digital ubiquity, climate change, sustainability, new transportation models, insurance value chain disruption, and risk services. Current examples of programs aligned to these focus areas include digital-first insurance platforms for personal and business lines, machine learning powered customer experiences for usage based motor insurance, and new risk services like real-time weather alerting to help our customers stay safe and protect the things they care about most.
Why you may enjoy working at Solaria:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are woven into the fabric of many of our incubation programs, with great potential to create more value for our customers and strengthen our competitive advantage. As Head of Solaria Applied Science, you will lead the team that applies AI/ML to create disruptive new capabilities for Liberty Mutual. This will require you to build a deep understanding of the business, create strong partnerships with other teams, understand how AI/ML can be applied to differentiate our products, develop proofs of concept with your team, and guide the organization to prioritize highest value features. Successful candidates will have a deep understanding of ML techniques and the ability to translate those techniques into business impact. Examples include identifying property features from Aerial Imagery using computer vision, classifying businesses from documents using natural language processing, and optimizing the performance of our digital insurance offerings.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Manage and mentor a multi-disciplinary team of ten or more data scientists, including managers, interns, co-ops, and other staff on rotating assignment
- Partner with teams across Liberty Mutual to identify opportunities to differentiate our products or improve our operations
- Lead the team to design and deploy AI/ML models using generative AI, computer vision, and natural language processing
- Work with product and engineering teams to implement your solutions within internal and customer facing capabilities
- Ensure the highest standard of technical excellence for all data science efforts in the lab, adopting best practices from other organizations and vetting new technologies or frameworks as appropriate
- Translate and champion ML capabilities for non-technical audiences, both partners and senior executives, to help the organization prioritize
- As part of the Solaria Labs leadership team, help define and execute the Labs strategy to drive new product development and an innovation culture in Liberty
- Coordinate Solaria’s applied science IP strategy, determining what the organization should focus on to protect our business. This also includes educating data scientists on the importance of IP and helping them choose whether to patent or publish their work
- Contribute to the data science professional community at Liberty, helping to guide programs and processes that improve technical excellence, engagement, and diversity