HR VP Data Scientist/Statistician

Job Description
We are HR Data and Analytics, a centralized global team responsible for all aspects of workforce data strategy, analytics, reporting, data governance, and AI/ML solutions. We have a vision to help make individuals, teams, and businesses at JPMC among the most engaged and productive in the world. Our mission is to create workforce insights that allow leaders to make evidence-based people decisions that help drive measurable business outcomes.
As a VP Data Scientist/Statistician in our HR Data & Analytics team, you are not only strong in both quantitative skills and business acumen, but also a great collaborator with your team members and internal clients. You translate abstract business asks to analysis tasks or agenda, conduct analysis, and communicate results with relevant parties. You are a valuable contributor to our intellectual capital - Accumulate institutional knowledge about our workforce, explore and develop different tools and analysis methods in the context of HR, and create relevant templates or automation process to drive synergy across HR analytics work. Last but not least, you embrace a mentoring mentality in developing junior team members through collaboration in project/product work.
Job Responsibilities:

1. Analytics and Modeling:
   • Conduct analysis based on past and current HR and business data to generate relevant, actionable insights that answer the question of "so-what," and support leadership in making evidence-based decisions.
   • Design and implement relevant analytics, explanatory models, and, if appropriate, predictive models, including exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, , data quality checks, and model performance evaluation.
2. Solution Delivery:
   • Manage the design, build, and delivery of analytical solutions with a pragmatic approach in evaluating multiple solutions.
   • Develop new analysis ideas based on observations in the existing book of work and data assets.
3. Communication, Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing:
   • Capture and understand end-user requirements, translate them into customized analytical solutions, and communicate results via reports, presentations, and insightful visualizations.
   • Collaborate with team members to deliver analysis results to business leaders.
   • Collaborate with data sourcing and technology teams for analysis, development, and production deployment.
4. Compliance:
   • Adhere to relevant regulatory, compliance, and control policies and procedure. Follow best practices when handling proprietary and sensitive data.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

1. Experience and Education:
   • 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in a related social science, business, or quantitative analysis discipline (e.g., Economics, Business, IO Psychology, Statistics, Business Analytics, Computer Science), or 3+ years with a higher degree, and experience in industry or at a top management consulting firm.
2. Domain Knowledge:
   • Experience in Human Resources for Financial Services, or allied areas, including people analytics, labor market research, finance, economics, consumer/user behavior, or the financial services industry.
3. Technical Skills:
   • Proficiency in quantitative analysis and statistical data modeling, and associated software (e.g., Python and its associated open source libraries, R, SPSS), to implement classical statistical techniques such as hypothesis testing, multiple regression, multivariate analysis, for regression analysis, as well as supervised and unsupervised algorithms for machine learning, and model performance evaluation.
   • Experience with data wrangling tools (e.g., SQL, Alteryx) and working with large datasets (millions of records) for data exploration and analysis.
   • Familiarity with modern techniques for natural language processing, including the use of contextualized embeddings and pretrained language models, for text classification, summarization, and named entity recognition.
   • Proficiency with reporting and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI) and advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, Analysis ToolPak).
4. Communication and Presentation:
   • Ability to articulate data insights in a business context through customized reports, visualizations, and presentations, and discuss complex issues in easy-to-understand ways.
5. Consulting and Project Execution:
   • Experience in consulting, client engagement, or technical project execution with a focus on data and analytics solution delivery.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

1. Experience with project planning and execution, such as agile practices, dependency planning, and tools like JIRA; pragmatic problem solving across multiple types of issues in project work.
2. Experience managing ambiguity and stakeholder relationships across multiple business functions.
3. Experience with cloud services and data analytics frameworks (e.g., AWS, SageMaker, Starburst/Trino, Databricks/Spark).

About Us
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
Human Resources plays a critical role in driving the employee experience, shaping the firm's culture and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are a strategic partner to the business - working with leaders across the firm to hire, develop and retain the best people and help meet business goals. Together, we foster a work environment in which our people are supported, feel like they belong and are able to make an impact through their work. We develop and deliver a suite of products and services that help make JPMorgan Chase an employer of choice and drive our business forward.