Assistant Professor of Business Analytics

About the Role

The School of Business and Leadership at the University of Puget Sound invites applications for a full-time tenure-line Assistant Professor position beginning Fall Term 2027. This is a dynamic time for the School, and we welcome innovative ideas and new areas of expertise.

Responsibilities

• Teach business courses in business analytics, including several sections as needed of an introductory course with a significant accounting module (which must be reflected in the course's title).
• Ensure all teaching includes projects that stimulate independent critical thinking, promote effective written and oral communication skills, facilitate experiential learning, and develop problem solving.
• Maintain a standard teaching assignment of three courses per semester.
• Engage in research, service, and university and departmental service.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or D.B.A. (ABD considered) in business, with a focus on business analytics, including data science, data analytics, and/or AI. Will consider Ph.D. in appropriate liberal arts disciplines related to business analytics, data science, data analytics, accounting, or AI.
• Commitment to undergraduate teaching and liberal arts education.

Application Deadline

To ensure full consideration, interested candidates are encouraged to submit application materials no later than October 15, 2026.

Compensation and Benefits

Rank: Assistant Professor. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Faculty salaries at the University of Puget Sound are based on a common salary scale based on experience. Assistant Professor salaries in 2026-2027 begin at $85,177 for an assistant professor without a terminal degree in their first year of full-time post-doctorate teaching through $97,917 annualized based on experience.

Puget Sound offers a generous benefits package. For more information, visit: Summary of 2026 Benefits for Faculty Members.pdf - Google Drive

Puget Sound has a well-established Shared Faculty Appointments Policy: https://www.pugetsound.edu/policies/faculty-policies/shared-faculty-appointments

About the School of Business and Leadership

The School of Business and Leadership provides students with an innovative business education that prepares them for success as leaders in a complex and dynamic global environment. The School fulfills its mission by:

• Teaching business fundamentals in a program strongly embedded in the Liberal Arts.
• Offering a core curriculum that focuses on management, marketing, finance, accounting, law, and ethics.
• Emphasizing critical thinking, effective written and oral communication, insightful problem solving, thorough case analysis, and sound research methods.
• Offering majors in business administration, international business, and the Business Leadership Program.
• Promoting off-campus experiences including internships, mentoring, international work and study abroad, field research and experiential learning.
• Striving for faculty excellence in teaching, advising, professional development, and University and community service.

About Puget Sound

The University of Puget Sound is located in Tacoma, Washington, a vibrant, diverse mid-sized urban port city. Within, and near, Tacoma there is ready access to urban, rural, and natural areas as well as opportunities to participate in a wide variety of cultural activities.

Puget Sound is a selective national liberal arts college drawing 2,600 students from 48 states and 20 countries. Puget Sound graduates include Rhodes and Fulbright scholars, notables in the arts and culture, entrepreneurs and elected officials, and leaders in business and finance locally and throughout the world. A low student-faculty ratio provides students with personal attention from faculty who have a strong commitment to teaching and offer 1,200 courses each year in more than 40 traditional and interdisciplinary fields, including graduate programs in occupational and physical therapy and in education. Puget Sound is the only nationally ranked independent undergraduate liberal arts college in Western Washington, and one of just five independent colleges in the Pacific Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa.

University Diversity Statement

We acknowledge the richness of commonalities and differences we share as a university community; the intrinsic worth of all who work and study here; that education is enhanced by the investigation of and the reflection upon multiple perspectives.

We aspire to create respect for and appreciation of all persons as a key characteristic of our campus community; to increase the diversity of all parts of our University community through commitment to diversity in our recruitment and retention efforts; to foster a spirit of openness to active engagement among all members of our campus community.

We act to achieve an environment that welcomes and supports diversity; to ensure full educational opportunity for all who teach and learn here; to prepare effectively citizen-leaders for a pluralistic world.

Puget Sound is committed to an environment that welcomes and supports diversity. We seek diversity of identity, thought, perspective, and background in our students, faculty, and staff. To learn more please visit: http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/diversity-at-puget-sound/

Required Documents

Applicants submitted without the required attachments will not be considered.

• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of Interest
• Teaching statement, including a list of business courses in business analytics, including data science, data analytics or AI, and special topics courses you would be eager to teach, and your relevant background.
• Teaching evaluations from the most recent four semesters of teaching, if applicable
• Diversity Statement (see prompt below)
• Unofficial transcripts (an official transcript will be required by the successful candidate)
• Contact Information for 3 References. You will be prompted to enter the contact information for three (3) reference providers. The system will automatically email these reference providers to request a letter.

Note: In the online application system, please submit curriculum vitae when prompted to submit resume. Additional documents can be attached within the application.

Applicant's Diversity Statement

As a department and university, we are strongly committed to creating an inclusive and effective teaching, learning, and working environment for all. In their diversity statement, applicants should reflect on how they will advance the values articulated in the University Diversity Statement in all aspects of their future work as faculty and members of the university community.

Visa Sponsorship Note

Given the current Executive Order and the $100,000 petition fee for new H-1b visas, at the moment sponsoring a new H-1b is cost-prohibitive to us. Therefore, unless the executive order is rescinded or blocked by the courts, we are unable to commit to new H visa sponsorship at this time. Applicants with questions about visa sponsorship are encouraged to reach out to Human Resources.