Head of People Analytics & Data

About the role

The Head of People Analytics & Data is a Senior Vice President role at U.S. Bank. This role is responsible for leading U.S. Bank’s workforce intelligence capability, transforming data into actionable insights that drive business decisions, workforce strategy, and organizational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the end-to-end people analytics strategy aligned to HR & Community and business priorities.
• Deliver actionable insights that inform workforce, talent, and business decisions.
• Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives for executive leaders.
• Advance analytics capabilities from descriptive reporting to predictive and forward-looking insights.
• Develop scenario modeling and forecasting capabilities to anticipate future workforce needs.
• Define and execute the HR&C data strategy to support scalable analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.
• Ensure data structures, quality, and accessibility support advanced analytics and AI adoption.
• Partner with product and technology teams to enable data-driven and AI-enabled HR&C solutions.
• Advance the organization’s readiness for AI through strong data foundations and scalable design.
• Represent the HR&C domain in enterprise data governance, ensuring alignment with data standards and controls.
• Establish clear ownership of workforce data definitions, quality, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and ethical standards in all data and analytics activities.
• Promote responsible and ethical use of employee data across HR&C.
• Partner with HR&C Product teams to embed insights into employee-facing solutions and experiences.
• Enable scalable delivery of insights through dashboards, tools, and data products.
• Drive adoption of analytics through intuitive, accessible outputs.
• Lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team spanning analytics, data strategy, and research.
• Build talent in advanced analytics, data science, and data strategy.
• Create a culture of performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven senior leadership ability in people analytics, workforce strategy, data, or related fields.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise analytics strategy and influence senior executives.
• Deep expertise in people analytics, workforce planning, and data governance.
• Strong understanding of data management, data quality, and privacy considerations.
• Experience building scalable analytics solutions and data-driven capabilities.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect data insights to business outcomes.

Location Expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

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
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Pay Range

$193,035.00 - $227,100.00