Senior Manager at United Airlines

Compensation

$140,600 – $183,108/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Aug 25, 2026

Description

United Airlines is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a team of data analysts and drive quantitative insights to optimize business decisions within their Technical Operations department. The role involves managing analytics portfolios, designing KPIs, executing data-driven solutions, and translating complex analysis into actionable strategies. This hybrid role is based in Chicago, IL.

Required Skills

Data Science
Analytics
Exploratory Data Analysis
Feature Engineering
Clustering
Regression Analysis
Tree Methods
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing
Simulation
Optimization
Machine Learning Methods
Python
R
SQL
Spotfire
Tableau
ggplot2
Generative AI Tools
Critical Thinking
Relationship Management
Business Development

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or related work experience.
Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of experience in data science and/or analytics
2+ years of experience in a leadership/supervisory role
Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in a quantitative field like Math, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering and/or MBA or related work experience.
Airline experience or knowledge of airline operations.
Familiarity with aircraft systems and/or maintenance.
Lean Six Sigma Certification.
Understanding of experimental design principles.
Background with cloud computing and big data platforms - particularly PySpark and/or Hadoop, Databricks, Palantir or similar ecosystems.