Senior Manager - Customer Analytics (Hybrid)

Senior Manager - Customer Analytics (Hybrid)

Location Chicago, Illinois, United StatesCategory CorporateJob IdWHQ00026901Procurement / Strategic Sourcing / PurchasingJob TypeFull-TimePosted Date 10/05/2026

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Description

At United, we care about our customers. To be the best airline in aviation history, we need to deliver the best service to our customers. And it takes a whole team of dedicated customer-focused advocates to make it happen! From our Contact Center to customer analytics, insights, innovation, and everything in between, the Customer Experience team delivers outstanding service and helps us to run a more customer-centric and dependable airline.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager on the Customer Insights & Analytics team, you play a critical role in making United Airlines the "airline of choice" for more customers. We use a mixture of operational data and customer feedback to analyze performance and identify/prioritize opportunities to improve the customer experience across the full travel journey. Our team is the central insights engine that enables stakeholders from across the enterprise to make informed decisions on behalf of our customers.

This leadership role is an excellent opportunity to influence strategy and investment, and to see your insights put into action (not just a report). There is visibility and influence up to the highest levels of the company.

We are seeking curious, driven, and analytics-oriented individuals who excel and influence others through research, analysis, insights, and storytelling. A successful candidate will need to be able to partner with a wide variety of stakeholders (e.g. Digital Technology, Airport Operations, Flight Shopping, Marketing & Product Development) to understand their business and learning objectives. Pursuing those learnings objectives, we use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to produce actionable insights.

This leader should be comfortable, working with large/mixed datasets to extract insights, distilling our findings into recommendations for stakeholders, and packaging it all into a polished and cohesive story for senior executives. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities, as well as strong business acumen and storytelling/presentation skills.

This is a Chicago-based, hybrid role requiring 2-3 days in office weekly.

Function as customer insights advocate and represent the customer’s voice in business decisions.

Champion insights across all levels of the organization.

Keep abreast of internal/external trends, provide leadership, research, analytics, business insight and be a strong influencer to drive customer experience improvements.

Manage day-to-day operation of customer insights functions including identifying opportunities based on trend results and collaborating with stakeholders to drive actions.

Help scope, structure, and execute projects. Manage deliverable timelines and stakeholder expectations.

Effectively manage internal partnerships and external vendor relationships.

Coach, counsel, and motivate the team to set and achieve individual and team goals as well as individual career development plans.

Identify opportunities to enhance customer insights and drive productivity and efficiency with our team. Propose new questions or ideas, explore new data sources, identify new analyses, research methodologies or techniques.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelor's degree in Math, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics or similar

5+ years experience in research or analytical role (qualitative research, analysis, information science, data visualization, etc.

Demonstrated experience with data from customer surveys, and customer experience metrics (e.g. NPS, CSAT)

Analytical aptitude including ability to develop sound insights across multiple data sources.

Experience to preparing executive level presentations

Ability to work with all levels of leadership

Initiative, self-motivation and a strong sense of urgency are essential

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

Master's degree

2+ years of experience leading an analytics team

2+ years of experience working in airline industry

Experience with visualization tools preferred

Experience with project management tools (e.g., Miro, Jira, Confluence, etc.)

Expertise with quantitative analysis tools and querying relational databases (SQL, R, Python)

The base pay range for this role is $127,870.00 to $166,492.00.

The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or similar with 5+ years in research or analytical roles.
• Experience with customer survey data, customer experience metrics, and executive-level presentations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; ability to work with all leadership levels; U.S. work authorization required.