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Role Description

Kick-start your career with Mercury Ignite: Graduate Program in Growth Data Science and Data Governance, a 12-month structured journey that offers hands-on experience across real business projects and rotations within the Enterprise Data Science organization at Mercury Insurance.

We are seeking curious, passionate, and hard-working graduates from data science, computer science, data analytics, business analytics, statistics, and machine learning academic fields to participate in our remote graduate program. In this program, you will have two, six-month rotations focused on the below two functions:

• Growth Data Science: Focuses on building growth data science expertise, driving experimentation, customer insights, and data-driven growth strategies through impactful analytics and AI solutions.
• Data Governance: Focuses on building expertise in modern data governance by improving data quality monitoring, metadata documentation and enrichment in the Data Catalog, supporting Master Data Management (MDM), and supporting data classification to ensure responsible data access and privacy compliance, while enabling trusted, secure, and scalable data-driven decision making.

Job Function:

• Apply statistical analysis and experimentation to drive customer growth, optimization, and data information business decisions.
• Develop, clean, and analyze datasets using tools like SQL, Python, or R to generate actionable insights.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business problems into data-driven solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency through data validation, quality monitoring, documentation, and adherence to data governance standards.
• Support data governance initiatives including master data management, metadata documentation and enrichment in the Data Catalog, and data classification to enable responsible data access, privacy compliance, and trusted data assets.
• Leverage AI and machine learning techniques to enhance predictive insights, automate processes, and responsibly scale data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• Be legally eligible to work in the U.S.
• Recently completed a bachelor's or both bachelor's and master's degree in an information technology (computer science, Electrical engineering, Mathematics and Data science) field.
• Able to provide a cumulative GPA, as reported by your school. Minimum 3.0 GPA required, 3.5 or higher GPA preferred.
• Graduation date on or after November 2025 but no later than June 2026.
• Planning to seek full-time employment by June 2026.

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to independently learn and make an impact within a team environment.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of the following: Java, JavaScript, Python.
• Good understanding of different data structures and algorithms.
• Preferred but not required: experience with AI, SQL, and Git/GitHub/GitLab.
• Required job duties are essentially sedentary in nature, consisting of occasional walking, standing, lifting, and/or carrying ten pounds maximum.

Benefits

• Entry-level role with real-world experience in areas of AI, Data, and Automation.
• Full-time opportunity to gain hands-on experience with programs and projects.
• Assigned buddy to support with team assimilation.
• Earn a competitive salary with benefits.

Company Description

At Mercury, we have been guided by our purpose to help people reduce risk and overcome unexpected events for more than 60 years. We are one team with a common goal to help others. Everyone needs insurance and we can’t imagine a world without it.

Our team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life.

We care about our people, and we mean it. We reward our talented professionals with a competitive salary, bonus potential, and a variety of benefits to help our team members reach their health, retirement, and professional goals.