Four years of top reviews, a new manager, then a PIP and a security escort
A data science senior manager says he spent four years earning strong reviews at Vanguard - then got a new boss in January 2025 and was out of a job by September.
The worker filed a federal lawsuit against the Vanguard Group on September 28, 2026, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging race, national origin, and age discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
According to the complaint, the worker - who is Black, of Kenyan national origin, and was 41 at the time of his firing - joined Vanguard in 2021 as a senior manager in data science. For his first four years, the filing states, he supervised a team of ten to fifteen people, received consistently strong annual appraisals from two senior directors who outranked his eventual replacement supervisor, and earned significant salary increases and bonuses every year.
That changed in January 2025, the complaint alleges, when a new manager took over.
The filing alleges the new manager's treatment was "noticeably less favorable" than what the worker's non-Black, non-Kenyan, and younger colleagues received. Within months, the complaint states, the worker was pulled into regular coaching sessions and marked "off track" on his first mid-year review under the new supervisor - despite every one of his direct reports being rated "on track."
During that mid-year review, the complaint alleges, the manager told the worker he...
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