Data Scientist, Expedia Group
Product Analytics
Online travel shopping company
Open for applications
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Are you excited by the opportunity to pioneer the future of travel?
- Do you want to redefine the way people plan, search for, and book their travel?
- If you are a self-starter and have shown success in using analytics to drive innovation and user engagement, this position is for you!
- Excellent logical thinking, a very strong background (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree) in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, data science or similar and 5+ years of experience in industry or equivalent
- Expert with Python, Scala or R, or any other major machine learning programming language
- Expert in statistical analysis and experimentation, pre-post analysis, segmentation, optimization techniques and interpretation of machine learning models such as propensity modelling and forecasting techniques
- High performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior data scientists, interfaces consistently with product & tech leaders, and leads complex and vaguely defined projects
- Creative and analytical in thinking with a love for data, picking analytically valid approaches favouring iterative delivery that solves for the objective, not the ask
- Ability to manage projects with different functions (product, strategy, engineering, etc.), prioritize among conflicting demands and be comfortable with ambiguity
- Excellent verbal, written and data visualization skills
What the job involves
- A high performing individual contributor who consistently applies - and sometimes enhances - the analytics capabilities, principles and playbooks to solve complex business issues and opportunities. Operates largely independently and mentors more junior colleagues
- At Expedia Group, we believe that travel brings the world together, and we are passionate about the endless possibilities
- We are seeking an experienced Product Analyst to join our Product Analytics & Experimentation Team to partner with product managers and focus on user experience optimization
- As a Data Scientist III, you will support critical business decisions throughout the product development lifecycle that improve the user experience for millions of travelers
- Your role will involve uncovering customer friction points, opportunity sizing, identifying new success measures, hypothesis generation and prioritization, experimentation design or other measurement frameworks, impartial analysis, and recommendations
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, ML programming, data visualization with a goal of improving customer experience
- Own end to end process in designing and running complex experiments (A/B tests, Pre-Post, Interleaving), proactively see opportunities and recommend new features for test and learn
- Collaborate across the analytics community to define how we embed new metrics and methodologies into our experimentation culture
- Lead key strategic projects within the shopping experience to support goal setting, opportunity sizing, product performance review and ultimately EG product strategy
- Work with multiple stakeholders, manage product analytics projects, and operate within a community of analysts, sharing findings, wins and methodologies
- As one of the most senior individual contributors in the team, raise the bar in prescriptive and predictive insights across product analytics, leading by examples and coaching more junior analysts
- Influence action and results, through clear writing, in an accessible way for a wide audience. Structure presentations around a clear and concise narrative, present clearly and engagingly, anticipating questions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Expedia is an online travel agency. They enable users to access a wide range of services including airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents. Its primary web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, and Egencia.com.
Between 2021 and 2022, Expedia has been selling and merging a list of its sub-brands in a bid to simplify its operations, including Egencia and Classic Vacations. Due to plummeting share prices, mostly in the case of its sub-brands, Expedia has been leveraging its subsidiaries' customer base and merging them into the company’s core brand. Contrasting this move, Expedia has also been partnering with tech start-ups in a bid to make travel more accessible to underserved groups. Becoming Rentable, a travel company for the disabled is one of 12 startups that are part of Expedia Group’s new Open World Accelerator Programme.
What this indicates is Expedia’s shift from buying other travel companies and a move towards enhancing the experience of its preexisting customer base. This move is aiding in a long-term plan for greater long-term traveler loyalty, utilizing Expedia’s vast amounts of data, not just from reviews, but from check-in, cleanliness, communication, cancelations, etc to inform how guests experience a property.
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Company
Company benefits
- Leisure Travel Reimbursement
- Travel Discounts
- Family & Friends Discount
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Global Service Awards
- Business Travel Medical Insurance
- Matching Gifts
- Expert Medical Opinion
- New Parent Benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Private Health Insurance
Company values
- Force Simplicity
- Include Consciously
- Trust Each Other
- Go Get What's Next
- Choose Fearlessly
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Peter M. Kern
(CEO, not founder)Has been a director of Expedia Group since completion of the IAC/Expedia Group Spin-Off and has served as Vice Chairman of Expedia Group since June 2018. Previously CEO of Tribune Media and Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a private equity firm.
People progressing
Joined as Manager - Strategic Initiatives and has been promoted multiple times to Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives after 1 year, to Director - Strategic Initiatives also after 1 year, and again to Senior Director - Strategy & Supply after 2 years. Now works as the Vice President of the Travel Agent Affiliate Program.
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