Data Scientist, Booking.com
Experimentation Consulting & Research
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Leading travel accommodation and experiences marketplace
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Leading travel accommodation and experiences marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape the future of travel through cutting edge technology, to make it easier for everyone to enjoy amazing experiences wherever they go.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working with dynamic project setup, multiple teams and stakeholders to align expectations and collaboration. Turning open-ended questions into clear milestones and agreed deliverables
- Passionate in driving innovation for real applications with curious, humble and can-do attitudes
- Proven ability to unpack real world causal questions, design modeling or experimentation solutions, and provide clear and actionable business recommendations with real influence
- Experience to research and compare new methods and validate feasibility with real data. Clearly explain the reasoning behind technical choices, and open to peer review and discussions
- Able to zoom in and out in problem solving. Willing to dig deep for exploration, and summarize reusable learnings and methodologies for scalable exploitation
- Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences. Able to discuss complex technical problems in an accessible, business-friendly manner at all phases of the project
- Proficient in handling large amounts of data and using causal model packages with Python, Snowpark, or R. Familiar with using causal packages. Produce well structured, readable and reproducible high quality code
What the job involves
- As a Data Scientist in the Consulting & Research Team, you will be in the center of experimentation and causal research in Booking.com, embarking the journey to empower diverse high-profile business decisions through direct contact with stakeholders and innovating out-of-box causal solutions
- This role offers a unique opportunity to deep dive into the company’s most persistent and impactful challenges in decision making, and grow your expertise in a supportive environment with internal and external cutting-edge causal revolution
- You will play a key role to discover causal relationships in a wide variety of travel products and customers, challenge hidden assumptions and validate the robustness of conclusions to enable confident decisions at scale with real business actions
- Responsible for fully owning the design and delivery of causal solutions based on business requirements, from idea-generation, validation, implementation to stakeholder communication
- Deliver customer value with the right solutions
- Keep a sharp eye on both the strengths and limitations of applied methodologies in real use cases
- Proactively explore and research advanced statistical and causal techniques suitable for the business applications, and guide junior members as a force multiplier
- Identify and manage stakeholders independently
- Autonomously translate business challenges into proper data stories and solutions
- Capable of communicating complex solutions to business stakeholders and craft peers beyond the team’s scope with in-time updates, clear visualization, accessible documentation and effective verbal language
- Responsible for interpreting quantitative experiments and causal models to objectively guide key business decisions
- Grow technical competency and spot opportunities to adopt more efficient approaches
- Break down complex problems into tangible milestones to drive continuous improvements and actionable outcomes on product or strategy
- Identify trends and behaviors from data to uncover hidden causal insights across business domains
- Unlock the value of causal inference by bringing together end-to-end solutions
- Learn to incorporate scalability, reproducibility and long-term orientation in the work
- Embed causal techniques into the bigger picture for business takeaways and recommendations
Our take
Booking.com has established itself as a leading digital travel company. The company reaps the benefits of its status in the market and is currently in a stronger position than its up-and-coming competitors such as Expedia, Trivago and Trip.com. Airbnb represents the sharing economy and acts as a disruptive force in this market but still has ways to go to compete with Booking.com.
In recent years, there has been considerable growth in the number of travellers wishing to travel more sustainably. And Booking.com is well positioned to attract these consumers, having introduced a Travel Sustainable badge on their platform which over 100,000 properties have achieved for their sustainability efforts.
The company was originally founded with a core focus on hotels, and the platform now offers more than 31M accommodation listings. It has also expanded into different services, including flights, car rentals, and attractions.
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Company benefits
- Health insurance
- Free access to Headspace for you and your loved ones
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Meditation and Breastfeeding rooms at the office
- Booking Cares - 2 days per year to volunteer and learn
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Pension plan
- Annual paid time off
- Parental leave - 22 weeks
- Grandparent leave - 10 days
- Care leave - 10 days
- Bereavement leave - up to 4 weeks
- Anniversary leave
- Working from Home Furniture and Ergonomic Support
- Working from Abroad - up to 20 days per year
- Discounts & Wallet credits to spend on our products
- Upgrade to Booking.com Genius Level 3
- Friends & Family Booking.com discount vouchers
- Free access to online learning platforms
- Development and mentorship programs to support career growth
- Access to trainings and workshops
- Team development opportunities
- Local discount programs
- Game rooms in offices
- On-site meals, coffee and snacks including vegan options
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Glenn Fogel
(CEO)Previously Vice President at Morgan Stanley. They joined Booking Holdings in 2000 and have held several high profile and executive positions since. They are currently the President and CEO
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