Data Scientist, Expedia Group
Product Analytics
$118-205.5k
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience.
Online travel shopping company
Job no longer available
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$118-205.5k
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience.
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master’s or PhD degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics degree or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
- A high performing individual contributor who consistently applies and enhances the analytics capabilities, principles, and playbooks to solve complex business issues and opportunities
- Passionate for logical problem solving and intellectual challenges; curious by nature with an enthusiasm for making an impact; sharp focus on results and strong attention to detail
- Operates independently with strong sense of ownership, be able to deal with ambiguity and apply structured way to frame and approach problems
- Strong growth mindset, great team player, and be able to mentor junior data scientists
- Be resourceful and connect the dots intuitively; bias to action is strongly preferred
- Able to communicate the results of sophisticated analyses in a clear and effective manner (in both spoken and written)
- Expert with large data sets, SQL (or SQL equivalent), and big data tools / languages (Hadoop, Hive, Spark)
- Understanding of statistics and hypothesis testing (ex. Confidence Interval, Regressions, Time Series, Clustering, Factor Analysis), experience in modeling selection, building and evaluation
- Proficient in statistics, including randomized tests design and quasi-experimental design
- Proficient in building data visualizations (Tableau, Looker, etc.)
- Experience with Python, Scala, R, or other similar coding language
- Experience with web analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics a plus
What the job involves
- You will apply a range of common statistical / analytics methods in data modeling, quantitative analysis, experiment design, and data visualization with a religious focus on improving travelers’ product experience, steward Expedia product with actionable insights
- You will own measurement framework development for traveler engagement, retention, and loyalty-driving products; provide support to product team on goal setting, performance diagnosis, and dashboard development
- You will proactively identify key travelers’ problem statement, apply analytically sound approaches, and recommend the best solution with focus on driving actionable insights to improve Expedia travelers’ engagement and retention
- You will build practical & fundamental ML models based on detailed understanding of business requirements (including general approach, choice of algorithm and data sources) to fuel Expedia personalization product roadmap
- You will collaborate with peer data science team to refine and improve engagement driven test methodology, competitive analysis, and measurement best practices
- You will partner closely with technical and non-technical teams, to answer complex business and user behavior questions, with a focus on meaningful insights
- Proactively engage with multiple departments across the organization, including Product, Strategy, Engineering, and Finance, to tackle problems and identify trends and opportunities
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
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
- 401K Plan
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
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.
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