Director of Data Science, Expedia Group
Channel Analytics
Online travel shopping company
Be an early applicant
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's, Master’s, PhD; Mathematics, Science, Statistics, Economics degree; or equivalent related professional experience is applicable
- 10+ years experience in a similar analytical role, with at least 4 years in a leadership role
- Excellent leadership and team management skills, with a track record of driving performance in a cross-functional environment
- Strong SQL skills; demonstrated experience of using R/PySpark to structure, transform and visualize big data, and a willingness to learn new frameworks and languages required for the task
- Display a true passion for data and analytics as well as possessing a strong commercial awareness
- Develops and drives significant and sustained change and performance improvement from data driven insights in a number of different areas or contexts
- Experience partnering with senior management, including VPs/SVPs and collaborating with other teams (eg. Product, Engineering, Strategy etc) to deliver projects
- Experience of developing, and delivering, presentations that help people understand the insight from sophisticated analytics
- Ability to perform in a high-pressure, dynamic environment and be comfortable with a high level of ambiguity
- Strong knowledge of multi-channel marketing, digital advertising, and e-commerce platforms
What the job involves
- Lead and mentor a team of data scientists: Provide guidance and support for career growth, skill development, and team cohesion
- Ensure that projects are scoped appropriately, timelines are met, and methodologies are sound
- Establish and enforce data science methodologies, ensuring high standards for data analysis, modeling and reporting
- Foster an environment where creative problem-solving and innovative approaches to data analysis are encouraged
- Use creativity and commercial acumen to translate business problems into structured analytical questions, and choose the most appropriate methodologies to answer these questions
- Own the relationships with our Marketing stakeholders, and align data science initiatives with organizational goals
- Influence partners and senior leaders through communicating across various levels of the organization using clear and compelling storytelling and presentations
- We are looking for an experienced Director Data Science to lead a team of Channel Data Scientists
- In your role you will provide leadership and technical expertise to enhance our marketing channel strategy and competitiveness, optimize our investments and improve profitability
- You will work with external partners to enhance marketing channel measurement
- Working with senior stakeholders across Marketing Team to ensure the alignment of analytics with business goals to drive overall growth
- The successful individual will be able to build and manage a high performing team, solve challenging business problems by using a wide array of data science methods, techniques, and tools
- Translate technical insights into actionable business decisions and communicate them in a clear and compelling way
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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
Articles
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.
Share this job
View 42 more jobs at Expedia Group