Data Scientist, Expedia Group
Analytics
Online travel shopping company
Job no longer available
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- You have a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics or Economics, or equivalent related professional experience
- You have experience with SQL, with experience in Python / PySpark / R to structure, transform and visualize big data being a plus
- Knowledge of statistics and modelling techniques
- Excellent analytical problem-solving skills and can-do attitude
- Ability to communicate sophisticated concepts concisely and clearly
- Display strong domain knowledge, business acumen and critical reasoning skills
What the job involves
- The TEaL (Traveler Engagement and Loyalty) Analytics team sits within the Traveler & Marketing Analytics team, working on tackling sophisticated analytical and business problems with a focus on statistics and data analytics.
- In this role, your keen interest in marketing analytics will help us solve tough problems and influence positive change
- You will be responsible for devising, developing and maintaining methods and tools to help optimize our marketing campaigns and capital allocation process.
- This could involve designing and analyzing A/B tests, developing testing methodologies to gather insight from a marketing test, or using machine learning methods to help predict returns where testing is not possible
- You will work closely with other highly-skilled data scientists across Expedia Group, partnering with our digital marketing teams, as well as colleagues across Finance and Product
- As an Individual Contributor you will partner closely with your stakeholders and contribute to the improvement of many different areas within CRM including: the set-up and analysis of A/B tests, exploratory deep dives into traveler behavior, and devising novel frameworks and methods to test when traditional methods are not possible.
- You will also have the opportunity to produce and deliver presentations to influence the thinking of senior leadership in the TEaL organization
- Apply your knowledge of SQL, Python or R on a daily basis
- Use your creativity and commercial acumen to translate business problems into structured analytical questions, and choose the most appropriate methodologies to answer these questions
- Constantly assess the status quo, find and discuss opportunities for optimisation, simplification and acceleration of current processes
- Clearly and confidently articulate decision-making rationale, solutions, methodologies and frameworks to team members and both technical and non-technical partners
- Pick analytically valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favouring iterative delivery that tackle the objective, not the ask
- Prioritize multiple tasks and workstreams simultaneously and own projects end to end
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
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
- Private Health 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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