Senior Data Scientist, Expedia Group
Product Analytics
$161.5-226k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $258,500.00 based on performance
Online travel shopping company
Job no longer available
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$161.5-226k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $258,500.00 based on performance
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent logical thinking
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, engineering, operations research, data science or similar
- 6 years of experience in industry or equivalent
- Experience creating and analyzing drivers of performance metrics
- Demonstrated ability to work through complex business problems and implement suitable solutions
- Ability to use and interpret machine learning models such as propensity modelling and forecasting techniques
- Creative and analytical in thinking with a love for data, to both disagree with and convince senior partners backed by data
- Strong stakeholder management skills for senior leadership
- Experience in web analytics using tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics
- Experience with large datasets and proficient in SQL and another programming language (e.g. R, Python)
- Excellent verbal, written and data visualization skills
- Ability to prioritize among conflicting demands and be comfortable with ambiguity
- Sharp focus on results and strong attention to detail
What the job involves
- The Performance Insights and Measurement Strategy team leads product performance related strategic analytics and customer experience advanced insight, ensuring that top level understanding of performance and the resulting decisions are being made are off the back of sound data and analytics principles
- This results in simplification, efficiency improvement, consistency and clear accountability on product performance measurement
- As a senior data scientist in the team, you will work closely with our Brands and Product teams in leading our efforts to understand performance of our products
- Examples include investigating weekly performance trends alongside automating our capabilities for understanding and detecting changes in core metrics and communicating metric performance to senior leadership
- Carry out weekly analytics of core performance metrics with a focus on understanding the drivers of conversion
- Identify opportunities to leverage advanced analytics methods to develop a deeper understanding of performance for example through increased segmentation of metrics
- Understand the interaction of key metrics and their relationship with strategic and performance goals
- Exploratory analysis to identify friction across the funnel impacting metrics, and quantify the business impact of this
- Collaborate across the Centre of Excellence team to define how we embed new metrics into our experimentation culture
- Define a strategy for anomaly detection alongside the data visualization and engineering teams
- Work with the wider product analytics team at Expedia Group to get a deeper understanding of our performance
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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