Data Scientist, Expedia Group
Channel Analytics
Online travel shopping company
Posted today
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
- 5+ years experience in a similar analytical role
- 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
- A high performing individual contributor who consistently applies – and often enhances – the analytical capabilities, principles and playbooks to solve complex business issues and opportunities
- 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 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Scientist III to join our Media Analytics Team
- You will tackle sophisticated analytical and business problems with a focus on using statistics and data analytics to understand and improve the ways we work with marketing partners
- In this role, your keen interest in marketing analytics will help us solve tough problems and influence positive change
- This role will have a focus on Media marketing channels (e.g. Linear TV, Connected TV, Sponsorships and Streaming Platforms)
- You will own relationships with our stakeholders and partner closely to plan and execute a programme of work that delivers actionable insights
- You will be working with data and applying advanced data science techniques in a fun and stimulating environment
- There are a variety of exciting projects that you will work on to drive business strategy
- Your insights will be used to enhance our channel strategy and competitiveness, optimize our investments and improve profitability,
- You will work closely with other highly-skilled data scientists across Expedia Group, as well as colleagues at various levels of seniority across Marketing, Finance and Product
- You will partner closely with our digital marketing teams to understand the challenges they face and provide them with solutions
- Apply advanced analytical techniques, statistical knowledge, machine learning, and big data handling skills to support our commercial stakeholders’ decision-making
- Use your 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 work autonomously to prioritise and execute on the most impactful analytics projects
- Influence partners and senior leaders through communicating across various levels of the organization using clear and compelling storytelling and presentations
- Prioritise multiple tasks and workstreams simultaneously and own projects end to end
Application process
- End Date: February 21, 2025
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.
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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
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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.
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