Advertising Yield Analyst / Data Scientist

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated, and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Advertising Yield Analyst / Data Scientist

The Traveler Business Team has a mission to deliver the most convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world. This division has responsibility to build and drive the growth of our global consumer business across our Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands, and across all our lines of businesses including Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech.

Introduction to Team

Every week, millions of travelers browse Expedia Group’s websites to research and book their next amazing vacation. This presents a huge opportunity for partners to reach and inspire a wide audience of travelers. In Media Solutions Pricing and Yield, we leverage our analytical skills and business acumen to grow our advertising revenue through pricing and inventory optimization. We are a collaborative, dynamic, fun, and a growing team, which collaborates with product, operations, finance, and sales giving us visibility into opportunities and how they are interrelated.

In This Role You Will:

• Drive the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions
• Deliver ad-hoc analysis and use visualization techniques to communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders across multiple organizations within Media Solutions
• Sharpen your skills in many of today's data technologies and tools including Tableau, JupyterHub, Python, and Looker.
• Support new product implementation, strategic initiatives, and performance analysis focused on driving revenue growth
• Ensure accurate source control, documentation, testing, and quality assurance processes are established, implemented, and followed to maintain high data integrity
• Partner with analytics, sales, product, data engineering, and finance teams to implement scalable solutions for ongoing measurement and optimization of key metrics
• Make strategic recommendations to drive monetization and develop solutions that communicate performance metrics, illustrate key trends, and deliver complex business analytics.

Experience and Qualifications:

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business field such as Mathematics, Business Administration, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Media, or equivalent experience
• You demonstrate professional experience with both developing analysis and communicating actionable insights from data
• A background and knowledge of advertising or marketing is required, with experience in digital advertising, e-commerce, pricing, or revenue management preferred
• Experience with large data sets, SQL (or SQL equivalent), and big data tools/languages
• Solid understanding of Data Visualization methods, with experience developing in tools such as Tableau and Looker
• Experience communicating complex data to various stakeholders is preferred
• You are a high-performing individual who consistently applies and enhances the analytics capabilities and approaches to solve complex business issues
• Proven ability to work through sophisticated problems, manipulate and analyze large data sets, and recommend solutions to stakeholders
• Able to connect data analysis to practical application and implementation for a commercially-minded organization