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Senior Data Scientist, Analytics

Geplaatst 18 nov. 2024
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2 tot 5 jaar
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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.

Senior Data Scientist, Analytics - Hotel Product

Expedia is striving to revolutionize the way people search and book hotels and their trips. For this mission, the Lodging team is the pioneer and focal in changing how people around the world shop and purchase travel. We’re looking for a passionate Senior Business Analyst with a strong product development and marketing mindset to join our Lodging Product Analytics team. This position will focus on improving user shopping experience and site engagement as well as increasing conversion and profit through actionable analytics.

This role will challenge the candidate to understand and contribute to many aspects of development of the Hotel business, including product innovation/user behavior, test and learn (A/B as well as multivariate tests), opportunity identification and problem investigation. If you are focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the innovation and user engagement of a product, this position is for you. Passion for analytics and product development and innovation is a prerequisite. Your primary focus will extend well beyond pulling the data and crunching the numbers. You will tackle complex business problems by converting raw data into meaningful and actionable business insights.

What you will do:
  • Deliver analysis support to the Lodging Shopping team surrounding property level content, e.g. images, hotel details, amenities, free offers, user reviews.
  • Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data with a singular goal of profit maximization and a focus on actionable analytics.
  • Engage with multiple departments across the organization to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.
  • Inform, influence, and support decision-making for Hotel/Product.
  • Function independently with little to no supervision, proactively taking ownership of key analytical projects.
Who you are:
  • Ability to work through complex business problems with a consultative approach.
  • Strong analytical/modeling skills and the ability to convert raw data into actionable business insights.
  • Expert proficiency in Excel and knowledge of SQL is required.
  • Understanding of AB testing methodology, advanced statistical/predictive modeling, and optimization techniques is highly preferred. Experience with tools such as R is preferred.
  • Experience with Business Objects and/or Tableau is highly preferred.
  • Experience with web analytics tools such as Omniture and Tealeaf is highly preferred.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and data presentation skills are a must.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
  • Ability to prioritize among conflicting demands in a fluid environment.
  • Experience with Hive and Hadoop is preferred.
  • At least two years of professional work experience.
  • Master’s degree in a Business/Statistics/technical field or related discipline preferred.
  • Experience in an analytical role in an e-commerce, technology company, investment banking, or product management is preferred.
Core Competencies:
  • Technical/Job Competence - Understands duties and responsibilities, has necessary job knowledge and technical skills, keeps knowledge current.
  • Communication - Communicates well both verbally and in writing, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas, listens carefully.
  • Problem solving - Takes initiative to identify and solve problems, involves and manages necessary people and resources.
  • Personal Effectiveness - Produces outstanding results by being proactive and committed, focusing on achieving positive results.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.

Our aim is to revolutionise travel through the power of technology! We are the largest online travel company in the world. Our travel brands offer adventure seekers the world’s most comprehensive selection of exciting travel backed by industry leading technology and a worldwide team of passionate employees who focus on creating the best travel experience for our customers. We power…


Our aim is to revolutionise travel through the power of technology! We are the largest online travel company in the world. Our travel brands offer adventure seekers the world’s most comprehensive selection of exciting travel backed by industry leading technology and a worldwide team of passionate employees who focus on creating the best travel experience for our customers. We power bookings for some of the world’s leading airlines and hotels, top consumer brands, high traffic websites, and thousands of active affiliates through Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN).

We love solving problems and creating ideas. We want to push the frontiers of technology and find the smartest solutions using our collective intelligence to simplify big ideas, relentlessly seek out opportunity, take risks, act with speed, and always find a way to get the job done.

Expedia, Inc.’s companies operate more than 150 travel booking sites in more than 70 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Japan, and China so we’re truly global in our outlook. We are looking for people that can demonstrate a focus on innovation and a passion for seeking new opportunities. We work with many brands under Expedia so we’re looking for people that can show commercial acumen and spot those crucial opportunities for growth. Our people have a curious mind and the courage and passion to challenge the status quo.

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