Data Scientist III - Product Analytics

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?

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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.

Data Scientist III, Product Analytics

Are you excited by the opportunity to pioneer the future of travel? Do you want to redefine the way people plan, search for, and book their travel? At Expedia Group, we believe that travel brings the world together, and we are passionate about the endless possibilities. This role is a great opportunity to join our global Product Analytics and Experimentation team where we are user experience optimization obsessed! The Product Analytics team focuses on using the power of data to improve the customer experience throughout the Shopping path on all Expedia Brands. A role working cross-functionally to deliver great features to our customers on the Expedia brands. As a Data Scientist III in the team, you will partner with our Product and wider Analytics teams in to understand performance of our products. Examples include identifying new success measures, automating elements of our reporting and using advanced analytics methods to drive new test hypotheses.

Key responsibilities include:

• Understanding the interaction of key test and learn metrics on the Lodging at Expedia Group 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
• Partnering with Product stakeholders in end to end feature deployment
• Working with the wider product analytics team at Expedia Group to get a deeper understanding of our performance
• Implementing a measurement framework on a subset of our property pages, defining success metrics and the levers we can apply to improve overall page performance.
• Lead on Experimentation Product Analytics, partnering with our Experimentation team to measure health of experimentation.

Who you are:

• Excellent logical thinking, a very strong background (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree) in a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, engineering, operations research, data science or similar and 4 years of experience in industry or equivalent.
• Experience creating and analysing 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.
• 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.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets