Data Scientist II, Lodging Offerings 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?

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.

Introduction to team

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.

Traveler Benefits is core to Expedia Group's strategy - that is, we want travelers to trust they’ll find the perfect fit at a competitive rate. As a member of the Hotel Supply Analytics team, you will leverage data and analytics to improve the depth and quality of our lodging offerings: Member Only Deals, Package, Mobile, Opaque, Merchandising Campaigns… and many other promotion types, that will ultimately impact millions of travelers around the world.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Data Scientist to provide valuable insights and decision-making support to Expedia’s leadership while partnering with Analytics, Account Management, Brands and Strategy and Transformation colleagues.

In this role you will:

• Analyze: Drive decision-making by developing sophisticated analytical models. Illustrate key business trends through effective data interpretation and visualization. Build reporting to be used by Expedia Group leadership.

• Advise: Develop an in-depth knowledge of relevant data sources and business intelligence to become a data-driven advisor to the business.

• Present: Clearly and concisely present strategic recommendations.

• Collaborate: Establish trust and a collaborative working relationship with Analytics, Account Management, Brands and Strategy and Transformation colleagues. Proactively and directly engage with partners to assess existing and upcoming project needs and maintain regular communication on progress.

• Take initiative: Display a proactive mindset, strive for continuous process improvement, use critical thinking to propose innovative solutions.

Experience and qualifications:

• You have a Bachelor’s/Master’s or other advanced degree in Engineering / Mathematics / Hotel Management / Business or another similar technical field.

• 3+ years' analytical experience, including SQL database querying, use of Tableau, Excel, R, Python or equivalents, which are a must.

• Understanding of advanced statistical/predictive modeling.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity and self-motivation.

• You strive in collaborative environment and are a team player, ready to share knowledge and help others.

• You have a growth mindset, continuously seeking to learn.

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