Data Scientist, Expedia Group
Product Analytics
Online travel shopping company
Open for applications
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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?
- We are seeking an experienced Product Analyst to join our Product Analytics & Experimentation Team to partner with product managers and focus on user experience optimization
- If you are a self-starter and have shown success in using analytics to drive innovation and user engagement, this position is for you!
- 3+ years of experience in data science and analytics preferably in ecommerce industry, with at least Bachelor's in Mathematics, Science, Statistics, or in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
- Experience with large datasets and proficiency in SQL and another programming language (e.g. R, Python)
- Experience and/or understanding of the AB testing methodologies + familiarity with data exploration and visualization tools like Tableau
- Display strong domain knowledge, business acumen, and critical reasoning skills
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present the business value of analysis concisely and clearly and an understanding of stakeholder management skills
- Ability to perform in a high-pressure, dynamic environment and be comfortable with a high level of ambiguity
- Curiosity, passion for making an impact, can-do attitude and strong attention to detail
What the job involves
- As a Data Scientist II, you will support critical business decisions throughout the product development lifecycle that improve the user experience for millions of travelers
- Your role will involve uncovering customer friction points, hypothesis generation and prioritization, experimentation design, impartial test analysis, and recommendations
- Apply your knowledge with Python, R, or any other major ML programming language
- Write code in a way that enables efficient and accurate translation into a data pipeline
- Conduct hypotheses testing, design and analyze complex A/B tests
- Frame business challenges as an analytics problem and a concrete set of analytical tasks
- Pick analytically valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favoring iterative delivery that solves for the objective, not the ask
- Communicate across various levels of the organization, tailoring your messaging to the audience and filtering relevant information
- Manage stakeholders with frequent communication, expectation management, meeting deadlines, and the backlog
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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