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
- Excited by the opportunity to pioneer the future of travel
- You want to redefine the way people plan, search for, and book their travel
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- Managing reporting and the reporting pipeline of experimentation impact
- Working with the wider product analytics team at Expedia Group to get a deeper understanding of our performance
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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