Senior Data Scientist, Expedia Group
$173-242.5k
Potential to increase pay up to $277,000.00, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Online travel shopping company
Job no longer available
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$173-242.5k
Potential to increase pay up to $277,000.00, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent logical thinking, a very strong background (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree) in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, operations research, data science or similar and 6+ years of experience in industry or equivalent
- Expert with Python, Scala or R, or any other major machine learning programming language
- Expert in statistical analysis and experimentation, segmentation, computational systems, optimization techniques and interpretation of machine learning models such as propensity modelling and forecasting techniques
- High performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior data scientists, interfaces consistently with product & tech leadership, leads complex and vaguely defined projects, and stretches into team leadership skills
- Creative and analytical in thinking with a love for data, to both disagree with and convince senior partners backed by data
- Excellent verbal, written and data visualization skills
- Ability to manage projects with different functions (product, strategy, engineering, etc.), prioritize among conflicting demands and be comfortable with ambiguity
What the job involves
- This will be a senior-level individual contributor role where you will partner with various teams in product, data, engineering, strategy, finance and other analytics teams to understand and improve performance of our products.
- Examples include optimizing our experimentation strategy, identifying new success measures, sizing opportunities and using advanced analytics methods to drive new test hypotheses
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, ML programming, data visualization with a goal of improving customer experience
- Own end to end process in designing and running complex experiments (A/B tests, Pre-Post, Interleaving), proactively see opportunities and recommend new features for test and learn
- Collaborate across the analytics community to define how we embed new metrics and methodologies into our experimentation culture
- Lead key strategic projects within the shopping experience to support goal setting, opportunity sizing, product performance review and ultimately 2025 EG product strategy
- Work with multiple stakeholders, manage product analytics projects, and operate within a community of analysts, sharing findings, wins and methodologies
- As the most senior individual contributor in the team, raise the bar in prescriptive and predictive insights across product analytics, leading by examples and coaching more junior analysts
- Influence action and results, through clear writing, in an accessible way for a wide audience. Structure presentations around a clear and concise narrative, present clearly and engagingly, anticipating questions
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
- 401K Plan
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life 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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