Data Scientist II

Key Skills

Microsoft-Excel, Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, R Programming

Job Description

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Data Scientist II

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 Expedia Group Experience Platform provides powerful travel capabilities that help partners and developers to build and continuously improve the customer experience for every traveller and partner of Expedia Group. You will be defining and driving the analysis, measurement and optimization of our core platform services, including Launch Platform, Core Shopping and White Label Template.

This will be an individual contributor role partnering with product managers within the Brand Expedia Lodging Team. This role will be supporting key business decisions throughout the product development lifecycle that improves the user experience to drive bottom-line growth. This will involve target setting, uncovering customer friction points, hypothesis generation and prioritization, experimentation design, valid and impartial test analysis and recommendations.

This role offers you:

• Challenging statistical problems, a business that loves to test and learn, and billions of data points
• A community of analysts all working together in an environment that encourages innovation
• Personal growth (conference attendance, skillset expansion, job rotation, etc.)
• An industry that impacts millions of travellers around the world
• Exposure to senior Product, Technology and Data leaders
• What you'll do:
• Work directly with product managers and technical specialists to create, plan, and analyze product experimentation (A/B testing)
• Serve as a trusted partner, working collaboratively with various teams to perform analysis and provide insights, and maintain regular communication to update partners on progress made on projects
• Build and operationalize robust dashboards to automate recurring analyses by partnering with global product & engineering teams
• Structure problems, extract and analyze data, and present the findings to corporate leadership and internal customers
• Assume end to end ownership of key analytical projects

Who you are:

• 2+ years of work experience doing quantitative analysis to solve business problems
• A Bachelor’s degree in at least one science, technology, engineering or mathematics field
• Experience in statistical/predictive modeling, computational systems, or operation research and optimization techniques
• Experience of A/B testing
• Experience with data sciences tools such as R, Python, etc. SQL and Excel experience is required
• Experience with web analytics tools i.e. Adobe Analytics, and experience with BI tools i.e. Tableau, Power BI
• Strong analytical attitude and skills, including the ability to break down complex scenarios into constituent parameters
• You can communicate the results of analyses in a compelling way to business users
• A sharp focus on getting results and insights using the most practical and fastest approach
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for making an impact along with strong attention to detail