Data Scientist III, Analytics

Key Skills

A/B Testing, Analytical and Problem solving, Data science techniques, Looker, NoSQL, Python Programming, R Programming, SQL, Tableau

Job Description

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.

Data Scientist III, Analytics

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.

The InsurTech team at Expedia is responsible for managing the InsurTech P&L and driving its strategy and business development efforts across the Expedia Group globally. We deliver millions of dollars of incremental revenue making a direct and meaningful impact to the company's bottom-line. At the same time, we increase customers’ confidence to book travel and make difference in their lives.

Introduction to team

This role is an excellent opportunity to join the InsurTech Analytics Team where we are passionate about delivering outstanding user experience! We power and deliver product analytics, user behavior analysis, experimentation, and visualization services that enable highly tailored and optimized experiences using the scientific methods and applied insights. We’re looking for a highly motivated individual to join our team to help us formulate business strategy and to deliver impactful analytics insights. If you enjoy using data to build business cases, solve business problems, improve ongoing business activities, and to work on a team that functions as the “business owner” you will fit right in. In this role, you will use your analytical and business skills to inspire product, engineering, finance and customer support, and our strategic partners to prioritize, implement and scale our product ideas

In this role, you will:

• Provide strategic analysis and insights for the InsurTech business, while actively looking for opportunities to grow the business

• Own end to end process in evaluating A/B or multivariate tests to improve learning; proactively uncover opportunities and recommend new features for test and learn; evaluate and apply alternative methods to supplement randomized testing

• Performs advanced statistical analyses on experimental data to identify trends and derive actionable insights

• Apply your expertise in data modeling, quantitative analysis, data mining, data visualization with a goal of improving customer experience and business results with a religious focus on impactful analytics, steward product team to drive insights

• A high performing individual contributor who consistently applies and enhances the analytics capabilities, best practices and processes to solve complex business issues and identify opportunities

• Function independently, assessing existing and upcoming business needs

• Works with data engineers to ensure best practices are implemented through experimentation platform

• Effectively communicates statistical findings and insights to stakeholders and collaborate with product development teams to integrate statistical insights into decision-making

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's, Masters or PhD degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics, Engineering or 5+ years’ data analytics experience in a business context

• Strong analytical/modeling skills with ability to convert raw data into measurable insights

• Able to structure / work on data exploration problems, with innovative ways and solutions, bringing to bear strong reporting and data visualization skills

• Strong hands-on experience in SQL

• Proficient in building data visualizations (Tableau, Looker, etc.)

• Intermediate (or better) knowledge of Statistics

• Experience with R, python, or other coding language a plus

• Experience with web analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics a plus

• Experience in modeling selection, building and evaluation

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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.

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